On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:06:05 +0000 (UTC)
Tony Houghton wrote:

In ,
Davey wrote:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:21:21 +0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie wrote:

Alternatively, you might want to look at using an Ion U-Record,
just under 30 squids from Amazon. Its a USB stereo ADC, accepts
line-in or MC pickup levels and is powered off the USB connection.

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I had seen adverts. for Ion stuff, but was wary due to many bad
reports of their slide and negative copying devices; I just made my
own, from a couple of cardboard boxes and Sellotape, and have
successfully digitised hundreds of slides for a History Society.

Behringer also make this sort of thing. I think they have a good
reputation among audio people. I bought a UFO202 a few years ago; I
can't remember how much it cost, but I'm pretty sure it was less than
£30. I've never had any problems with it.

Sounds interesting. I see it for £30 or £46 !

I just tried to open Audacity on my laptop, and it fails, and of
course, I can't find what I see in any of the Help files.
I get:
"audacity: pcm_plug.c:388: snd_pcm_plug_change_channels: Assertion
`snd_pcm_format_linear(slv-format)' failed. Aborted"

I think I'll stop there, unless this means something to somebody! I did
the Reset Preferences procedure as described in the Wiki, but it made no
difference.
--
Davey.