Help with Audacity on Kubuntu 8.04

[Mark Fraser]

On Friday 19 September 2008 03:58:43 Rick Knight wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to record some vinyl using Audacity and having no success. I
> have an Audio Technica USB turntable with line out. I have the line out
> connected to the line in on my sound card. I can play the vinyl through
> my PC speakers but I cannot get Audacity to record it. In Kmix I have
> the record input set to line1 and line1 is not muted. In audacity I have
> the record source set to OSS:/dev/dsp, same setting for playback device.
> At one point I thought I had it working, but it turned out the mic input
> was not muted and the mic was picking up the sound from the PC speakers
> and recording that. When I muted the mic and made sure that the only
> source was line1 and that it was not muted, I got no recording again.
> Recording from mic seems to work while recording line1 does not. Can
> anyone tell me how to get Audacity to work?

Have you tried using the USB connection? I've got an ion USB Turntable and all 
I had to do was select the correct input in Audacity and click on the record 
button.


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