PW> Hi Sven;
SP>> So I started recording a separate WAV file for every piece this morning
PW> I ran into the same sort of problems you did.  I was trying to put some
PW> old albums onto CD using a Yamaha 400t.  Spin Doctor's filtering
PW> routines were useless so I ended up, as did you, recording each track
PW> separately.
I have filtered only one WAV file with Spin Doctor this weekend and the 
result was worse than the original. The original was just a little biut noisy 
(kinda white noise) and after "filtering" it, it sounded like an old LP with 
losta cracks.
PW> I found I had to turn the screen saver off because it caused
PW> a miss in the recording, this I found out *AFTER* I cut the darn CD's!
Those buffer underruns are fatal. With the Easy CD Creator the bufferlevel is 
almost 100% when I`m recording from HDD. Once it went down to 18% after I had 
started the Internet News program. Ill never do that again, while Im cutting 
a CD.
PW> I have an oldish Turtle Beach Monterey sound card and used the A/D
PW> converters in that with excellent results.  I fed the card via an old
PW> Teac stereo eq I have and ended up more than satisfied with the
PW> results.
For "remastering" a tape (the signal to noise ration is about 60dB) that will 
definately do it. The ADCs on my soundcard (Terratech EWS64XL) have a nominal 
SNR of 90dB - hard to believe, that would be extraordinary good for a device 
with a switching power supply like a computer. The ADCs on my sound 
workstation have an SNR better than 110dB. I mainly used the workstation, 
because I wanted
to do some equalizing and adding some reverb to some of the pieces, which 
were recorded with very simple equipment.
PW> I agree with the comment on the computer, mine is a Pentium
PW> 100 with 32M RAM.  It works well but I can't do anything else except
PW> the recording - skips again.
I have 64Megs of RAM and editing a piece that is longer than about 3 1/2 
minutes (> 35 MB) is a pain in the butt. The undo thing takes evry long, 
since I can`t hold the copy in the RAM.
Take care     
             
             SVEN
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