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Thanks, Paraic. I noticed the help still said that if the path was empty, the user's home directory would be used, whereas an empty path will give an error. Also exchanged "e.g." for "for example" since there was space. ...

Hey WC, Thanks so much for your advice. I've followed your settings (I also resett the jumpers on the back of the Cakewalk) and it sounds much improved, hardness has gone and harmonics are improved as well :D With respect to the Quality settings in Audacity should I set both the 'Real time conversio...

... next, the first track doesn't play while the new one is recording. This means I can't record the second track in time with the first. Any ideas? Help would be very much appreciated :)

The harshness (too much treble?) could be due to lack of RIAA de-emphasis. Audacity has a preset curve in the equalizer to do this ... ... most records manufactured from the 1950s onwards are produced with RIAA equalization, a form of pre-emphasis which boosts high frequencies and reduces low freque...

... loads of assorted cables here and could probably stretch to buying some extra kit if needed. Is what I want to do impossible as things are? Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks. Diablo

I "rip" vinyl with the predecessor device to the UA-1g that you have (The Ediril UA-1EX) it has always produced excellent results. Why are you using such an insanely high Hz setting at 96 kHz ? I suspect that the "harshness" you are hearing may be down to the downsampling 96=>44....

... the windows sound control panel but I find nothing that corresponds to audio in my browser or other software source playing music. Thanks for any help. Jim

... more information about your set-up and what you are trying to record we have no idea what you are doing wrong. Please check your Audacity version (Help menu > About Audacity) Please read my previous post in this topic.

Hi I've recently attempted to record my record collection with mixed results. I'm using a very well set up TT into a standalone phono stage which in turn is then connected to a Cakewalk UA1G USB convertor, hooked up to my laptop using its own battery supply. I then ripp to Audacity using 36bit 96khz...

I wrote a plug-in that can help to semi-automate patching one channel with audio from the other channel.
It's available here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 42&t=53929