Small Clicks converting analog to digital

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I recently tried porting a cassette to a cd using CD creator 5. I used the line in on my stock sound card and the recording wasn't too bad, but the conversion did produce small artifacts similar to the sound of dust on an LP. Is this something that would be corrected with a better sound card? I have a number of analog recordings I would like to convert with good fidelity. Would I be better off purchasing a CD recorder for my stereo setup or would a better sound card solve the background clicking?

TK
 
Try enabling DMA on your hard drives. Also, close all applications that are running in the background, except systray and explorer.

Also, make sure you have defragged your hard drive before you try recording.

If none of this helps, post back and other things can be tried, but these are the main offenders.

Good luck.

Ed
 
I''ve also found that clipping during the recording process can cause these clicks. If you have a digital editing program normalizing the track may get rid of these clicks. Also a basic computer sound card may not convert the analog to digital signal efficiently, thereby causing these clicks.
 
Thank you for the advice.

I tried turning off all the little programs that get started on my system automatically, and I did check to see if DMA was turned on. I haven't had a chance to defrag the drive yet, but I am recording onto a second drive that is new and used exclusively (till now) for capturing video through the firewire port. The clicks are still there though they are perhaps a bit diminished. It's hard to tell. My system is a 500 mhz K6 with 256 megs of RAM. The hard drive is a Western Digital 40 GIG that supports ATA 100, but I don't think my system does. Should this system be able to do analog to digital recording OK provided the sound card is decent?

Terence Kelly
 
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