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>Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:26:16 -0500
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Bradley Gano <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: digitizing audio for PC (hardware recommendations wanted)
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I am looking for recommendations for PC hardware (sound cards, I imagine)
for digitizing audio of medium-to-high-quality.

For our very high-quality needs (such as recording original materials in
our digital audio recording studio for use in commercial-quality products),
we will be investigating expensive hardware such as that made by Digidesign.

However, I am trying to find a cheaper solution for our computers being
used by faculty to develop less quality-intensive materials, for example,
web-based course materials. For software, we want to use CoolEdit (we're
also investigating Sound Forge and some others), but it's the hardware that
has the problem. Right now we're using the sound cards that come with our
Dells (a variety of them, including TBS, Yamaha, and some others), but they
all have the regular old 1/8" "walkman-style" speaker and microphone jacks,
inviting noise problems. Does anyone know of a better sound card that might
let us use RCA inputs or something else along those lines? What are you
using for audio digitizing at this level?

(Of course, this quandry makes even a PC-user like me long for a nice
PowerMac 8100 A/V, but I really am hoping to find a PC-based solution.)

thanks,
Brad


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Bradley Gano
Assistant Director for Technology
Center for Language Study
Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/cls