Cheap PC recording

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This should work if your soundcard has a line in....you won't want to use
the mic input because it will probably distort the signal even when turned
down really low. If you can find a player that has a line out and connect it
to the line in of your soundcard this would work best....another option is
using the RCA outs from the record player into the mic input of soundcard
(you'll have to use RCA to 1/8" adapter)...Good luck!


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"George Gleason" <g.p.gleason@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:k1qVd.94519$Th1.67658@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Gantt Kushner wrote:
> > I have a friend who needs a cheap and easy (she is NOT
> > an audio professional!) way to get her old LP recordings of
> > Shakespeare into her computer to burn CD's. I'm not a
> > PC guy, so I don't have a Clue! What does she need?
> > It would be good to have a program that has the RIAA EQ
> > in it's software, since she doesn't have an actual stereo
> > amp for her system - more like a big boombox.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gantt
> >
>
> if she can play them on the boombox feed the headphone out to the
> soundcard in
> you will also need
> a 1/8 to 1/8 stereo patch cable, 7$ at radio shack
> use audicity
> a free recording program you can find with a simple browser search
> I did this set up for my 80 yo parents to put thier 78s on cds
> george

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Gantt Kushner wrote:

> I have a friend who needs a cheap and easy (she is NOT
> an audio professional!) way to get her old LP recordings of
> Shakespeare into her computer to burn CD's. I'm not a
> PC guy, so I don't have a Clue! What does she need?
> It would be good to have a program that has the RIAA EQ
> in it's software, since she doesn't have an actual stereo
> amp for her system - more like a big boombox.

Just having the RIAA curve somewhere in teh chain isn't enough if one
wants to get decent sound into the computer. The cartridge wants to see
a particular load, and that's why there are phono preamps. Some of them
don't cost much, and I think a similar question came up last year. There
are porbably good suggestions for inexpensive phon preamps hiding at
Google.

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ha

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In article <42262810.F66DF023@his.com> gizmo@his.com writes:

> I have a friend who needs a cheap and easy (she is NOT
> an audio professional!) way to get her old LP recordings of
> Shakespeare into her computer to burn CD's. I'm not a
> PC guy, so I don't have a Clue! What does she need?

Assuming she has a turntable, I'd recommend one of the USB sound cards
that has an RIAA input. It's really better to do RIAA equalization in
hardware ahead of the A/D converter than to record flat and equallize
the digital signal because the RIAA curve covers a large dynamic
range, more than you'd usually turn an EQ knob.

Here's a modest one from Terratec:

http://tinyurl.com/4n7hx


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