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On Nov 30, 6:32 pm, Bill Riel wrote:
In article b16337ee-ef63-4ca8-a7a7-
,
says...

Ok, now I'm just getting confused. Do I go with Instant Music, iMic,
or one of the other devices that's been talked about here?

I don't know what hardware you've got - if you would be so kind as to
list what computer you were planning on using, whether or not you've got
a turntable and so on it would be much easier to give advice.

--
Bill

Ok. I have a Dell PC and a tecnics turntable.

[Bill Riel]

In article 3396116f-257b-40a7-819b-9e5732c5fa80
@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com, says...

Ok. I have a Dell PC and a tecnics turntable.

Sounds good - do you have a receiver with a phono input? If so, you
shouldn't need any additional hardware (other than appropriate cabling).
You should be able to play your records on the turntable and run a cable
from your tape out into the sound card on your Dell.

You may want to get some software that helps with the capture/cleanup of
the records. There are a number of options out there, some of them free.

One shareware product that is pretty easy to use is called Spin It
Again:
http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/

It's not the most spophisticated software available for this purpose,
but it's very easy and the simplicity appeals to me.

Good luck!

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Bill

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On Nov 30, 6:51 pm, Bill Riel wrote:
In article 3396116f-257b-40a7-819b-9e5732c5fa80
@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com, says...

Ok. I have a Dell PC and a tecnics turntable.

Sounds good - do you have a receiver with a phono input? If so, you
shouldn't need any additional hardware (other than appropriate cabling).
You should be able to play your records on the turntable and run a cable
from your tape out into the sound card on your Dell.

You may want to get some software that helps with the capture/cleanup of
the records. There are a number of options out there, some of them free.

One shareware product that is pretty easy to use is called Spin It
Again:
http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/

It's not the most spophisticated software available for this purpose,
but it's very easy and the simplicity appeals to me.

Good luck!

--
Bill

You are very helpful! Yes, I do have a receiver with a phono input.
that's what it's connected to now. So, I need to cable from the back
of the receiver to the computer. Into the microphone jack? But I
will have to have software to capture the songs, right? I'm such a
novice at this.

[Bill Riel]

In article 1bd9776b-463f-4a57-81d7-ed50025e5a35
@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com, says...

You are very helpful! Yes, I do have a receiver with a phono input.
that's what it's connected to now. So, I need to cable from the back
of the receiver to the computer. Into the microphone jack?

No - you should plug it into the line input on the sound card, not the
microphone jack.

But I
will have to have software to capture the songs, right? I'm such a
novice at this.

I think you might be a good candidate for the software that I mentioned
above: http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/

The software has detailed instructions on hooking things up to your
computer and how to proceed with the recording. You can use the software
on a trial basis for 3 albums, after which you the software will cease
to work unless you buy it.

However, give it a try - I think you'll find that going through a couple
of albums will help you understand the process, after which you can
either buy the software or move on to something else.

The only thing that this software doesn't get quite right for me is the
song breaks on the albums. It's easy to go through after you've recorded
and set them correctly though, but it took me a couple of tries to
realize what was going on and to fix it.

--
Bill

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On Nov 30, 8:26 pm, Bill Riel wrote:
In article 1bd9776b-463f-4a57-81d7-ed50025e5a35
@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com, says...

You are very helpful! Yes, I do have a receiver with a phono input.
that's what it's connected to now. So, I need to cable from the back
of the receiver to the computer. Into the microphone jack?

No - you should plug it into the line input on the sound card, not the
microphone jack.

But I
will have to have software to capture the songs, right? I'm such a
novice at this.

I think you might be a good candidate for the software that I mentioned
above:http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/

The software has detailed instructions on hooking things up to your
computer and how to proceed with the recording. You can use the software
on a trial basis for 3 albums, after which you the software will cease
to work unless you buy it.

However, give it a try - I think you'll find that going through a couple
of albums will help you understand the process, after which you can
either buy the software or move on to something else.

The only thing that this software doesn't get quite right for me is the
song breaks on the albums. It's easy to go through after you've recorded
and set them correctly though, but it took me a couple of tries to
realize what was going on and to fix it.

--
Bill

Thank you very much! I will give all this a try and see what happens.

Wayne