Scooby Snacks 23

Anyone out there who can do this? My dad tried to do this from his record player to his pc then burn a cd but it sounds terrible.

All I want is to have a couple of 12" singles converted onto a CD/MP3.

Thanks

SS23.

Kieran_Burns

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You can buy USB turntables now - I don't know how good they sound.

Or get a decent sound card and plug it straight into a good amp

STi wanna Subaru

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Bit expensive.

LP 2 CD

Coffin Dodger

Wouldn't bother with that if you already have a turntable.

To the OP, as mentioned best way would be to hook up the turntable to a decent quality sound card in a PC. You will probably also need a phono stage pre-amp if you are using a stand alone deck ( CAMBRIDGE AUDIO 540P-SIL at Richer Sounds - HI-FI Separates, Home Cinema, Speakers, MP3 DVD Portables, Plasma LCD, etc. ). Older amplifiers had these built in but most modern ones don't as not so many people use record decks these days. If you have such an amp run the deck through it and hook the PC up to the tape output for recording.

When records are recorded the bass is reduced and the treble is boosted using a special filter. This is necessary as deep bass would result in really wavy grooves in the record which would stray into the bit where the next grove is to be cut, treble on the other hand results in tiny movements within the groove so this has to be boosted at the recording time so it can be picked up by the record player.

For play back the reverse of this filter is required and this is what the phono pre-amp above or the phono stage in the amplifier would contain. Without it it will sound a bit weird which is probably what you are experiencing.

Once it's captured within the PC as a .wav file there a are plenty of tools out there for noise reduction (i.e. crackles and hiss) as well as scratch filtering.

Good luck

Jer

Why not just download the MP3's? If you have the LP's I would not feel too bad about it.