A little help please?

[cheeky half]

Ok, I now have my computer, feeding line out to a yamaha amp, with monitor speakers, turntable going into the amp, don't want to do anything flash - I am one step away from starting to record my vinyl collection to hard disk thence to burn to cd... the only "dummies giude" i found on the net told me to run from aux on the amp to line in on the sound card, is this correct?

Also any recommendations for software that would optimise the recording, i currently have nero, and roxio easy cd, both of which will do what i want but being bundled software maybe not ideal

I am not really interested in creating dj mixes or anything like that, simply wanting a way to make my music collection easier to listen to

cheers

[phunkdust]

yep thats the way to do it... the quality of the recording depends on the preamps in your amp and the converters in your soundcard...

for faciliating recording, you'll need a wave editor program such as GoldWave, CoolEdit or SoundForge... these will let you record from the line in, and clean up the track a little, get the levels right, etc, and save in WAV or MP3 or whatever format you want to use...

[driload]

do you have a mixer?

or is your turntable going into the phono of the amp?


aux is an input on most amps.... it wont SEND a signal to your pc

in this case run from the Tape Out that most home hifi amps will have


oh and nero is considered a much preferable cd burning app then roxio/easycd creator


you want to be recording with recording software such as Soundforge or CoolEdit however

any more questions fire away...

[driload]

hey, we posted at the same time phunk :P

[cheeky half]

thanks for the replies, thats what i thought re aux,that it was an input channel, i do have tape out, again which i thought would be the right way to go.

no i dont have a mixer, turntable going straight to amp at the moment...

... i do have access to software other than nero or roxio for the recording side of things, but i have to know what to ask for, my understanding is that the mentioned programs will do the job, but may not be ideal, ie for cleaning up the sound etc, i am going to be recording music from all genres, from old 50's vinyl right through the decades to the present, cooledit is one i have heard mentioned before... to be honest as a start though i want something fairly straightforward, i have some 700-800 albums to copy so the task seems (to me anyway) fairly daunting, I think once I get started I will want to play around a bit more, specially with the 12" singles I have...

[driload]

oh boy


thats an utterly disgusting amount of records!


im assuming youve inherited a lot of these?

id be interested in the 50's records :P

the 60's are cool too, cause they hadnt nailed stereo as we know it.... you get these cool stereo splits where the vocals are just on the left and the music just on the right, and every other kind of situation you can imagine


boy thats a LOT of time you are planning on investing! think of the man hours and wear and tear on your gear

you up for it? :P

[cheeky half]

hehe, its gonna take forever! specially since from the advice i have so far, its better to record track by track, rather than side by side!

The other issue is storage!

I quite like the effect on some of the sixties stuff with the channel separation, mostly it seems from what I have on beatles & rolling stones recordings, tho malcolm mclaren 12 inch of buffalo gals is the most distinctive, i am sure he did this as a gimmick more than anything else!

To clarify not all (but a lot) of the records are mine, some I am borrowing from friends.

A lot of the older stuff came from my parents and their friends, i was pretty dismayed to hear that my grandma threw all my dads elvis and buddy holly records away when he left home to go travelling tho!

As a side issue I guess it would also be possible to record stuff from the radio too?

[driload]

yep it sure would


record anything that can emit a signal through that amp



the only beatles i know with an odd stereo image was some Abbey Road records, where the label just threw their mono tracks on and spread them over stereo

it pissed the Beatles off no end, so they released a tonne in mono


hey sometimes you can find these utterly hilarious sing-a-long records where the vocals are on the left and the music is on the right. it tells you this is how you can learn the words, and when you know the words, just turn the balance to the right!

yeehaa, now i can sing "onward christian soldierrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

[Sean]

i cant remember if its tomorrow never knows or strawberry fields forever, but one of them has the most badass stereo imaging ive heard. so rough. so raw yet so good.