Guilty about the ludicrous number of gardening mags she consumes, Swim
bought me a couple of hifi comix yesterday (I'm actually so 'off them',
these days!) and in one of them I saw a mention that attenuation of signals
for computer recording purposes should be done 'pre-computer' because the
software 'volume sliders' wreck the sound quality.....???

Anyone care to confirm or deny this and would this mean it is best to leave
the sliders 'maxxed out' if one is attenuating 'pre computer'?

Anyhoo, moot AFAIAC, as I can not get a recording from my vinyl setup
without having the slider set at the absolute minimum or I get clipping, as
anyone who has bothered to listen to any of the wacky clips I post from time
to time**, will tell. So I'm plotting to construct a little attenuator which
I envisage as not much more than an Alps pot in a little box with phono
sockets IN and OUT, wired accordingly.

Too simple? Am I missing summat here? (Like everything you buy seems to have
a tiny little resistor stuck in it for some reason!)



**On that subject, I notice no-one has had a go at my truncated'name that
tune' clip:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keit...aughtybits.mp3

Too obscure or just too ****ty a recording, eh?

;-)