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2025-08-15 13:57:44
I just received this last night and my initial use attempt could not have been easier.I have a fairly large collection of vinyl LPs and singles and I'm finally getting to work with them again after many years. I'm using vintage gear I've kept over the years (Technics SL-D1 turntable, Sony TA-F40 integrated amp). I have a number of vinyl albums that are out-of-print, hard to find or not available on streaming services. I wanted to use the gear I had to rip the music from the vinyl to digital files.I decided to give this Driver Genius device a go, based on the positive reviews. I have a MacBook, but I really hoped it would work with my preferred Kubuntu-based Linux docked laptop system. I was not disappointed.I used the "Tape Monitor" output on the Sony amp as the source. The Technics turntable connects to the Sony's photo pre-amp input. I connected two RCA male plugs from the amp to the female RCA plugs on the Driver Genius device, and the USB connector into a USB port on the Linux laptop system.Audacity, the open source recording software, detected the device as a "USB PnP Audio Device. " I queued up an LP on the turntable, lowered the stylus, hit the record button on Audacity and the software immediately registered a waveform as the recording was made. Users can choose to save completed recordings to WAV or MP3 files (I chose WAV so they can be converted to FLAC). I only created a few files with this, but the sound of the resulting music is really great. Audacity provides a number of tools for improving and fixing your files.That's it. This is about as simple and easy as it gets from a user perspective, and this little device does everything I expected without a burp.
Dmak
2025-08-05 15:46:13
Works as expected, just follow the instructions.
RoxyK
2025-07-25 15:32:35
I had a difficult time getting this to work. The RCA connections don't work at all and the mini-jack works but intermittent distortion is heard while recording. It is silent when not recording. This one is defective, not going to try another one.
Erik L. Contzius
2025-06-20 12:23:36
My Tascam US-144MKII got "bricked" by Tascam due to the latest Mac upgrades, so I can't use it any more. So I need to get my old audio cassettes into digital form. I already own a Sony Walkman Professional with a good line signal.I read a bunch of reviews and it seems people rate this item lower because they're depending on free software with which to record like Audacity, which isn't Catalina compatible. But I don't use Audacity. I've been using SoundStudio for years. I also use GarageBand, so I had backup.I plugged this device into my iMac's USB (it's old enough that it has USB2.0 ports), the other end into the Walkman, pressed "record" and the line level is working perfectly. True plug and play. No drivers to install. It's like having a new audio in. And this thing is cheap! Great value!!
Formica
2025-05-27 21:17:55
I've recommended these to friends for streaming (before a lot of the DJ software made it easy to capture their audio directly) and they work very well to quickly add an audio capture device on Windows, Mac, or Linux. They are supported out of the box without driver installation, even on Linux, where it shows up as an ALSA device that "just works". The sound quality is fine, not audiophile, but absolutely acceptable for streaming. I wouldn't use one of these if I was, for example, archiving vinyl or something, but for general audio capture, it works well.The problem is that I have had two of them fail for no reason in the past two years. It's a twenty dollar USB device, so I can't really complain that much. But by way of comparison, I also have a Griffin iMic, which cost thirty three dollars ten years ago, that still works. It's a comparable product - albeit, it uses 3.5mm jacks exclusively - but apparently the build quality is that much better. It's been bounced around multiple houses, tossed from box to box and place to place, and it still functions as well as the day I bought it. But two of these VTOP USB audio interfaces have died on me in two years.
Michael D. Smith
2025-05-08 12:30:13
No issues with this item. It worked right out of the box. I used it to convert an old reel to reel tape to various digital formats. My apple laptop was able to communicate with the Audio Capture Card right away with not issues. As for the software, I used QuickTime to do the initial conversion to m4A format and then Audacity for the conversion to other formats of my choice. All that had a bit of a learning curve and I can't say I did it in the most efficient manner. But, it worked and there are plenty of YouTube video on how to convert with both QuickTime and Audacity.
Customer
2025-01-21 14:00:58
I needed to do audio capture from an old arcade machine. There was no true line level audio to intercept and capture so I cut the end of an RCA cable and used alligator clips to wire directly onto the machine's speaker. On my laptop I just plugged the capture card in, no installation needed. I already had Audacity so opened that and after a few seconds, the capture card became available under the input list as a microphone. I clicked monitor and Audacity was seeing the incoming audio. I set the volume of the speaker to get a good input level then pressed record. Very simple, the audio quality was really good.
Hermann Oeinck
2025-01-11 17:53:48
Kompaktes Gerät, einfach zu handeln. Saubere und klare Datenumwandlung und -übertragung
Camaral
2025-01-09 12:43:31
Funciona perfeitamente e a conversão de som é feita com muita qualidade
Marc Draco
2024-12-27 13:48:24
As of today, I've now managed to fry not one, not two but three of these bad boys.Which means they're either very bad (and I'm an idiot for buying another and expecting them to be different) OR I'm an idiot who really shouldn't pump the output of an experimental amplifier directly into the phono.Go on, guess.No really, joking aside (sorry Amazon, and you'll see I don't return them) I really amp working on a very experimental pre-amp and associated bit but I needed a low-cost digitiser that doesn't make more noise than the evening chorus-line at Crickets-R-Us.And amazing as it is, this thing really is that good. Compared to the Focusrite Scarlett Solo it looks a bit feeble but given the vast difference in price...Plug and play in Windows (no drivers required) and it gives you not two but four inputs on the stereo output. There's no mixer so if you wanted to mix down in real time you'd have to adjust that yourself but the point is that the Drivergenius is very good at what it does and really does compare well with much more expensive kit in terms of the audio it delivers.Works in Linux too - sort of - but it's hard to blame this hardware as Linux isn't known for audio and it's clearly not happy to play on my ageing i5 (8th generation) laptop - so two cores and 0-60 eventually.It's not pretty and it's not going to take a licking but for the money, this thing is just about impossible to beat.
Klient serwisu
2024-12-08 14:22:47
w prosty sposób przechwytuje audio analogowe np.z vinyli .
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