> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:38:09 -0500 > From: Dan Drake <dan at dandrake.org> > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 at 09:31AM -0500, Steve Linabery wrote: > > I see from google (all hail google) that someone has already addressed > > the problem of the RIAA curve when recording from a turntable to a > > soundcard. > > Is this a software-only solution? 'cause I would have thought you would > just get a separate phono preamp, or pipe the signal through a receiver > that has a phono preamp built in. A software-only solution would be > nice. You can't get something for nothing. In this case, it is my opinion that you will lose a lot of information capturing without a phono preamp. To capture properly, you must never overdrive your inputs past 0dB. And yet, with no preamp, the high frequency components will be much larger than the low frequency components. This means you'll necessarily have to either interpolate the low frequency signal and enhance any noise that occurs in that region, possibly even aliasing the noise into higher frequencies. Depending on the quality of the vinyl, turntable, needle and cartridge, you may want a VERY good preamp or just a cheapy. Radio Shack makes one for $25, and you can spend over $1000 if you like. Chris _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list