From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heitzso Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:21:21 +0000 Subject: Re: maudio audiophile 24/96 Message-Id: <4408A541.2060101@growthmodels.com> List-Id: References: <43E42B45.2060301@growthmodels.com> In-Reply-To: <43E42B45.2060301@growthmodels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org envy24control was the solution to my problem. It allows reasonable control of my 24/96 audiophile card. I'm recording straight into audacity and cleaning the individual tracks from there. Thanks > >> I'm trying to convert my collection of cassette tapes over to CDs. >> I purchased two nice used tape decks off ebay. The nicer of the >> two is connected to my computer, which is a recent model >> athlon64 3000+ w/ 1G RAM. >> >> Sound was very rough captured with 'arecord' through the >> computer's built in sound chip so I bought a >> maudio audiophile 24/96 from newegg to get a clean dac. >> But my common Linux mixers don't know what to do with the >> maudio and I feel I may have purchased a fancier audio card >> than I know what to do with (most mixers certainly don't know >> what to do with it). > > > I don't see an answer, so I'll note that I have done many tapes and > records by using "rec" from the "sox" package, using CD sampling > rates, and saving each side of a tape or record to a single wav file. > Then I use "audacity" to find and split off each track, do any > required processing, always normalize the volume, and save. > > At that point I can use lame for mp2, create ogg files, write .inf > files to burn CD (usually won't fit), and I personally run shorten on > the original wav files (lossless compression) and save them to DVD in > batches. > > My experience has been that I am able to get most pleasing results > doing the best rip I can without mixing, then editing the output as > needed, and being able to go back to the first rip if I don't like the > ouput, or find a better tool. > >> >> kmix does a reasonable job of picking up and labeling the >> inputs/outputs/controls. But I don't know how to use them. >> >> I'd appreciate being pointed to: >> email list >> forum/irc >> doc url >> that might help me out. >> THANKS >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >> linux-sound" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > >