On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:44:21 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

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?

A very small one I would have thought. I can't remember the last time
I saw a circuit that didn't simply follow the waveform out of
limiting.

d