----- "Fritz Meissner" <meissner.fritz(a)gmail.com> wrote: Okay, I purchased the little soundcard UA1EX. And it works just out of the box with an ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop I have. Just plug it and ALSA sees the device. Here is a proof that it works: http://dl.free.fr/cLQMzkUEp/tarrega_em-study_96khz_24b_stereo.wav.bz2 It's a little Tarrega's study in Em for the classic guitar (it's public domain music, 100% legal to post). I just plugged a cheap microphone directly in the UA1EX microphone port, and recorded at 96KHz (hell, 96KHz! are you insane recording people? we are not bats!), 24b, stereo. Then I post-processed the file slightly with ffmpeg to increase the volume and here is the result wav file. As you can hear, we hit the noise floor pretty well, but I didn't expect too much with the quick setup. In the future I will plug an amplifier in the RCA connectors of the UA1EX. It was just a quick and dirty record session (and as you can hear, the piece is played too fast and with the wrong emotion in it, namely: stress). Anyway, thanks for the suggestion Fritz, it was the perfect device I wanted. A bit long to come because the model is "superseded" by the more recent UA1G. But I could get one, so that's nice. Thanks! Cédric.