[LAU] how to record Gramophone?

[Grammostola Rosea]

Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> Jonathan Gazeley wrote:
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>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
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>>> frank pirrone wrote:
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>>>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
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>>>>> frank pirrone wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> garry.ogle at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> frank pirrone wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> I'd also look into Gramofile:
>>>>>>>>> for pop/click filtering and automatic breaking of a continuous 
>>>>>>>>> recording into "tracks" or songs.  It can be used for 
>>>>>>>>> post-processing the recordings you make.
>>>>>>>>>                         
>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>>>>> I'd recommend gnome-wave-cleaner for post-processing:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://gwc.sourceforge.net/
>>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> +1 for Gnome Wave Cleaner. I successfully digitalized 50+ years old 
>>>>>>> persian
>>>>>>> music LP's using this app.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Yeah, me too.  It's a fine program, but my reason for referring the 
>>>>>> OP to Gramofile was primarily its functionality for breaking a 
>>>>>> continuous recording into individual tracks or songs based upon the 
>>>>>> silence between as delimiter.
>>>>>> Anyone have another program recommendation for that operation?
>>>>>>             
>
> Gnome Wave Cleaner --> Markers / Mark songs
>
> Not sure if you can save all detected songs into multiple files at once though.
>
> Another thing about Gnome Wave Cleaner that I liked, is how efficiently it
> handled large files.
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> IMO, the problem is at the preamp level. If I had some more LP's to digitized
> today I'll certainly give a try using the amplified mics input of my Presonus
> Firebox firewire device. From the voice/singing recordings I made, I can say
> that the Firebox preamps sound excellent to me.
>   
>

Is it preferable to use the amp of the turntable or use an preamp like 
the m-audio DMP 3?

And how do you manage capture in ALSA, Ubuntu 9.04? I've no input signal 
on my dads pc yet
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