getting vinyl records onto a computer

[wolfspyder]

Can anybody tell me what the set up i need to copy records from vinyl to a computer.Once they are on there i know how to burn them to cd

[pimp0]

U need to hook up your stereo to your audio card input with the proper cables, then U need a proggie called LPripper to rip the separate tracks (in real time), then U can encode the wavs to mp3

[wolfspyder]

I know i need to connect to my sound card but what cables do i need. Cheers

[VILLA21]

A lot of stuff here:

h**p://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~abcomp/lp-cdr.htm

[zver]

Or you could use search next time>>click on it when you need something>>>usually works faster http://forum.cdrsoft.cc/showthread.p...hlight=records

[GeTe]

Getting the LP sound from the ampli. into the computer as a wave-file can be made with most burnerprograms or better WaveLab or CoolEditPro or 2000. I use a TerraTec PhonoPreamp getting its driving power from the gameport of the soundcard and then to the line-in of the card. The preamp is directly connected to the turntable. In Cooledit you can then insert cuepoints and split the recorded track into diff. songs. There are a lot of diff. plug-ins available for CoolEdit and you can get them from different sites on the web. Use any of those plugins for cleaning (very important) up your wavefiles before you burn them. This gives in my opinion the best final result to burn but takes me a lot of time. There are some "automatic" cleaning programs like Steinberg Clean 3.0 but I find the final result better when you can control the cleaning to your own taste.

[zver]

As my contryman said above nicely<but if you dont have preamp,use your existing sound sistem ampl,its better than nothing>>will work fine for usuall tasks>Use sound forge or cool editpro,cose can do dc offset(get it from cdrsoft)>or liao kai.Dont plugit directly from phono to comp(nothing will happen..but wont work cose voltage is low,also think about that could be mm or mc .Mc phono is usually more expencive,more sensitive,but much better sound,Should have switch on amp.Also,regulate input up to 0db>>not over that(got meters on all of tools..eac,feurio,cooledit,wavelab,sf,.........And for last,clean app from steinberg is not the best,but is much faster then other>Globally,quality will depend on how much time wanna spend on editing,later

[Master]

Simply connect the line out (tape out) connector of your stereo amplifier to the line in connector of your soundcard. You will find adapters in every good HiFi store.

And now i hear the crowd screaming ..ooohhh NNOO

A soundblaster 16PNP ISA will be good enough for some testings. Even the creative recorder and wave editor will do it too.

[zver]

Well well well<if a creative is in the game then i guess is nothing wrong with windows sound recorder>This excelent app got""SMALL"limitation connected with lenght of files,you can workaround this with every good audio editor,or use new hardware appliance called RADIO

[Master]

Not thewindows sound recorder....the recorder of the creative software package.

btw. i am still using a Thorens TD320 with a Denon DL110 moving coil pick up

[zver]

I did understand perfectly first time thats why i said if youre going with creative rercorder,you can go with windows sound recorder aswell..creative aint much better imho>>+you got windows recorder installed allready Just if youre going with regular output and cheap sound cart consider dc thing..its a must for recording process,specially for below average sound cards

[zver]

All right,first things first>>why i dont like creative???Its a bad kind of company,for example,they taking drives from good names company,like plextor,ricox,yamaxa,selling as theirs and advertising it,when people find out that they buing it like crazy,in meantime they switched on another syplyer and selling some bul**** drives,or whats happened to me is??Creative made 128 card as Poko said above,which is good card>>>imho for that money you cant buy better card for shure.I bought top model in that time from creative 512pci which was 2 expensive,and 128 sounded better ,same case now as Poko said above;128 got better response than platinum>>ok,fr.response is not everything,since 99%people cannot hear more than 18khz>>even that is quite more than average>btw im telecomunication technician,and was working some acoustic project for my company where i work((from 537 people only 18 passed the border of 18,75 khz,and they were all younger than 40 years>>which mean you can use 18 khz filter on lame and get smaller size>>cose i checked with sf5,and my mp3 were up to 22khz>>encoded with lame 3.89<to finish about sound card,poko choice is good,but check first if you need high quylity audio eq.Check the turtle sound cards too>>They are >>GOOD<<really good,and for last,but not least,check technics phono(model below)1200>>standard choice for djs since shoved up long time ago>>>with this one cant go wrong>>100%recomended

[GeTe]

I'm working with an some years old TerraTec EWS64S card. Works pretty well but it is with ISA bus. I have other cards with PCI-bus but is there any reason for me to change. I have also a SoundScape Elite soundcard but that one is ISA too.

[zver]

I would say go with german(tt is german card>made in germany)you got that allready,and you can alwaus change it..it is old,but who cares(my friend got it with his p2),and still works>>i think

[Master]

Use your german sound card with a turntable made in switzerland only

@zver 18000Hz is a lot for a 40 year old man.. the most 35 years old humans are only able to hear up to 16500...maybe 17000 Hz.


for the fans of old european hifi equipment: