Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 2009/3/30 Sean Gibbins <sean@???>:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered
>> this issue or at least something similar.
>>
>> Basically I have a Pro-ject Debut II turntable hooked up to a Pro-Ject
>> Phono Box II USB phono stage. This latter device has a USB output that
>> shows up as a Burr-Brown USB DAC when probed by alsaconf or similar. By
>> selecting this device and using audacity or gramofile I can rip vinyl
>> albums and singles to .wav files, for subsequent processing and
>> compression to ogg vorbis audio files. The most convenient and
>> consistent way to do this has proved to be using the following process:
>>
>> 1. boot laptop running Puppy 4.11
>> 2. attach Pro-Ject Phono Box II USB to usb port
>> 3. run alsaconf and select this device as the sound card
>> 4. run [zmixer|alsamixer|sgmixer|...] to set the recording level
>> (although this seems to be totally ineffective)
>> 5. run gramofile
>> 6. record the signal
>> 7. process the signal
>>
>>
>
> You should not need alsaconf.
> Just plug the usb device in and run "alsamixer" (The dumb terminal
> one, not the gui one.)
> Options for startup could be
> alsamixer -c0
> alsamixer -c1
> etc.
> Once you find your usb sound card, try to set all the levels to 0dB gain.
> If it only shows percentage values, you are a bit lost then.
>
> Then, record your sound without changing volume levels.
> You should get the best recording without any distortion. You can then
> adjust the levels later in an audio file editor if need be.

I will give that a go James but I am /pretty/ sure I have already been
there somewhere near the start of the quest!

Perhaps it's a peculiarity of Puppy but I am certain that it only saw
the laptop's onboard sound /until/ after I had run alsaconf and selected
the Pro-ject/Burr-Brown device. Without doing that it defaults to the
onboard microphone - just like the old days when I recorded onto a mono
cassette deck from my dad's radiogram! Maybe I missed an option somewhere...

Anyway, I have been around a few circles on this one and have a single
to rip so it's no bother to give it another go.

Thanks for the input!

Sean


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