2006-09-02 00:42:47 · 6 answers · asked by kevin B 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
The easy way is to connect your turntable headphones out to your pc mike in and record the vinyl with something like Audacity. The cable is available in most electrical stores.
You end up with two long tracks, one for each side of the record. You cut those into seperate tracks and 'export as WAV' to give a cd quality recording.
You can then burn that to cd with Media Player.
2006-09-02 00:51:21 · answer #1 · answered by sarah c 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm... Have never seen a turntable with a headphone output... Here's how you do it...
I don't know what equipment you have already. Stay away from kits if possible. Usually the lowest quality stuff. Here's my recommendation for the cheapest turntable that actually sounds decent without mods if you're starting from scratch... http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-AT-PL120-Professional-Direct-Drive-Turntable/dp/B00012EYNG/sr=8-4/qid=1157198977/ref=pd_bbs_4/002-7156183-0731223?ie=UTF8&s=electronics It has a built in switchable phono preamp. No need to buy a separate one or use a receiver with a phono input between the table and computer.
Basically you need a turntable run through a phono preamp connected to the line-in or mic in jack on your computer using a stereo 1/8" plug to dual RCA plug adapter. If you don't have a separate phono preamp, you can hook the turntable up to a receiver or preamp with a phono input and connect the tape outputs from the receiver / preamp to the computer. If you have a turntable, no preamp, and your stereo system is too far away from the computer... This is the cheapest preamp I'd recommend for good sound... http://www.phonopreamps.com/tc750pp.html It's a big step up from the $20.00 "cheapies" sold elsewhere. Lower noise and more accurate frequency response. Very worth the money.
Audicty is a good free program to record and cut album sides into CD tracks with. Set Audacity to record from line-in or mic (whichever connector you used) at 44100 Hz, 16 bit (CD quality) and save the files in the .wav format.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
The resulting files are ready to be burned to CD using any burning software.
There is a program called CD Wave Editor that was designed only for recording and chopping up the recordings into CD tracks. Quicker and easier to use than Audacity in my opinion. I put it here for you. http://www.filelodge.com/files/room41/1161563/CDWAV.zip Just click to download the file on the page that comes up.
2006-09-02 01:15:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab, contact www.magix.com
can be purchased @pc.world,QVC
2006-09-02 07:44:57 · answer #3 · answered by d@dz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
iwoot do a very nice USB turntable www.iwantoneofthose.co.uk
2006-09-02 00:45:54 · answer #4 · answered by big_fat_goth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all you need to do, is connet your headphone socket to your line in on you computer and use any sound recording software, even windows default sound recorder will do. all you need is one simple headphone to line in lead.
2006-09-02 00:51:53 · answer #5 · answered by paul o 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-09-02 00:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Connie H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋