Anyone know the first thing about converting Vinyl LP to CD format? A few pointers in the right direction will do re: hardware and software requirements. Thanks a lot.
Try nero mix.Nero mix allows recording of LP or tape.I backed up a rare tape to CD.Used nero mix and clipped the tracks seperately using audacity.I just used a mini-plug Y adapter from radio shack with RCA jacks on the end.Placed that in the line in on the sound card and hooked it up to the output jacks on the stereo.Play it through nero mix and save it to your computer.
where do I get a vinyl drive for my computer though? HAHA JK. You will have best luck using very high quality analog devices, you will want to use the best capturing method possible, and for many, this is provided by using this combo... ok turntable -> excellent needle cartridge -> solid phono preamp or to quality phono in -> high quality amplifier/digital processor with digital output -> digital input on computers sound interface -> your software of choice for capturing digital audio. if you have no digital processor or really good amp, go from phono preamp -> mini jack input like hijacker suggested. be aware that this will have the potential of creating a messy sound if your computer has interference issues like many do with drive access. in this case, you will want to close everything possible, and if also possible, disable virtual memory and record as much as possible to RAM. I just do one song at a time with this method. if you have a good soundcard input already, you wont have this issue, and its not as big of an issue with soundcards that are of higher quality or are at least not built in. Soundstorm, however, is a quite good audio processing unit, and if you have no interference problems, should suffice quite nicely. if you are overclocking and overvolting your computer, undervolt and underclock it to solve these issues. make sure its still stable though. as for absolute requirements... turntable, proper cabling, computer input. i suppose software wise NeroMix should suffice, but there are plent of standard capture softwares for nil. like, windows recorder for instance. windows recorder and an input are pretty standard on all boxes and all MS OSes. i personally dont like neromix. just me though. you can use EAC also for editing silence on the end of tracks and for breaking them up. i think software wise, you can get everything you need for free if you look through the archive here. hardware wise is where you might need a few things. it really helps to have a phono preamp, and really really helps if you have digital inputs and an external amp/processor with digital outputs for really keeping the sound clean. you might try using your dvd player as the digital outputter and your analog inputs from the phono to the dvd player. my dvd player is pretty high quality for this. i dont use windows recorder for that though.
Teen80, the first time I had a tape tranfer to cd was from a local music company that sell pianos and other musical instruments.I'm sure they had a better set up than I did of course,They did vinyl and tape to cd but they charge me 50 bucks at the time and not to many places that I call offered that type of service.It all depends on how bad you want your record or tape transferd to cd, because it's either time consuming or it's pricey to have some one else do it.But if you have money and don't have the time, I would call around to businesses in your area and you should find someone that does this type of service.Like Bucket said you may need or try some other types of software and amplify you output.A mini plug may cause some hiss from the record.Does your motherboard have SPDIF input for direct sound feed to your sound processor?.
Hey teen80s. If you don't want to do the transfer job yourself, there are a ton of sites out there that do that kind of work. I used http://www.lptransfers4u.com who did a great job with my vinyl transfers. However, there are many others.
The simpliest configuration is: 1. The Vinyl Records by themselves 2. A turntable for playing the vinyl records 3. A phono preamp or mixer or preamplifier or an integrated amplifier with preamplifier output which will accept the analog audio from the turntable and lead the audio to the computer's audio adapter. 4. A desktop or laptop equiped with the above adapter. 5. The relative software, such as, Sony's Jukebox or Sony's Soundforge or Nero Mix or anything else. 6. Maybe an RCA ledt + RCA right to stereo minijack adapter (from the equipment of par 3 to audio adapter). - The choise of the analog equipment is very important and it has big ratio price / performance. - The same is stands also for your audio adapter whic of course must have a line input
If you want to transfer tapes or cassete tapes you don't need the equipment of par.3, because the signal strength is enough to the audio adapters needs. The same happens for tuner's output
