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Does anybody have any idea how I can connect a turntable to my
computer and get some music onto the computer from vinyl records?

Thanks for any ideas or help.

Wayne

[Trevor Wilson[_2_]]

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Does anybody have any idea how I can connect a turntable to my
computer and get some music onto the computer from vinyl records?

**If your turntable doesn't have a phono preamp built in (some modern ones
do, some don't), then connect the TT to an amplifier, which has a phono
preamp (some do, some don't). Then connect the tape out to your computer
sound card and you're away.

Trevor Wilson

[Bill Riel]

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Does anybody have any idea how I can connect a turntable to my
computer and get some music onto the computer from vinyl records?

**If your turntable doesn't have a phono preamp built in (some modern ones
do, some don't), then connect the TT to an amplifier, which has a phono
preamp (some do, some don't). Then connect the tape out to your computer
sound card and you're away.

To add to that - if you are using a notebook for capture, you probably
will need to get another sound card (there are several affordable USB
devices that work well). Very few notebook sound cards have a line-in:
most only have a microphone jack which is mono only.

Generally this is not a problem with desktop computer sound cards.

--
Bill

[Jenn]

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Bill Riel wrote:

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Does anybody have any idea how I can connect a turntable to my
computer and get some music onto the computer from vinyl records?

**If your turntable doesn't have a phono preamp built in (some modern ones
do, some don't), then connect the TT to an amplifier, which has a phono
preamp (some do, some don't). Then connect the tape out to your computer
sound card and you're away.

To add to that - if you are using a notebook for capture, you probably
will need to get another sound card (there are several affordable USB
devices that work well). Very few notebook sound cards have a line-in:

Macs do eg

[George M. Middius]

Jenn said:

Very few notebook sound cards have a line-in:

Macs do eg

Thnak's Jennn for, admiotong Jennnn that your clueless-about the
modern-corperate world Jnne.

[Jenn]

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George M. Middius cmndr _ george @ comcast . net wrote:

Jenn said:

Very few notebook sound cards have a line-in:

Macs do eg

Thnak's Jennn for, admiotong Jennnn that your clueless-about the
modern-corperate world Jnne.

LoT"s

[Bill Riel]

I wrote:

To add to that - if you are using a notebook for capture, you probably
will need to get another sound card (there are several affordable USB
devices that work well). Very few notebook sound cards have a line-in:

Jenn replied with:

Macs do eg

Yes they do - my wife has a Mac Book that is a very nice machine. I do
like Macs quite a bit (I'm typing this on an old iMac that we've had for
years) but most of my professional life requires the use of Windows.

I haven't used the Mac for any audio capture, but I have used a Toshiba
notebook to record some vinyl. For that, I have to use a USB audio
device because the sound card only accepts a mono input.

But it works well, and I've got some pretty simple software on the
Toshiba that I like for doing the capture/CD burning and possible
cleanup of the captured files, though I often find I don't clean them
much.

--
Bill

[Arny Krueger]

"Bill Riel" wrote in message

I wrote:

To add to that - if you are using a notebook for
capture, you probably will need to get another sound
card (there are several affordable USB devices that
work well). Very few notebook sound cards have a
line-in:

Jenn replied with:

Macs do eg

Yes they do - my wife has a Mac Book that is a very nice
machine. I do like Macs quite a bit (I'm typing this on
an old iMac that we've had for years) but most of my
professional life requires the use of Windows.

My daughter has a Mac Notebook. It cost her about 3 times what a similar
Windows laptop would have cost her. She paid $100s more for a MacIntosh
extended warranty. When she had a problem with it, she had to send the whole
notebook out of town to be checked out. The repair facility said - hey
there's a tiny dent in corner of the case, the machine is therefore abused
and we won't honor the warranty.

I don't think she's buying another Mac real soon!

I haven't used the Mac for any audio capture, but I have
used a Toshiba notebook to record some vinyl. For that, I
have to use a USB audio device because the sound card
only accepts a mono input.

Not only does the laptop input only accept mono, it also has too much gain
because it is a microphone input.

The good news is that USB audio devices that equal or better any laptops
line input are readily available and relatively inexpensive. One to avoid
is called the iMic. One to look for is the Behringer UCA 202.

http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--BEHUCA202

Probably on the shelf at your local Guitar Center.

[Marty Troum]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:36:05 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

Does anybody have any idea how I can connect a turntable to my
computer and get some music onto the computer from vinyl records?

Thanks for any ideas or help.

Wayne


Try this
http://www.adstech.com/products/RDX-...sp?pid=RDX-150
I've converted a large portion of my record collection using this
device.
Marty T.

[Bill Riel]

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Try this
http://www.adstech.com/products/RDX-...sp?pid=RDX-150
I've converted a large portion of my record collection using this
device.

What a coincidence: that's the same device that I use for capture. It
works well, and is quite cheap. I didn't care very much for the capture
software it came with though (I think it's Nero), but there are lots of
choices there.

--
Bill