If you are sampling a cd; just rip it with cdparanoia. This way you don't have to convert from digital to analog to digital and loose quality. If using alsa, you should be using arecord and aplay not the sox play and record scripts. Too many people swear by the sox scripts and the default behaviour of sox is to use the oss emualtion of the alsa drivers to record which yields far from optimal results. Regards, Kerry. -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au