pslewis

NETTO are doing these things for £49:99 as from Thursday - normally £99:99!

I would love one but my nearest NETTO is 30 miles away!

D1CCY

The sound quality must be dire, and it could damage your vinyl.

Personally I can't understand why anyone would want to digitise their vinyl as it will always sound far better on a good T/T than CD ever can.

dpb

GaryK

I bought a numark one and I am well pleased with it. Its not about the quality or the 'warmth' for me. Its the practicality. Once all my vinyl is done I can sell it and now it gets played rather than sitting in the loft in flight cases.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Maplins is down to that price too. Nice turntable, but not up to my Linn

I went to buy a soldering iron, b4 anyone says owt

Alcazar

PeteBrant

Cos they have stuff on vinyl that they want to put on thier MP3 player?

ryn004

While you are it buy the USB Missle Launcher:


or the USB Hamster wheel:

(Connect it to your USB, the faster you type, the faster this Hamster runs!)

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I've got some rare old school house mixes on 12" vinyl that I've spent years looking for on CD or MP3 without success so can see the benefits of having one of these. In fact I was looking at the Maplin one only the other day. I haven't had a record deck for about 10 years so haven't heard the tunes for a long, long time.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

The USB Panic Button could be useful if you're browsing Scoobynet at work

dpb

RobinSherwood

It all depends how serious you are about your music.

Like some of the above I would never risk any of my vinyl on a turntable like that as there is a good chance it would never sound the same on a 'proper' high end turntable. After all that whole turntable costs far less than even a cheap hifi cartridge.

I would like to have some of vinyl on my MP3 player though so I am considering one of these or similar

Instant Music

Has anyone else tried one?

Robin

mrsteve

Alternatively you can get an analogue to digital converter, i brought one for my dad, record player to amp, amp out connected to a powered USB converter, usb goes into laptop,

Software that comes with it cancels out the noise (or increases it) same with the rumble, and it automatically rips it to Mp3's and seperates the tracks using the gaps in the record. thinkgeek.com

I actually have the usb missile launcher and its not bad along with the usb fish tank. (both presents)

im going to step back into my geeky closet now

pslewis

I have an analogue Record Deck ..... of reasonable quality, but like the idea of transferring all my records to digital.

wrxfox

i just brought a device that allows me to plug a tape player/turntable into a usb port and comes with all the software to rip music to the pc or cd.paid £30 at pc world .
rob

The Trooper 1815

iTrader: (31)

Ditto above, having a great time with some serious old metal.

pslewis

Where do you connect the Turntable into? a couple of phono plugs? Do you remember what the device was called?

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Yes, I'd be interested in this too?

Alcazar

RobinSherwood

I imagine the best place to connect such a device would be the Tape Out phono sockets as I doubt these devices will have a phono stage and if so certainly not one that would adequately deal with a Moving Coil cartridge. In any case the device would be more useful assuming no phono stage and connected in this way as it also means cassettes and reel to reel tapes can also be transferred.

Its something I have been thinking about but haven't yet got round to doing.

pslewis

Indeed, the signal voltages coming out of a Turntable and Tape Cassette are extremely low ...... maybe thats ok for the USB and it isn't an issue?

mrsteve

thats correct as the usb device wont be grounded either, the way the one i got works is that it goes through the amp (as normal) and out the tape out or as some amps have md out or rec out or whatever out you have.

tape out uses two phonos to usb device and that connects to pc through usb.

ThinkGeek :: InstantMusic Vinyl & Cassette Ripper

Cost me about £30 and i imagine the pcworld one is similar.

there are other ways of doing this but for simplicity and quality this is one of the best.

wrxfox

mine is a creative sound blaster. the tape player will connect with just phono leads a turntable may require an amp inbetween but still connects with phono leads.
rob

Sonic'

I just saw this device in PC Turd too

Not a place I normally frequent but had to nip to B & Q and PC Turd is next door, and wanted to laugh at how much DD 5.1 sound cards are

AsifScoob

Good call. I have been thinking about one of these. Tons of old vinyl that I was replacing slowly with CD, now with digital downloads.

Expensive way to do it.

I was thinking if I got one of these, I could transfer the old vinyl, then sell both the vinyl and the USB turntable, on EBAY or whatever.

I only have a sentimental connection to the stuff because I can't play it at the moment. Once I have it on MP3 and backed up, I would be happy to part with all of the old stuff.

Asif

AsifScoob

Exactly!

pslewis

Thats a good idea!!

You could probably sell that USB Turntable for around £35 secondhand - it's just cost you £15 ......................... excellent suggestion!

Freak

No room for another...
Already have three technics 1200s and a vestax handytrax.
When i record mine i do it direct to a CD recorder, then rip from cd if i want an mp3 of it

RobinSherwood

Now that sounds like a good idea! That should preserve more of the quality of the original and provide an additional backup should the vinyl disc become damaged.

What CD recorder do you use?

Freak

A sony twin tray one - dont have model number to hand-its the other side of the atlantic!
It is very good..