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 Connect your turntable to the preamp's phono input, and the preamp's output to your sound card's line-in jack (usually blue). If you're also transferring from cassettes, connect the tape deck's outputs to the preamp's second set of inputs. Click to enlarge. |
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Connect the output from your turntable's tone arm to a phono input on the preamp, and the preamp's output (usually labeled "line" or "amp") to the line-input jack on your PC sound card.
Depending on your sound card, selecting the right jack may seem like a game of chance, but there are clues. Jacks are usually colour-coded: blue is a line input, red a microphone input, and green a speaker output. Additional jacks may be secondary speaker outputs or digital interfaces. Other clues, for those with good eyes or a flashlight and a magnifying glass, there are the symbols engraved in the vicinity of each jack. The microphone symbol is self-evident. A series of concentric circles with an arrowhead pointing to the centre indicates a line input. If the arrowhead points away from the circles, it's an output.
Life is simpler if you want to make transfers from cassette. Just connect the tape deck's line outputs to the sound card's line input, and you're done. Or if you're doing both tape and LP transfers, connect the tape deck to the preamp's second set of inputs.
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schmee
08/06/2005 09:11 PM
hhmm, in recent years there have been a number of turntables available marketed specifically & purely for this purpose, made to hook straight up to your pc &, I assume, with bundled software. Funnily enough, this being cnet & all, I thought this article was going to be product review & comparison of some of these items. That would be info that's not readily available & would be really useful.
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schmee
08/06/2005 09:18 PM
a s sume, a-s-sume, a.s.sume good grief, shocking, lame, inept, stupid censoring software on this site, unfknblvbl LOL, you can tell it's an american parent company. parents don't have an option, they have a duty & a need to run content filtering software, don't inflict his crud on the rest of us.
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jmallet
30/09/2005 05:36 PM
I Have turned some of my LP's to 32 Bit CD Music using Software "Goldwave". The Music comes from my HiFi Amplifier and connects to my Sound Card in my computer, I setup Goldwave to accept the music which starts to come in. Afterwards I save this to my harddrive and later burn to my CDs.
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