Audacity Forum

Dear Waxy, Thanks for all that great info. Sounds like either the Behringer FCA202 or the Edirol UA-1EX would make me happy (enough). I'll look into which I can get fastest; I'm kinda champing at the bit to get going. Impression I got from your email and the thread you directed me at is that I shoul...

P.S. to Steve... Someone over on the Apple Forums just pointed me at this: http://astore.amazon.com/bulletsandbonesinterfaces-20/detail/B000BQN8I4/002-2148056-5899263 Seems to have the phono RIAA preamp built in. So, if you definitely think I should be getting a dedicated premap, this looks attracti...

Dear Steve,

That's reassuring.

I'd just been planning to use the preamp (line out) from my stereo-- a mid-80's vintage Technics SA-104. You saying I'll get noticeably better sound from a dedicated preamp? (given my so-so setup, overall)

Thanks!

pax / Ctein

Dear folks, I'm looking for a good A-D converter for digitizing my vinyl. I want something that's decent, and definitely better than what's built into the computer. I'm able to throw a few hundred bucks at the problem, but I can't come close to affording "gold standard" quality like this: http://www...

Dear rockinron_1, I don't follow. In my experience with optical sampling (similar though not identical problems) sampling rate only affects S/N if the sampling rate is low enough that the noise is not fully resolved (this is almost always the case if someone is scanning film-- it requires upwards of...

Dear Folks, Follow-up to my previous post: Moving the temp directory to a partition on my internal drive *AND/OR* renaming it "audacity_temp" solved the tmp-directory-not-found problem with v1.3.5. I believe the problem was with the directory name rather than the location-- Audacity, by default, nam...

Dear Koz, Thanks for the heads-up on that. Is the same problem known to exist for eSATA drives? Also, might this have something to do with the tmp directory problem I'm seeing? At the present time, I'm not dealing with AUP files-- just doing raw captures of the vinyl and immediate conversion to FLAC...

Dear Steve, Well, FLAC is my ultimate format, and it doesn't know from floating point, so I guess it doesn't matter if I capture 32 vs 24. Even with v1.3.5, 24-bit is a little unstable (and I seem to have a tmp-directory-not-found problem to work out). So I'll try capturing in 32 bit and seeing if t...

Totally agree about backups. I've got 2 TB in various external archiving and backup drives. Also regularly burn archival DVDs that get moved offsite. My typical photographic file is the same size as a full audio album. 32 bit is actually pointless unless you plan on doing LOTS of manipulation; it's ...

Dear WC, Thanks for the info. I, too, doubt that I'll hear the difference between 44.1 and 48kHz, but it's also less than 10% difference in storage space, so it's cheap insurance on a little extra headroom. 32 bit vs 24 bit vs 16 bit interest me more. I've read some persuasive-sounding arguments tha...