Recording From Vinyl To MP3 (Help!!)

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dj_cuba
Creature Of Codeieia

Registered: May 2001
Location: England, Leicester: The great cesspit of the Midlands

Recording From Vinyl To MP3 (Help!!)

Hey Peeps

I've Just brought a turntable for recording vinyl onto my computer, seeing as decent trance is rarely released on cd singles these days

The problem is that I have two left/right Auxillary output leads on the back of my turntable, and I need to convert it into a stereo line in jack so I can plug it into my soundcard.

At the moment Iam having to connect my turntable to some real shitty pc speakers and then from the headphone jack to the line in on my soundcard which gives shit quality sound.

Basically I need advice on how to connect it up

All advice appreciated

p.s Iam also having trouble with pops/crackle appearing in the recordings, I have just brought a top quality stylus to stop this happening but it's still there, any advice on this would also be appreciated

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Jun-08-2003 11:47 United Kingdom

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tc-fan
dancing galaxy

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Cubaleah , FL USA

well you should get new needles....get some 60 dollar ones or higher...also it just could be the record it selft..

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mute79
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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: in transit

buy a rca to 1/8" converter and connect your turntable directly to line in of sound card... the recording will be really quiet because you're not going through a mixer, but thats fine since you can then edit the ripped track with software (ie. wavelab etc.)...

Jun-08-2003 15:31 Serbia

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nickmahoney
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Aug 2002
Location: filthadefia

i suggest purchasing a PreAmp from radio shack.

a standard setup will be RCA connections (red n white phono plugs) that go into a mixer's phono input. a phono input on a mixer is different than an aux or a line input because it boosts the week signal by almost 20dB (if i remember). if you are gonna skip on the mixer (egad!) you can pick up a preamp.

then pick up whatever adapter you need to convert to the 1/8" stereo plug (standard small headphone plug), but dont get the adapter at radio shack. there adapters are notorious for low fidelity and shitty quality. better off at guitar center or even circuit city if you cant find them anywhere else.

pops and crackles may be a side effect of noise from not grounding the turntable. with no mixer, i can see how you could forget to do this. make sure you ground the table.

also, make sure when you go to volume properties you go to advanced and select RECORDING. then be sure to mute the mic by clicking on "select" under the line in control. sometimes a nonmuted mic can be confused for low fidelity.

good luck
cheers
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Jun-09-2003 00:17 United States