"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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In article
, Don
Pearce wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:24:53 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article
, Arny
Krueger wrote:


Because of the LP format's inherent technical
failings, digitizing LPs is not all that challenging
of a task for even an one of those on-board audio
interfaces that comes with most motherboards.

In principle it is slightly complicated because of the
possibility of unpredictably high peaks. But in
practice this doesn't seem a problem in my experience
and 16bit samples should be fine if you allow for
enough headroom when setting the gain.


The unexpectedly high peaks are invariably ticks and
scratches, and it really doesn't matter if they overload
- they need removing anyway.

But if you overload the analogue section with a tick etc
isn't there a chance it will effect the prog material
immediately afterwards?

There's a chance the sky will fall. How many sky supports do you keep on
hand? ;-)

In general, modern gear recovers from overloads pretty fast.

If you've got an exceptional case, you can determine that pretty quickly by
looking at the digitized file.