In-Line Encoding Vinyl to MP3 with IAudio U2

[mizrachi]

Last night I hooked my brand new IAudio U2 up to my buddie's amp using a cheap rca-to-mini cable. The IAudio U2 can encode mp3's on the fly and so we recorded about ten songs off of his vinyl collection onto the tiny IAudio player. I believe the rca-to-mini cable was connected through the tape-out plugs of his stereo. All seemed to go well. However, after plugging the IAudio into my computer via usb, the files sounded extremely bass heavy, the levels were way too high and the mp3's were basically unlistenable and useless. How, using the IAudio U2, do I correct this and enable on-the-fly mp3 encoding of vinyl to mp3?

 

[IpaqMan]

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Originally Posted by mizrachi However, after plugging the IAudio into my computer via usb, the files sounded extremely bass heavy, the levels were way too high and the mp3's were basically unlistenable and useless. How, using the IAudio U2, do I correct this and enable on-the-fly mp3 encoding of vinyl to mp3?

You should test out the setup by varying the line-in recording volume from 3 to 10 and play back each recording to look for distortion.

However, I have found that most flash players do not encode very well. It seems that only the Ripflash line and the HDAPs have the power and mp3 codec to encode as well as your PC.

 

[pianoplayer88key]

actually.... RipFlash Plus at 160kbps 32kHz does an automatic lowpass filter of 10kHz. It sounds ok for most things, but can get "tinkly" at the high end on some occasions. LAME, on the other hand, to my ear sounds quite good at 96kbps 22kHz.