looking for a few answers....setting up for digital recording of vinyl records

[Anonymous]

I am interested in converting old rock albums to digital on my computer and
then creating CDs. I have the turn table and the computer. Someone has
recommended Coyotes Groove Mechanic for editing. I haven't opened the trial
version of the software, yet.

My question is: Must I run the output of the turntable through an audio amp
before I connect to my two RCA jacks in the muti-media card on the computer?
Can anyone suggest preferrable software that I might use?

Thank you in advance.

[Joeketch Vonage]

Greetings,

Easiest way to do this:
use and old receiver or amp with phono input, connect the tape out jacks to
the line inputs of your computer's sound card. (so you have the necessary
RIAA equlization and a higher level output)
Then you can use programs such as adobe audition or sony sound forge or a
host of others to capture your audio. Capture it at 16 bit, stereo, 44.1KHz
sampling rate to make it cd compliant and save it in .wav format. I like to
use Adobe Audition as it has nice tools for cleaning up clicks, pops,hiss,
etc. Nero and Roxio cd packages also have basic tools. There are also
freeware and shareware software packages that have some of the same
functions.

I would suggest that you record each song as a separate file so it doesn't
take forever when you
do any processing with your software. After you have compiled your songs in
..wav format, burn them as an audio cd using the cd burning software of your
choice (nero, roxio, etc)

[DaveW]

Yes, you have to run the turntable thru a phono pre-amp to apply the RIAA
correction curve to the frequency output of the cartridge.

--
DaveW

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"Anonymous" > wrote in message
...
>I am interested in converting old rock albums to digital on my computer and
>then creating CDs. I have the turn table and the computer. Someone has
>recommended Coyotes Groove Mechanic for editing. I haven't opened the
>trial version of the software, yet.
>
> My question is: Must I run the output of the turntable through an audio
> amp before I connect to my two RCA jacks in the muti-media card on the
> computer? Can anyone suggest preferrable software that I might use?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>

[Buzz]

"Anonymous" > a écrit dans le message de news:
...
> I am interested in converting old rock albums to digital on my computer and
> then creating CDs. I have the turn table and the computer. Someone has
> recommended Coyotes Groove Mechanic for editing. I haven't opened the trial
> version of the software, yet.
>
> My question is: Must I run the output of the turntable through an audio amp
> before I connect to my two RCA jacks in the muti-media card on the computer?
> Can anyone suggest preferrable software that I might use?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
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My way of doing these things explained here:
http://www.a-reny.com/iexplorer/restauration.html


You'll also find there lots of links to similar web pages
explaining other methods

--
Allen Reny
http://www.a-reny.com

"Anonymous" > wrote in message
...
>I am interested in converting old rock albums to digital on my computer and
>then creating CDs. I have the turn table and the computer. Someone has
>recommended Coyotes Groove Mechanic for editing. I haven't opened the
>trial version of the software, yet.
>
> My question is: Must I run the output of the turntable through an audio
> amp before I connect to my two RCA jacks in the muti-media card on the
> computer? Can anyone suggest preferrable software that I might use?

Yes, unfortunately you do have to run the pickup through a phono preamp.
There are 2 popular ways of doing this:

1. Use an old receiver that has a phono input and a tape output. The main
problem is the space the receiver takes up, and the possible introduction of
EM pickup because the receiver is so close to the turntable.

2. Buy a separate phono preamp. I bought mine from www.mcminone.com. The
part number is 50-7770, and it cost me $20, on sale. It uses a wall wart,
so there's no hum problem.

3. Software? There's a ton of it on the market. I record using Waverepair
and edit using CDwave.

Norm Strong