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| quineska |
I've bought several records which I listen to (sound quality's better). I want to record these digitally, preserving as much of the sound quality as I can (I want to use it so I don't wear out my records). What can you recommend in terms of:
1) Turntable
2) sound card
that won't break the bank. |
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| DJ Joshua H |
if you just using the tt for playing and not spinning than just get a cheap direct drive tt.
If you want good sound quality you should invest in a top notch pair of needles and a good soundcard.
For the needles look at ortofon or shure and for the soundcard look at m-audio. |
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| J:\Digital |
| quote: | Originally posted by quineska
1) Turntable
2) sound card |
Any deck that will hold Pitch.
any sound card that has a wide frequency range. 20hz to 20Khz usually. (something that has Line in) so you can record in Stereo. Most PC have something of this sort, (laptops not so much). |
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| quineska |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Joshua H
if you just using the tt for playing and not spinning than just get a cheap direct drive tt.
If you want good sound quality you should invest in a top notch pair of needles and a good soundcard.
For the needles look at ortofon or shure and for the soundcard look at m-audio. |
Thanks for that...do you know if these sound cards support 96khz/24bit recording? |
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| DJ_Hailstone |
If you only need to record vinyls digitally, you can buy any turntable, but you need quality cartdridge and stylus.
I recommend you Shure Whitelabel or Ortofon.
Are you a DJ btw? Because if you are, it would be better for you if you will buy a good quality turntable, usable for spinninī too.
For soundcard, I think good choice is Sound Blaster, if you need the stereo Line-In (2xRCA), buy the Platinum version. |
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| Mwd |
| i have a brand new rolls phono pre amp for sale....for use with connecting your turntable to your computer |
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| quineska |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Hailstone
If you only need to record vinyls digitally, you can buy any turntable, but you need quality cartdridge and stylus.
I recommend you Shure Whitelabel or Ortofon. |
All I have at the moment is an old Hitachi, but it sounds alright with it's old accompanying amp (I definitely need a pre-amp for the computer, but I'm worried about distorting the signal). I'll see about getting a better stylus for it.
| quote: | | Are you a DJ btw? Because if you are, it would be better for you if you will buy a good quality turntable, usable for spinninī too. |
I'm not interested in DJ'ing, but I would like to get a decent turntable.
| quote: | | For soundcard, I think good choice is Sound Blaster, if you need the stereo Line-In (2xRCA), buy the Platinum version. |
I already have an SBLive5.1, but I'm not too happy with the results. I was looking for something with 24bit/96khz input, so that I could preserve most of the record's sound without wearing them out through overuse.
I've found so far:
MAudio Revoultion 7.1
Terratec dmzx 6fire (beyond my price range).
Anyone's thought's on these? |
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| tranceDJ |
| I'd say for the turntable go for something like a stanton st-80. It's a DJ turntable but it'll be good for recording and in the case you ever want to get into DJ'ing then you'll already have 1 turntable for it. |
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| DJ Joshua H |
| quote: | Originally posted by quineska
Thanks for that...do you know if these sound cards support 96khz/24bit recording? |
I have the m-audio delta 66 and it does. i'm not sure about others. To find out more about soundcards, do a search on these forums because this topic has been discussed often. Also search the web and you'll find plenty of info about any soundcard you want. |
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