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Today my boss asked me if I knew how he could record all his old vinyl onto cd - I know that you need some kind of cable but I don't know which kind. Is there a free downloadable programme that you can use to clean up any sound quality?

Any help appreciated!

Would be highly interested as well... Also for mp3'ifising tips...

All I know for now is you need to use some pre-amp or something (which seems to be not too expensive)

Take the line-out of the turntable, put it into the line-in of your soundcard and get recording. I think it's just a standard audio cable required.

Motz wrote:Take the line-out of the turntable, put it into the line-in of your soundcard and get recording. I think it's just a standard audio cable required.

you usually need a pre-amp too.

You can also use the line-out on your amp (if it has one).

There's loads of software out there but I can't remember any free ones. I used Goldwave (now Adobe Audition) but that isn't free.

Cool
But how do you get the vinyl turned into mp3(or whatever)? Which programme would you use?

everything you ever wanted to know here

or here
Depending on the results your boss wants.


Pat

ooooh thank you

I use Goldwave.

I have the turntable hooked up directly into the amp on my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, record in the whole side of the record, Normalise it to get the volume up a bit, maybe chuck an EQ filter on it to boost up the bass a little, then start cutting and pasting each track to save as a seperate wav file. Once I have all the wav files for each track of the album, then I use DbPowerAMP to convert them from Wav to 320kbps MP3s.

If you want to make a CD, then use the WAV files, not the MP3s especially if the album you are doing has tracks running into each other. With CDs made from MP3s there is a slight gap between tracks (even if you set it for no gap).