On Sunday 22 August 2004 02:51 am, Jason White wrote: > My main interest at present is in making archival recordings of > material that I originally recorded on audio cassette. My system > currently contains a C-Media CM8738 controller as part of the Asus > system board, which is recognized by Alsa. I assume that for quality > results I will need better sound hardware. I asked this question of a > local user's group last year and was informed that the M-Audio Delta > 66 is of high quality and has good Alsa support. It was further suggested > that one of the USB A/D converters could be useful as it would also > work on a laptop. > > Taking into account price, performance and driver support, what > options do you think I should consider? > > To connect to a cassette tape recorder is it sufficient to run a cable > from its audio output to the input of the sound card, or is an audio > isolation transformer also necessary (not sure where one would acquire > this but I have heard that they are sometimes needed)? > > There are informative reviews at http://www.linuxhardware.org/ but > they focus mainly on playback functionality rather than recording. > > Any suggestions for a newcomer to the field would be most welcome. > > Jason. Was the program originally recorded on a deck with noise reduction? I was just ripping some tracks from old old 4 track cassette masters that were DBX'ed. 2:1 expansion works for the "decoding". Dolby is a different story, it's more complex.
