vinyl to cd

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think i've found a site to help me out!
see i have around 2500 33 1/3rd's that my wife would like me to put on CD. but i don't know how to hook my turntable to my computer. then how do i burn em on CD?

thanks in advance for any help

hougie
 
This is actually as easy or hard as you make it, depending on the quality you want. I don't know too much about it but the one time i did it I did it this way :

1:

Got a lend of the CD version of one of the LP's I was copying

2:

Looked at the wave display of the first track on this CD in Cool Edit and saved it to my HD

3:

Took a stereo line out of my turntable, into my mixer, and out of my mixer into my soundcard. ( I realise you may not have a mixer, but maybe this will help anyway )

4:

Recorded into Cool Edit and adjusted gain and EQ on mixer and stereo until Waveform looked like and sounded something like the 'test' waveform I had saved to HD

5:

Reduced vinyl 'crackle' using Cool Edit. ( Don't overdo this or you will lose sound quality)


This is by no means the right way to do it, but for my purposes ( making my girlfriends mother happy ), it worked !



If you want to get more involved there is a guy called Graeme who does this for a living. You can find him on the Cool Edit forum.

http://forums.syntrillium.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=15&CAT_ID=4&Forum_Title=Cool+Edit

This guy knows his stuff.

pAp.
 
Yeah, this is an easy process. You will need to put a mixer between your turntable and your computer.

TURNTABLE>MIXER>COMPUTER.

If you do not have a dj mixer, you could rent one from your local electronics store.

So... record your various songs onto your computers hard drive, using a program like Sound Forge, Cool Edit, etc...

If you don't have an Editing Program to use you can get one from this SHAREWARE site.

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/

Once you have recorded the songs as WAV. files, you can burn them onto your CD.

Here is another site you could refer to for more info on that and various other recording topics.

http://www.studiocovers.com/articles.htm

peace...:D

spin
 
Hougie, you probably figured this out already, but the reason you need to put a mixer between your turntable and your sound card line-in is because turn tables put out a weaker signal than the standard line level used by most stereo and recording equipment.

If you do not want to buy/rent/borrow a mixer, and if you have a good stereo receiver, there is another easier way.

Just hook the turnatable up to your recievers usual "Phono In" (assuming it has one). Then run a line from the receivers "Tape Monitor Out" (or Tape Out) to your sound card's line in. You will need to adjust your line-in input levels on your Soundcard, done through software.

Things to watch out for if you do this:

If your receiver is noisy (static), you will pick that up and there will not be much you can do about it.
If you pick up a low "hum" there may be a ground-fault problem between the receiver and the computer (actually this can happen with a mixer too).

2500 albums? See you in a few years....
 
Let's see here:

Rent a mixer: about $50 a day?

Convert 5 LPs to Cd's every day.

Number of Days: 500

Cost of renting mixer? $ 25000

Look on wife's face? Priceless
 
thanks R White and David K.

lucky for me, i have a mixer but, not the time.

think i'll teach her how to do it........NOT!!!!
 
:D LOL :D @ DavidK's post

spin

p.s. Mixer rental is about $5 a day.

peace...
 
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