Can i record my vinyl direct from my mixer onto my pc then onto c.d ?
Maplin have a deal on a USB turntable at the moment but I still believe it’s too expensive. Normal price is £119.99, on sale for £99.99. Offer good to August 7th 2007. If you subscribe to their email newsletter they will send you discount vouchers and you could save a further £7 (item over £75) so the turntable is £92.99 with the coupon. It comes with software to record the tracks off vinyl and also to ‘clean up’ the pops, cracks and hisses. Works for 33rpm and 45rpm vinyl. It will also allow you to record tracks from 78rpm records so your grandparents can listen to b*tchin’ sounds from the 30’s and 40’s on their iPod nanos! Go, Grandma! But any good deck with Phono (RCA White[L] and Red[R]) to 3.5mm stereo jack will do for a line-in socket on your PC sound card/motherboard jacks. I record my old tapes using Nero Soundtrax. It automatically detects the silences between tracks (you can vary the length of the silence detection). I’ve used Audacity in the past – trial version is free but
Yup, theirs plenty of software that will help automate for you. Considerations. Cable Sound card Mixer Vinyl condition, quality, medium quality Stylus condition Turntable Power supplies eg. Wall-warts. Generally you would be best using a turntable with direct drive and a heavy platter that’s got good sound isolation so its rumble free. The base the turntable sits on should have isolation from the surface it sits on and if possible the whole air space around the turntable be isolated from the outside world. Line noise or buzzing, this is all the mains noise that is leaking through the cheap shoddy components that make up your hi tech quality high value mixer, stereo, amp and power supplies. Wall warts are also noisy, it you can run a grounding rail from each device’s grounding pins to the other components an using metal cases to ground the whole setup will help. Cable, using cables that have independent grounds and are shielded will guard against any external line noise injection. This
