I have some LP's that I would like to transfer to my pc. Has anyone had experiance doing this? How did you do the connection (headphone jack on stereo to line in on pc?). Did you record song at a time or one complete side of LP into a single file & then split up the file on your pc. What recording software did you use. My Windows ME came with "Sound Recorder", would it do the job? Any hints, tips ot tricks appreciated.
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Gary,
I didn't do LP's, but did it with tape, very similar.
I hooked the tape deck directly into the PC line in. Going through a stereo's EQ muddied up the sound, because whatever playback you use, is also going to add EQ. Best to leave the recording 'dry'. If you don't have one, get a '2 RCA female, to 1/8" stereo' cable.
You can find those cables with car CD players,or at Radio Shack type places, then adapt to female with female/female adapters or patch cables.
To record into the PC, I used 'cool edit'. Check it out at http://www.syntrillium.com/download/getfile.html?008.
It let me do things with the wav files. Expand the bitpath, to make the sound richer, and improve the stereo seperation, among other things.
Then I used a program called WAV cleaner, to filter out noise from the tape, and generally clean up the recordings. Worked really well.
http://www.excla.com/WAVclean/English/WAVclean15E.exe
When it was all done, I was even able to burn them to a CD. The difference from the original tape ( was of my band, from the mid 80's ) to the CD was amazing.
WAV cleaner you must register, if you want to use it, but it is inexpensive. The other program, to make the actual recordings, was shareware also, with a feature limited use without registering, which later I also did buy.
I'm not sure if ME's recorder can do it, but WIN 95 and 98 won't. It will only record for some 30 or 60 seconds, not long enough for whole songs. You might try it.
There are no conversion or tweaking tools with 'media player' however, something you may want to do.
One thing with the LP player, you will want to have the ground wire hooked up, or you will likely get hum on the recordings.
Make sure the PC is off when you make the connections. They don't like sparks much.
Best of luck,
Tom
I didn't do LP's, but did it with tape, very similar.
I hooked the tape deck directly into the PC line in. Going through a stereo's EQ muddied up the sound, because whatever playback you use, is also going to add EQ. Best to leave the recording 'dry'. If you don't have one, get a '2 RCA female, to 1/8" stereo' cable.
You can find those cables with car CD players,or at Radio Shack type places, then adapt to female with female/female adapters or patch cables.
To record into the PC, I used 'cool edit'. Check it out at http://www.syntrillium.com/download/getfile.html?008.
It let me do things with the wav files. Expand the bitpath, to make the sound richer, and improve the stereo seperation, among other things.
Then I used a program called WAV cleaner, to filter out noise from the tape, and generally clean up the recordings. Worked really well.
http://www.excla.com/WAVclean/English/WAVclean15E.exe
When it was all done, I was even able to burn them to a CD. The difference from the original tape ( was of my band, from the mid 80's ) to the CD was amazing.
WAV cleaner you must register, if you want to use it, but it is inexpensive. The other program, to make the actual recordings, was shareware also, with a feature limited use without registering, which later I also did buy.
I'm not sure if ME's recorder can do it, but WIN 95 and 98 won't. It will only record for some 30 or 60 seconds, not long enough for whole songs. You might try it.
There are no conversion or tweaking tools with 'media player' however, something you may want to do.
One thing with the LP player, you will want to have the ground wire hooked up, or you will likely get hum on the recordings.
Make sure the PC is off when you make the connections. They don't like sparks much.
Best of luck,
Tom
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Gary:
Easiest way is to hook your record player up to a stereo receiver and run patch cord (2 RCA to single 1/8 stereo plug) from the line out on the receiver to your sound card (line in). Set bass and treble on the receiver to flat response and the bass and treble on your sound card mixer the same. I record from Lp's like this all the time. Lot of the material on the Rebel™ and Ricky site came from LP's. Also use Cooledit, but Cooledit2000, registered version ($69. U.S.) with a noise reduction add-on ($49. U.S.), which does a great job removing hiss and pops etc.
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Easiest way is to hook your record player up to a stereo receiver and run patch cord (2 RCA to single 1/8 stereo plug) from the line out on the receiver to your sound card (line in). Set bass and treble on the receiver to flat response and the bass and treble on your sound card mixer the same. I record from Lp's like this all the time. Lot of the material on the Rebel™ and Ricky site came from LP's. Also use Cooledit, but Cooledit2000, registered version ($69. U.S.) with a noise reduction add-on ($49. U.S.), which does a great job removing hiss and pops etc.
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You might already have a recorder on your computer. If you have a Soundblaster sound card you may have Creative Recorder on your machine. Look: Start/Programs/Creative/Creative Recorder.
This is a nice simple recorder/play back program that will make wave files you can burn to a CD or play directly from the computer. Wave files are big (10 megs/min) so have plenty of hard drive space.
Cool Edit works well too.
This is a nice simple recorder/play back program that will make wave files you can burn to a CD or play directly from the computer. Wave files are big (10 megs/min) so have plenty of hard drive space.
Cool Edit works well too.
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Gary,
You WILL need to hook up your record-player to an amplifier/receiver, because you'll need the phono-preamp with the RIAA-correction in it. You can't connect the player directly, as the signal will be way to small for the line-input, and the impedance of the mic-input is way to low (And it has no RIAA-correction either).
You then use a line-out, usually labeled Rec-out, to connect to the line-in of the PC, and you WON'T have to worry about the tone-controls, they don't affect the line output, but ONLY the signal going to the power-amp of the unit !
Ole
You WILL need to hook up your record-player to an amplifier/receiver, because you'll need the phono-preamp with the RIAA-correction in it. You can't connect the player directly, as the signal will be way to small for the line-input, and the impedance of the mic-input is way to low (And it has no RIAA-correction either).
You then use a line-out, usually labeled Rec-out, to connect to the line-in of the PC, and you WON'T have to worry about the tone-controls, they don't affect the line output, but ONLY the signal going to the power-amp of the unit !
Ole