Audio Recording: Voodoo?

[Les Posen]

On 03/07/2004, at 11:07 PM, Mac OS X for Users wrote:

> From: verduron <verduron at comcast.net>
> Subject: Audio Recording: Voodoo?
> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 08:22:19 -0400
>
> G3 - Blue and White - 300 MHz - 876 MB / MAC OS 10.3.4
> Recording audio cassettes to digital format.
> Using Griffin Tech USB iMic.
> The problem: after a while the sound becomes very scratchy and
> distorted.
> I was told to take the Ethernet cable off. I did, I recorded a couple
> of 90 minutes cassettes without a problem.
> But it started again. After rebooting the computer I thought it might
> remove the problem, but it did it again, after 50 minutes into the
> recording.
> Using a separate peripheral hard drive for the recording.
> There is nothing else on the drive. I did not de-fragment it, just
> reformat it before recording.
> I am now trying to record, using a direct connection to the computer.
> Not using iMic.

Which software are you using? what came on the CD with the iMic - if 
so, did u leave the RIAA equalisation (suitable for recording vinyl 
LPs) on? Or is the some other software in use to bring in the audio?

Les