Best sound card for recording LP's/Cassettes

[LS]

I recently bought a Gateway PIII 550 that came with a SB Live sound card. I've since discovered the joy of transfering my old vinyl LP's and cassettes to CD (using Easy CD Creator and Cool Edit 2000). Although the results are quite good I do occasionally get popping sounds on my home-made CD's. Since I'm spening so much time transferring stuff (I have a huge collections of LP's and cassettes), I want to know if I should upgrade my sound card. Is that the cause of the distortion? If I do need a better sound card what would you recommend? I don't mind spending a few bucks for good quality. Thanks in advance.

ls

 

[sonusman]

Nope. You need a program that will take the pop's out of the .wav file. I use a program called Ray Gun made by Arboretum.

.wav files occasionally get these pops. On a Mac system they don't seem to happen, buy for some reason they do on PC's.

Although, I have to admit that since I have upgraded to a 24 bit, 48kHz sound card I have seldomly heard these pops.

But there are many other factors that could affect this happening. Throughput of the hard drive, not enough ram, OS setting that are making the computer do something else while you are recording, too slow of rpm's on the hard drive, cheap software, etc.....

Good luck.

Ed Rei
Echo Star Studio www.echostarstudio.com