Another noob question.I asked a similar question on another board.Will there be a difference in sound quality between using an RCA to 1/8" jack to my laptop and using an audio interface such as a Firebox? It's coming from a cassette and it's already mixed.I don't need separate tracks going to the computer.
Cassette to Laptop
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Kevin Deschwazi
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Yes, the better the A-D conversion the better the audio quality.
How much of a difference is difficult to say, I'd try your laptop A-D and see what you make of it.
How much of a difference is difficult to say, I'd try your laptop A-D and see what you make of it.
Lo-Fi Mike
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I bought that little Behri gadget for my laptop - I don't usually use the laptop for recording but occassionally do rough or experimental mixes on it. I have used it to record from cassette and it does that job well enough.The behri is MUCH better than the built in BUT isn't brilliant - what you pay for I guess. At least it's freer of the electrickery used in built in cards to compenate for inadequacies.
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danny.guitar
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What kind of sound card is it, do you know?
A lot of cards use the same jack for both microphone and line in. It's just a matter of switching them in the Windows volume mixer/recording options. If Microphone is selected, it will use the mic/preamp, if Line-In is selected, it won't.
The product description only states 48KHz so my (wild) guess is that it only supports 48KHz, and if you select a different sample rate your software will just up/downsample on the fly and waste CPU.
There is a PDF manual you can look through to see if it says:
http://cachepe.zzounds.com/media/UCA202_ENG_Rev_B-11e3383fedd7c42e395e40e7a971b573.pdf