old albums to cd

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i found some old albums that i would like to put onto a cd..i currently have a sb live value card and an hp8110 cd recorder that came with adaptec software. i'm not sure how connect the stereo w/ the turntable. with this software, am i able to record to the cd? i figure that i need to record them as wav files (???). any ideas on cleaning up the sound would be nice.
 
you can boot your turntable (or any other audio unit) into your sound card with one of two methods. First a couple of RCA to 1/4 inch adaptors and plug the thing into a mixer then to the PC. Assuming though that you have no mixer, you can nab a "Y" at even radio shack that will plug into your sound card. RCA to 1/8 inch. Yes, you will be best off converting to wav. format. this will let you monkey with it a bit to clean it up. from there ya... to the CD
 
When recording audio from a turntable, you must use a preamp that has a phono ground before going into your sound card. If you don't you will get a lot of static and other noise in your recordings.
 
ATTENTION!!!

Not only are you needing that ground that Fishmed is talking about (which is simple enough to do) but you need an input that deals with the RIAA equalization. If you don't know what RIAA is, well good thing you are reading this huh? :)

Try plugging in your turntable to another input on your stereo pre-amp some time. You will find that it has absolutely no bass at all. That is because when the LP was printed, a low end compression was applied to the music to minimize the bass so that the little bumps on the LP would not turn into Mt.Saint Helens (hey, I am from Portland Oregon, about 45 miles from that volcano, had to use it). Anyway, the low end is turned way down for the purpose of going to Vinyl. Then at the Turntable input on the stereo pre-amp there is a little circuit that boosts' this low end back up. That is what RIAA is, and it is what you need to happen BEFORE you start sending that signal to hard drive.

Possibly, you should think about using your home stereo pre-amp as a way to deal with RIAA issue, then use the tape record output and send it to your soundcards line input. In this case, none of the equalization from the pre-amp (except the RIAA) will make it to the tape record jack, and also the signal will be optimized for you.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

Ed Rei (not a vinyl guy at all! DIGITAL RULES!)
Echo Star Studio www.echostarstudio.com

[This message has been edited by sonusman (edited 09-22-1999).]

[This message has been edited by sonusman (edited 09-22-1999).]
 
I hope it works to just tack this on to the end -- I want to rip (correct jargon?) tracks off my old vinyl and burn it into CDs to play. I don't have a pre-amp, but I do have a regular ol' stereo amplifier available (w/ turntable, cassette, & CD plugged into it). If I redirect one of my "out" sets, such as the one for the cassette, into the sound card should that work OK as a preamplifier?

I assume I'll need to go to Radio Shack to get a tricky little cable to combine my big RCA jacks into a little stereo plug. Yes?

Also -- I'll need a new sound card, I think, since I can't find a stereo input on my old SoundBlasterPro. Is ripping from vinyl something that requires a high end card?
Recommended sound cards for this work?

I haven't been able to figure out which sound cards will accept stereo input. What's the magic jargon for the type of input I'm looking for? At first I'd thought this would be "line in" but now I'm getting the impression that's for mono.

Thanks for any help.
 
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