Help with Audacity on Kubuntu 8.04

[Mark Fraser]

On Friday 19 September 2008 19:08:26 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mark Fraser wrote:
> > 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.
>
> OSS?  That's been deprecated for a long time.
>
> >> 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.
>
> For which you'd actually _need_ a device that outputs to USB.

Which I thought he had from the first line:

> >> I have an Audio Technica USB turntable with line out.




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