Great stuff chaps many thanks
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Great stuff chaps many thanks
Rega fono mini
Audiophiles seem much less snobby about Behringer gear than musos, but in terms of bang for buck they're hard to beat
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Behringer-U.../dp/B002GHBYZ0
If you're after something much better, get a decent phono preamp, or use the tape outs on your amp of choice, and run them in to a decent 2 channel audio interface that's priced to taste.
Steve
I take the output from my phono stage into a Tascam 144mk2 Midi Interface which is an ADC and it outputs USB to my PC
I use Audacity to record to digital, only pain is having to manually split up and name your tag data but that goes for all software AFAIK.
The Tascam works well but its a few years old now and they may be something better out there ?.
Your welcome to borrow mine and see what you think just call round for it
https://www.amazon.com/Tascam-US-144.../dp/B002TTKI84
Alan
There are some more specialised apps for vinyl ripping, which help take the PITA out of having to split, title and catalogue all the generated files.
For instance: http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/vinylstu...it_screen.aspx
I recall someone posting a very good looking one a couple of years ago but cant remember who and which board! Sorry! (It had a lookup function for the track names etc etc so you just told it what album it was looking at and it split at all the silences and appended titles and so on).
In terms of recording, then once you've got your hardware set you may do well to start off with a test disc that has tones at known levels, so you can calibrate the gain structure of your recording chain. Regardless of the endless (circular) discussions here there is more headroom in even a 16 bit digital recording than there is cut in to your vinyl so make sure you leave a decent amount of headroom (shoot for an average of around -18dBFS on the meter in the computer with peaks no higher than about -6dBFS) if the meter hits the red in the computer it'd fuxed and you'll need to start again.
You can of course play with post processing your recordings, for instance you might elect to 'normalize' them to a set level, which may help with consistency across your recordings. Of course you could get really carried away and remaster the whole lot with eq, compression (possibly multiband) and / or limiting too.
Pure vinyl 5 does this.
Was an add in to audacity. Perfect tunes or sommat like that which adds art etc. Not tried it tho. I fancied doing it but macs seem to get the best software.