From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 23:21:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9A116A4BF for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz3.hyperreal.org [209.237.226.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3901B43F85 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 9626 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2003 06:21:02 -0000 Received: from localhost.hyperreal.org (HELO fez.hyperreal.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 19 Aug 2003 06:21:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 31813 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Aug 2003 06:21:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Aug 2003 06:21:00 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:21:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030814092314.P5892@fez.hyperreal.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost.hyperreal.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Subject: Suggestions for high-quality audio recording? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:21:04 -0000 I'd like to use my -STABLE system for recording line-level audio, leaving the A/D conversion to something *other* than the crappy A-D conversion done by most sound cards or motherboards with built-in sound. I've searched the freebsd.org mail archives to see whether anyone's been able to record with any sort of USB Audio device (using uaudio) and it doesn't look good. Another option is that the motherboard I've currently got in my workstation in the office claims to support S/PDIF in, so an offboard A-D converter might work - but I have no idea whether the S/PDIF in is actually supported or not, nor what bitrates it'll understand. Here's all dmesg tells me: pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x24c3) at 31.3 irq 5 pcm0: port 0xe400-0xe43f,0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xec182000-0xec1820ff,0xec181000-0xec1811ff irq 5 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: Right now, though, I can't even get this card to record off the mic in. Sigh. Plays fine, though. My Sony Vaio laptop can record from the mic, but only mono. Its dmesg says: pci0: (vendor=0x104d, dev=0x8039) at 8.0 irq 9 pcm0: port 0xfc8c-0xfc8f,0xfcc0-0xfcff mem 0xfedf8000-0xfedfffff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci0 pcm0: Anyways, recommendations/suggestions welcome. Brian