[linux-audio-user] GWC quits

[Daniel James]

> The hardware I'm running is an Athlon 850 with 256k RAM.

256MB, I hope :)

> The sound
> card is an SB16 ISA.

If you're attempting to do vinyl to digital transfer, using this card could be 
a false economy. Getting something like an M Audio Audiophile could be 
cheaper than buying the same music again on CD. Even a cheap emu10k1 PCI card 
like the SBLive would probably be well worth the upgrade. 

You'll also need a good turntable and pre-amp to get the most out of the 
vinyl. When weighing up the cost, bear in mind that the remastering people 
producing official CD re-releases will probably be working from studio master 
tapes, except for very rare or old material.

Personally, having looked at the time it would take to record all my shellac 
and vinyl, and allowing for the possibility that some subtle properties of 
analogue recording would be lost in the transfer, I decided to keep a couple 
of turntables around.

I'd probably make an exception for some rare 78's, like a couple of 1940's BBC 
transcription discs that I found in a junk shop. With hand-written labels, 
they seem to be field recordings from the days before tape was available. 
Their uniqueness and fragility makes a digital recording something I've been 
meaning to get around to.

Cheers

Daniel