[mdlug] Vinyl to digital

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Dan Pritts

> If i were doing this i'd probably have 
>  a) used a hardware preamp rather than doing it in software 

 I dunno. The only preamp I have is... well... not in the best of
condition, and wasn't the greatest item when new either. So I figured
I'd get the best capture by eliminating as many analog steps as
possible. Within my meager needs it seems to have worked out okay.

>  b) sampled at 44.1KHz - although my understanding is that your
>     basic consumer sound card (including some that cost $200) will
>     always sample at 48KHz and resample in software - so i dunno
>     that it makes any difference in the standard case.

 That was my reasoning. I figured I'd stick with the native hardware
sample rate, and if I need to do resampling later, I can do it in
software at high quality. (Tools like sox do a very good job, at the
cost of a lot of CPU.) I vaguely remember hearing that consumer
soundcards didn't always do a good job at that...

 Sincerely,

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