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What is the easiest way to get my LPs onto my computer for conversion to MP3 tracks.?
What minimum hardware and software do I need .I have a seperates Hi Fi system with turntable. Can I plug the Audio out from the turntable to the soundcard on my computer without any pre amplification or should I leave the turntable connected to the amplifier and connect the output from the amplifier which now goes to the input of the tape deck to my soundcard?
You’ll need 5 things:
1 A turntable (stating the obvious I know)
2 An amlipfier with a phono input (increasingly rare but an external phone stage can be bought for only £20) and a tape loop. If you don’t have this, you can use a headphone output (see later)
3 A computer with a sound card that has a line-in socket (you can use the mic-in socket if that’s all you have)
4 A cable, usually a 2xRCA phono to 1×3.5mm jack
5 Some software (More later)
Assuming the turntable and everything else is already connected up, connect the cable to the computer using the line in socket and connect the other end to the Rec/Out socket of the tape loop on the amplifier. If your amp doesn’t have a tape loop (most do and if it’s got a built in phono stage it’s really unlikely that it won’t have), you can use the headphone socket with a special adapter or cable that converts from a standard jack plug to a 3.5mm mini jack. If you’ve got an ’80′s mini system with a turntable, it probably won’t have a tape loop, but you can use the headphone jack. The cable or adapter can be bought from any electronics store (Maplins in the UK, Radio Shack in the US, can’t speak for anywhere else), it also comes free with Audio Cleaning Lab.
There is a range of software out there ranging from the professional Cakewalk stuff through to the freeware Audacity. I use something called Magix Audio Cleaning Lab. It’s a bit clunky to use, but has all the feature you’ll need and at £20 is pretty cheap. They all work much the same way though.
Once the software is set-up and everything connected, just play the album/tape as usual and start the software, it should register an input from the line-in and you can digitise the input.
Remember that this is a purely analog process, so there will be no track markers, gaps or automatic fetching of track names like there is for CDs, you’ll have to do all this yourself and it’s a time consuming process. You can also use this set-up to record stuff from internet radio.
To answer your question about connecting the phono output directly to your sound card – No, the output levels are far too low, it needs to go through the tape loop as you’ve suggested.
As an alternative, you might want to consider downloading the album from the internet. There are P2P services such as eDonkey or Kazaa that will have most of the stuff already digitised, saving you a huge amount of time. The services are free and so strictly speaking illegal, but I suspect that if you have the original album and you don’t share the download, then you will be OK (don’t hold me to that though, I’m no lawyer).
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