Wavosaur

[jonty]

One more point about soundcards.

You don't have to spend big money to get a high quality soundcard, I see older Turtle Beach soundcards on ebay quite regularly at very reasonable prices. The specs, even on the older models of TB soundcards are very good, more than enough for amateur recording of vinyl records.

The older soundcards go for such a cheap price because they do not have the latest bells and whistles such as 7.1 sourround and the the like built in. But we do not need such doodads for recording, what we need is a quality a/d converter, low noise, low jitter etc, things that even the older TB soundcards have.
_________________
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. -Richard Feynman-

[Wavosaur Main Developer]

Extract form my last post:

I worked with WamiRack (Ego sys), Motu, Sound blaster (from 16 to 128), integrated sc, etc. and the results are differents but in general good (with same sources or calibrated sinus).

The price difference between a SB16 and a MOTU 828 MkII is important... Very important! You could have very good results with SB16. It is like common tools: the most important is to know how to use it!
The advantage of MOTU is the preamp (not very good for SB16...), all the channels, 19' rack format, fantom power supply, etc etc. It's not the same tools panel.
Just in term of analog digital conversion the differences are difficult to ear with full scale calibrated sinus (for line input).
_________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wavosaur Main Developer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.wavosaur.com

[poivre]

thanks for the infos!
about the turtle beach soundcard ,are they better than a sb16 ? i always heard sb are crappy.
I saw the price for the MOTU soundcards, i don't have this budget loooks good !

[jonty]

[poivre]

$6.50 now that fits my budget
and what about their new products http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/riviera/home.aspx ?

[jonty]

[Rex]

i remember some old tracker that was working well with turtle beach soundcard.

Great article jonty ! very informative, i like the first picture

in this article you should edit the Wavosaur link to point to our website, it's not that i care having indirect link but when new versions are released, there's always a delay between the moment we spread the news about it and the moment other sites update their informations
i still receive new user's mails who have downloaded an old version with question about problems that have been solved in the 8000 :-)

thanks for these few hints!

[jonty]

[stron]

You can find a decent 'crack and pop' remover at www.droidinfo.com. Its free for a 30 day evaluation period. I find it really useful, but you must record initially in wav format for it to work on the analogue waveforms and then you can easily convert to mp3 etc. Give it a go you might be surprised.

[jonty]

I've tried De Popper, it's not bad at all.

The very best I have found is Click Repair..

http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~briand/sound/
_________________
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. -Richard Feynman-

[BlingMasterFunk]

I've just begun sampling some of my old vinyl for the first time. I'm going straight from the turntable to the soundcard. Is this a bad thing to do? The problem I have is that the buzzing from the ground is really loud when I normalize the sample after recording. How can I resolve this? Thank you.

[poivre]

I think you need a preamplifier (preamp) between the turntable and the soundcard. Which input did you use ? the microphone one ?

[jonty]

[poivre]

No news from BlingMasterFunk ?

[greg.kento]

hi everyone i have just one question: is vinyl not 96,000 khz?

i am also intrested in recording some old vinyl to cd and thought that vinyl was at 96,000 and cd at 44,100 khz?

please help, thanks

greg