Steve,

Thanks a lot! Your suggestion worked just fine.

Is there a way that I can hear the recording while it's in progress? All I
can see is a waveform indicating that the recording is in progress, but it
would be nice to hear it as well so that I know that everything is going
well (i.e. no skipping).

Cheers,

--
Akin

aknak at aksoto dot idps dot co dot uk

SteveB wrote:
It may be overloading the sound card line input and clipping the
signal. Reduce the recording control's Line In mixer level (not the
playback one) till it cleans up, then reduce it a bit more to give
some headroom.


"Epetruk" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
"Epetruk" wrote in message

Dear all,

I've recently been trying to convert some of my vinyl collection
to a digital format. I did the following:

* Got a connector cable with 3.5mm stereo plugs at both ends;

* Plugged one plug into the phono jack of my hi-fi and the other
into the line-in jack of my computer;

Here's where you made your mistake. The phono input of your hi-fi
includes what is known as a RIAA equalizer. It's basically a high
end cutoff filter. Try recording from the tape outs if it has them;
the headphone out if it doesn't. If neither is feasible get a
separate RIAA preamp - here is a web page with some alternatives:

Sorry Arny and everyone else who may be reading - I actually did
plug the plug into the *headphone jack* (I couldn't find any other
jack that would output sound that I could plug into). Unfortunately,
as I have already recounted, plugging into the headphone jack
doesn't solve the problem, and I
don't think the hi-fi has a tape out.

Any other ideas?