[Ham-Computers] Analong To Digital

Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:45:06 -0400

My solution completely gets away from all of the debate, opinions, this won't
work with that and so forth. No computer, no software, and no issues. No hard
drive space issues, no problmes with sound cards or anything else. It is stand
alone hardware and works beautifully. 	

I have recorded from a turntable to CD and from turntable to DAT to CD and the
results are first rate near professional quality. No computer generated noises
to filter and so forth. As far as I am concerned, using the computer and
software is a waste of time, effort and a constant headache. However, I am a
serious audio person, I spent three times as much for the stand alone hardware
as for the typical good software package needed for the computer. On the other
hand, I did not have to get a bigger hard drive, upgrade the sound card, fight
with new drivers and incompatability issues, buy a computer CD burner and so
forth. Frankly, the way I chose is less expensive, easier to use and eliminates
all of the hastles.	

I spent four months asking questions on how to with the computer. I never did
get any clear cut answers or how to procedures. I spent two hours making it
happen with the Sony RCDW10 unit.    	

To each their own, but this way wins hands down for me. 	

Duane Fischer, W8DBF	

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From: Brian, N8WRL <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Analong To Digital
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:46 PM

I may be missing something here but it seems like the CD Burner brand
problems and 'digitizing' your LP collection are seperate problems.

The CD Burner compatibility problem is one and I don't have any advice for
that. This seems to be a sticky subject and I've lucked out with my
PlexWriter.

The LP digitization is stricly A/D - connecting the line-input of your sound
card to your stereo (or even turntable directly? Need to check input
levels). You should then be able to record via your soundcard to files on
disk (WAV, MP3, etc.). It may be that certain CD Burner brands have tools to
help with this, but the basic process is the same - read an analog signal in
from the sound card, sample it fast to make a nice digital representation of
it, and write the bits somewhere. Disk, CD-R, whatever.

Keep in mind there is little to no magic here - you will be recording your
LP's as they're played - clicks and pops and all, Just making digitial
versions of those sounds. There may be tools that help to filter all of
these, but there is no way the end-result digital recording will be better
than analog signal that it came from.

GL es 73!

-Brian n8wrl

----- Original Message -----
From: "WB6BLV" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Analong To Digital

> Whatever you find out Duane please share with me,
> as I will share with you.  have been going in circles
> trying to put a 400 vinyl collection on CD, and a new
> and fast burner promised to do the job...what it did
>
> What it did was write to BIOS so drive C was not
> visible and i had to boot from emergency floppy.  The
> manufacturer sent me a LONG technical diatribe, with
> mainly useless specifications and parts tolerances!  So
> I am back to the IOMEGA burner and I note that they
> claim to have both analog and digital support for not
> only output, but for input!  Creative Labs tells me that
> the PCI512 card that I have samples fast enough to not
> produce any audible noise at up to 20kHz input, so I
> am going to try that route....problem...the PCI512 is
> usually a mono input card, though it has a two channel
> separate jack...so far Creative Labs has NOT been able
> to find documentation on digitizing two channel sound on
> that card.....the data stream to the CD burner must be one
> channel they claim, and the encoding determines the separation
> on playback...makes sense, but who on earht knows the
> encoding and how to set it up on the Creative Labs card?  So
> far, not Creative labs.
>
> Will keep you posted.
>
> Hope we both succeed!
>
> John
>
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