copying vinyl records to CD

Started by nlareau, December 17, 2008, 11:25:14 AM

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nlareau

I wanted to do this for a while.  Finally spent some time on it and found out it was a lot easier than I thought it would be.  No, I am not shilling for any of these companies.  Just pointing to the folks I used with no problems.

You need:

1) CD burner (CD /R works just fine for $30)
2) PC with audio card (nothing special)
2) Turntable
3) Stereo Receiver
4) RCA to 3.5mm stereo cable.

-- Plug the turntable into the receiver just like you normally do.

-- Plug the RCA end of the cables into the pre-amp out or the tape out outputs of the receiver

-- Take the RCA to 3.5mm stereo cable and plug it into the 'line in'.  Your audio card has three connector jacks, Line Out, MIC, and Line In.  You can either buy this cable from cablesforless.com for $7 OR if you get lucky, you can take the cable that runs to your PC speakers and use it.  Most PC speakers have two stereo RCA jacks and the other end is the 3.5mm stereo jack that plugs into your PC audio card's 'line out' output.  Just take that cable, plug the RCA end into the receiver and move the 3.5mm end over two slots on your audio card (line in).  Usually the symbol for line in is ((.)) or something.  Don't use MIC, it is way too sensitive and everything will sound distorted.

-- you can either use the Windows .WAV recorder that should have come with your sound card, or (recommended by me), go to DAK.com and buy the $19.95 Wav editor program.  Easy to use and makes it easy to separate the recordings into individual tracks and name them.  http://www.dak.com/reviews/2050story.cfm  All you need is the $19.95 basic editor, you don't have to have any of the other stuff.

The DAK tutorial is pretty good.  http://www.dak.com/reviews/Tutorial_LP.cfm

For under $30 I get high quality CDs from my old albums. 
The early bird may get the worm, but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.

coldfront

best part?  you get to still feel like a real audiophile cause the hisses, pops and clicks all make it over to the CD too!   ~roflmao

but seriously, when you can't find the CD version of some old, great, vinyl platters...this is a great way to go...