A few tips to further improve results. Most pick-up cartridges are magnetic and need R.I.A.A. correction applied to reverse the noise reduction curve applied when the record is mastered. The easiest and most robust way to provide this is leave your turntable connected to your audio amplifier and connect the R.C.A. jacks for your computer lead to the tape out sockets on your amplifier. This allows use of the amplifiers built-in R.I.A.A. equalisation and also supplies a higher voltage signal to the cable - directly connecting a pick-up cartridge to the computer can severely degrade quality due to lead capacitance - especially if a long lead is used. As a side benefit it also means any audio source connected to the amplifier (tuner, tape, d.a.t) etc. can be recorded without swapping leads. The signal recorded can only ever be as good as the signal provided so before starting check your turntable set-up (alignment, tracking weights etc) and your vinyl is clean - loads of RUclips videos on both of these subjects. If it's a particularly important project I like to record one track at a time rather than a complete album side. It takes longer but has some real quality benefits. For instance most styli accumulate dust and fluff as the record plays causing audible depreciation; doing one track at a time means each track can be recorded with a clean needle. A minor point you may think but if you're archiving you want the very best signal you can get. Secondly Audicity has a fade in / out function which I find invaluable when digitising vinyl; All records have an obvious noise floor (pressing rumble, vinyl hiss, crackles) and I like to fade in before the selection starts (this removes the sudden jump of noise when playing back - it provides a nice smooth fade-in to the music) and fade-out does the same at the end as the tune "fades to black" rather than coming to an abrupt stop. You can, of course, play around with these to get the best results for your liking. None of the tips above cost anything but a bit of time and trial and error so good luck and I hope you find them helpful
Thanks for the advice. I tried using Noise Removal and did notice some heavy digital warping. I thought I'd try experimenting with the different sensitivity and smoothness settings within the effect in an attempt to find an equal balance of clean sound with minimal warping. I'm new to digital conversion and vinyls in general, and still have a lot to learn. This video was an excellent help.
just wanted you to know that you have been my step by step advice to covert LP to MP3.. your video is a great tool and I do appreciate it sir and thank you.
Very good explanation. Excellent . Is that a special headphone to 2 plugs or can you use any phono plugs. Very easy to follow. Probably you could use a 5 pin din plug to 2 phono sockets which you could connect to that lead if you wanted to. I'm anxious to try it. With that you could use a radio cassette or even from 8 track if you wanted to yes ? Very good explanation
Many thanks for this video as I have wanted to convert my vinyls years ago but did not know how. Anyway, I followed your instructions to the very 't' using a notebook. After recording one track, the playback from the notebook was horrendous. The sound was very distorted and in most times, it came on loud and then soft and then loud again, alternating every few seconds. Did I miss out anything along the way? The distortions were very 'jarring'. Would be great to receive some feedback, even from the others on this thread. Many thanks.
Okay I finally got it to work but when I play it back the volume is very very low is there a setting to adjust that at all besides just the volume on playback?
Dkatanasoul0, You can use any of the tools in Audacity to clean up the sound. I personally don't like using these tools because it sometimes adds some digitized warpage to the end product. I would rather hear it as it came directly off the record.
Non, Il faut corriger les graves et aigües avec un filtre RIAA : 1) Brancher les cordons RCA sur la sortie "REC OUT" de l'ampli, le signal passe alors par le filtre RIAA qui sert justement à ça. L'autre bout du câble va alors non pas sur la prise verte (micro) du PC mais la prise bleue (LINE IN) car le spectre est corrigé mais le niveau est plus fort, généralement trop fort pour l'entrée micro. ou 2) appliquer le plug-in "RIAA" fourni avec Audacity (si on est "obligé" d'utiliser la prise micro).
Thanks for the demo. However, where exactly did you plug the cable in on the side of the turntable? I have only outlets in the back of my control unit (Sony), nothing in the front like I see on your setup! Can you specify that part, please?
I thank you for the help because everyone said just plug your usb in and it works but it didn't but when I plugged my wire in the microphone jack it finally works like I said Thank You for the help!
When I pull up preferences it does not have an option for microphone input, only internal mike even though I DO HAVE A PORT ON my comp. Any suggestions?
Hi, you've likely received a comment regarding text legibility (1:57 your computer screen) in this video, yet I can't help to make a comment. I'm grateful the transcript is available to follow.
Just wanted to mention if you buy those vintage looking all in ones can record a album to cd or buy a vintage stereo system can record from album to cassette or cd I've gotten mine at goodwill and salvation army cheap
In the video, you show plugging the turntable output directly to the laptop mic input (with connector converter). However, on the Audacity website, they state that the turntable should not be directly connected to the laptop or PC.....that a pre-amp must be used. So....which is correct?
As far as I am aware you need a phono stage/Pre-amplifier unless your turntable has a phono stage built in to it, most dont. Behringer sell an inexpensive USB audio interface with built in pre-amp, Behringer UFO202 U-Phono Audio Interface, approx £25/$25 and they just work with no messing about.
@@SidBonkers51 I connected my turntable to an older stereo, then I went from Earphone jack to computer and tried the blue input. Gave me stereo and recorded fine, but on playback with audacity, the recording sounded like it was in a can. I tried the direct line, and it only recorded one side of the stereo track in mono. Can't win for loosing. I even tried direct to pc from turn table and the results were the same. I have one forty five I want on CD so I guess I'll have to find a pro to do it for me. It's a 45 of a band I used to play with back in the 70's.
My name is freda I wonder if you write down the instructions of this Visio step by step as I find your video confusing as I am struggling to do my multi songs
Carl... I'm learning. I got a USB turntable by ION with software and Audacity. My question: Will MP3 files play on any CD player or should I know about some other format...? I've got a valuable old collection of blues vinyl and some of it is rare enough to be of interest to some of my close friends. 'Nutherwords... do MP3's only play on computers or will they play in the car's dash board CD that is with my car radio...? What is "Audio CD" that the ROXY software supports...? Is that what I need here...?
MP3 will not work in most CD players as is. You can, however, burn MP3 onto an audio CD. It's a formatting thing. If you burn the MP3 as a FILE it will not work, but your CD burning software should give you the option to BURN AS AUDIO CD. This distinction is important. The software will convert the MP3 as it burns to CD to create a CD that will be recognized by standard CD players. I hope this makes sense. It's a little confusing I know.
Do a quick test to get your recording levels correct before you start your main recording or else audio may be too loud which will result in clipping the top of your waveforms, or if it's not loud enough the audio recording maybe to low. Your's looks very low hence the very small wave pattern.
Using Audacity - you can highlight the song(s), go up to Effects, then from the drop-down menu choose Normalize or Amplify.... if Amplify you'll want to make it a negative number instead of increasing the volume. Test it at different decibel levels until you find one that works best as far as the waveforms are concerned.
En plus, il faut sélectionner la bonne entrée (line-in ou micro), faire un test "au milieu du disque" en tous cas dans un moment "fort" pour adapter le niveau (les barres graphes rouges) un peu en dessous du 0dB. Avant d'exporter, on fait une normalisation à 0 ou -3dB, selon ses prpres goûts. etc. etc.
What I do when confronted with such a question is to watch the video first and see if the video answers my questions. Then, if not, I might follow up with a question the video did not answer. Clearly you bypassed the first step.
As he said he connected the turntable directly into the microphone input on the computer. It is amplified but without the Phono Riaa equalization needed. I think
Ok, I have set up as you specified, and started the recording, then looked at what the program does... it won't pick up the track from the vinyl. I have no clue what I need to do that would make this better...
There is NO line-in port on my laptop (HP Pro book), only a "headphone" and "microphone" plug ins in the front side... besides some USB ports.... so what's a gal to do???
OK, the microphone input will work on a laptop. Go into your mixer settings (right click on the volume control in the Windows taskbar, and select "Recording Devices"). Make sure that your Mic input is selected and enabled. This should help you.
Why do you use 32 bit as against 16 bit? There seems to be a difference of opinion between various contributors, such as yourself. Also, Audacity seem to think setting at 32 bit is better but why? I read somewhere that CD is 16 bit. I wish I understood all of this better.
Barney, this is a sound quality issue. Some will be happy with 16 bit recording and not notice the difference. Generally you always want to record on the higher resolution and then work with a better recording to reduce to what you want. I recommend 32 bit for this reason. You are certainly welcome to experiment, and if 16 bit works for you then by all means, use it! :-)
I'm a beginner at all this but I do want to understand and learn.I posted a similar question, (amongst other questions), on the Audacity Support Forum. See below: "There seems to be a difference of opinion regarding the setting of the Bit Rate for the Default Sample Format. Audio-Technica USA instruct the use of the 16 bit option. A different channel on RUclips instructs 32 bit. Not being an expert I need some guidance and further explanation please".The response was this:"I'm sure your turntable is 16-bits. Audacity uses 32-bit floating-point for internal processing and there are technical reasons for that. CDs are 16-bit/44.1kHz".So if I'm reading it right, please put me right if I am not, it doesn't matter what quality you start with (above 16-bit), the end product, if it is a CD, will only ever be 16-bit.Is this to do with difference between WAV and MP3 or is it something else?I wish I was more knowledgeable about this!
I have been searching for the same answers so I will copy a text that I found useful in a technical discussion on the same topics: unless you have pro equipments, 24 bit are always a bad idea, because to burn an audio CD or convert a file to mp3, and so on, you have to downgrade the 24 bit to the usual 16 bit - if you don´t use a fantastic and often expensive software, the converted file will sound worse than a native 16 bit file; this passage is so critical, that often the conversion is made converting to analog the original 24 bit file and re-digitizing it at 16 bit; on the other side, it could be a good idea use a high sampling rate: CD´s (44.1 kHz) are limited to 20 kHz, mp3´s somewhere around 16-18 kHz, but vinyl records can reproduce frequencies up to 50 kHz; a sampling frequency of 96 kHz can preserve the original frequency extension, and to downgrade from 96 to 44.1 kHz, usually you don´t have a quality degradation - but honestly I don´t think that in the real world it could be a real improvement; we digitize at 44.1 kHz 16 bit, wav format, and it is fine - a 40 minute vinyl record is a 500 MB file, quite small with actual hard disks and memories - then we make two mp3 copies, 320 and 128; I don´t know Audacity, however the time requested from playing the record to delivering all files with metadata is usually no less than two hours; hope this helps!
question, want to convert cassettes to cd with lap top but my lap top doesn't have a mic , just ear phone port, the only thing I can do as far as I can tell it to buy the teac lpr 550 usb, any ideas?
There's usually always two jacks on laptops - one with the headphone symbol,the other with a Mic symbol....they're color coded on higher end laptops (exactly like on home pc's - color and type.)
At the beginning, you say that you are not going through the amplifier at all. I wonder how you then manage to record anything with the Audacity program. See my comment below... it does not work for me! No sound whatsoever!
what do I need to do to record through my input jack on my CPU and not my microphone jack my CPU won't read my record player when I put in the input jack
How do I convert the song to mp3? When I save the song it only saves as a wav. It says I need to download some lame app but it won't let me. Thank you. Good video too!
gerry cox-brooks Try conversion with Bigasoft converter (it's very user-friendly and cheap; you will be able to convert a lot of audio formtas in between). A free solution could be ITunes (not sure now if it reads .wav; please, visit Apple website).
I have converted the best files there is, ans I still get a slightly lower quality file. Do you think its my computer and/or files? Im beginning to think changing the files is not so great. Even the best wav files have a little lower quality. But if one buys wav files, they sound good, I believe the stores have better stuff.
I suppose it depends on the codec you use for converting formats. I prefer MP3 because of portability. It lets me push my file onto different devices seamlessly. And we're not dogs; we're not able to distinguish tiny differences, provided you work with 320 kbps Mp3 at 44-48 Kbps. I love jazz and there's a lot of stuff in FLAC format (not all devices can still play it and it takes 4 times the space needed for an "acceptable" quality in MP3... So you decide what do you want to listen and how... Please, take a look to the following article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/mp3-cd-24-bit-audio-music-hi-res
@@marcdavies5810 No. HDMI is video only. Without microphone jack I'm afraid you're out of luck unless you can find a usb to microphone jack adapter (I've never seen one, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist).
Did everything the video asks for but couldnt record my vinyl disk,it would record my voice and the tv in the background but not the disk,I have windows 10
I record to wav, and burn straight to disc as wav. It's of the highest quality...mp3 format at 320kps is still no comparison to wav format. 128kps is garbage. Just saying
+Klaas Baas Better question: why export to mp3?????? Vinyl is delicious, MP3 is garbage. If you're going to use solid state storage, only use WAV, FLAC or ALAC. If you just *must*, WMA Lossless. And +George Price , if you can't hear the difference between MP3 and Vinyl, you're stone deaf. Go buy some Bluetooth Beats headphones. They're made specifically for people like you.
+George Price An average 128kbps MP3 is a 4 meg file. A similar length FLAC file is about 16 megs, probably less. If you are worried about saving 12 megs per song, I'd suggest a hard drive upgrade. You can score 1TB drives for $40 nowadays. And the Beats thing was sarcasm. They are total garbage. As is Bluetooth. It's pretty obvious you've never done any critical listening through a semi-decent stereo if you think 128kpbs MP3 is acceptable. You really don't know what you're missing. The difference is night and day through even a mid-fi stereo. About the only time you'll *won't* hear the difference if you're listening through utter garbage speakers like the aforementioned Beats, anything at all via Bluetooth, or an alarm clock.
This is very informative, but it's too much work! I like to do things the easy way, so it's more easier and convenient for me to download the MP3s songs directly from Amazon.
A few tips to further improve results. Most pick-up cartridges are magnetic and need R.I.A.A. correction applied to reverse the noise reduction curve applied when the record is mastered. The easiest and most robust way to provide this is leave your turntable connected to your audio amplifier and connect the R.C.A. jacks for your computer lead to the tape out sockets on your amplifier. This allows use of the amplifiers built-in R.I.A.A. equalisation and also supplies a higher voltage signal to the cable - directly connecting a pick-up cartridge to the computer can severely degrade quality due to lead capacitance - especially if a long lead is used. As a side benefit it also means any audio source connected to the amplifier (tuner, tape, d.a.t) etc. can be recorded without swapping leads. The signal recorded can only ever be as good as the signal provided so before starting check your turntable set-up (alignment, tracking weights etc) and your vinyl is clean - loads of RUclips videos on both of these subjects. If it's a particularly important project I like to record one track at a time rather than a complete album side. It takes longer but has some real quality benefits. For instance most styli accumulate dust and fluff as the record plays causing audible depreciation; doing one track at a time means each track can be recorded with a clean needle. A minor point you may think but if you're archiving you want the very best signal you can get. Secondly Audicity has a fade in / out function which I find invaluable when digitising vinyl; All records have an obvious noise floor (pressing rumble, vinyl hiss, crackles) and I like to fade in before the selection starts (this removes the sudden jump of noise when playing back - it provides a nice smooth fade-in to the music) and fade-out does the same at the end as the tune "fades to black" rather than coming to an abrupt stop. You can, of course, play around with these to get the best results for your liking. None of the tips above cost anything but a bit of time and trial and error so good luck and I hope you find them helpful
I didn't know anything on this subject, but your step by step was great. No details left out. It worked fine.
Thanks for the advice. I tried using Noise Removal and did notice some heavy digital warping. I thought I'd try experimenting with the different sensitivity and smoothness settings within the effect in an attempt to find an equal balance of clean sound with minimal warping.
I'm new to digital conversion and vinyls in general, and still have a lot to learn. This video was an excellent help.
just wanted you to know that you have been my step by step advice to covert LP to MP3.. your video is a great tool and I do appreciate it sir and thank you.
Very good explanation. Excellent . Is that a special headphone to 2 plugs or can you use any phono plugs. Very easy to follow. Probably you could use a 5 pin din plug to 2 phono sockets which you could connect to that lead if you wanted to. I'm anxious to try it. With that you could use a radio cassette or even from 8 track if you wanted to yes ?
Very good explanation
Great video. What do you do to get rid of crackle noise and clicks? Do you use any of the effects built into Audacity?
Many thanks for this video as I have wanted to convert my vinyls years ago but did not know how. Anyway, I followed your instructions to the very 't' using a notebook. After recording one track, the playback from the notebook was horrendous. The sound was very distorted and in most times, it came on loud and then soft and then loud again, alternating every few seconds. Did I miss out anything along the way? The distortions were very 'jarring'. Would be great to receive some feedback, even from the others on this thread. Many thanks.
What volume level do you use when recording? Great tutorial.
Thanks
simplified greatly what I was doing with other software! Thanks a ton!
Okay I finally got it to work but when I play it back the volume is very very low is there a setting to adjust that at all besides just the volume on playback?
Dkatanasoul0,
You can use any of the tools in Audacity to clean up the sound. I personally don't like using these tools because it sometimes adds some digitized warpage to the end product. I would rather hear it as it came directly off the record.
Non, Il faut corriger les graves et aigües avec un filtre RIAA :
1) Brancher les cordons RCA sur la sortie "REC OUT" de l'ampli, le signal passe alors par le filtre RIAA qui sert justement à ça.
L'autre bout du câble va alors non pas sur la prise verte (micro) du PC mais la prise bleue (LINE IN) car le spectre est corrigé mais le niveau est plus fort, généralement trop fort pour l'entrée micro.
ou 2) appliquer le plug-in "RIAA" fourni avec Audacity (si on est "obligé" d'utiliser la prise micro).
Great video. Thanks. Is there any way I can simultaneously listen to what is being recorded on my laptop?
Yes...just make sure your computer speakers are on and you will hear whatever is being played
Thanks for the demo. However, where exactly did you plug the cable in on the side of the turntable? I have only outlets in the back of my control unit (Sony), nothing in the front like I see on your setup! Can you specify that part, please?
What do you do about background noise like annoying hisses, rumbles, and pops?
I thank you for the help because everyone said just plug your usb in and it works but it didn't but when I plugged my wire in the microphone jack it finally works like I said Thank You for the help!
When I pull up preferences it does not have an option for microphone input, only internal mike even though I DO HAVE A PORT ON my comp. Any suggestions?
Hi, you've likely received a comment regarding text legibility (1:57 your computer screen) in this video, yet I can't help to make a comment. I'm grateful the transcript is available to follow.
Just wanted to mention if you buy those vintage looking all in ones can record a album to cd or buy a vintage stereo system can record from album to cassette or cd I've gotten mine at goodwill and salvation army cheap
Super cool video, easy to follow along. I was doing this the hard way not anymore.Thank You much.
Here is a great Ebook to learning how to transfer records to CD payhip.com/b/moXt
In the video, you show plugging the turntable output directly to the laptop mic input (with connector converter). However, on the Audacity website, they state that the turntable should not be directly connected to the laptop or PC.....that a pre-amp must be used. So....which is correct?
As far as I am aware you need a phono stage/Pre-amplifier unless your turntable has a phono stage built in to it, most dont. Behringer sell an inexpensive USB audio interface with built in pre-amp, Behringer UFO202 U-Phono Audio Interface, approx £25/$25 and they just work with no messing about.
@@SidBonkers51 I connected my turntable to an older stereo, then I went from Earphone jack to computer
and tried the blue input. Gave me stereo and recorded fine, but on playback with audacity, the recording sounded like it was in a can. I tried the direct line, and it only recorded one side of the stereo track in mono. Can't win for loosing. I even tried direct to pc from turn table and the results were the same.
I have one forty five I want on CD so I guess I'll have to find a pro to do it for me. It's a 45 of a band I used to play with back in the 70's.
My name is freda I wonder if you write down the instructions of this Visio step by step as I find your video confusing as I am struggling to do my multi songs
Carl... I'm learning. I got a USB turntable by ION with software and Audacity. My question: Will MP3 files play on any CD player or should I know about some other format...? I've got a valuable old collection of blues vinyl and some of it is rare enough to be of interest to some of my close friends. 'Nutherwords... do MP3's only play on computers or will they play in the car's dash board CD that is with my car radio...? What is "Audio CD" that the ROXY software supports...? Is that what I need here...?
MP3 will not work in most CD players as is. You can, however, burn MP3 onto an audio CD. It's a formatting thing. If you burn the MP3 as a FILE it will not work, but your CD burning software should give you the option to BURN AS AUDIO CD. This distinction is important. The software will convert the MP3 as it burns to CD to create a CD that will be recognized by standard CD players. I hope this makes sense. It's a little confusing I know.
Thomas De Lello m
Do a quick test to get your recording levels correct before you start your main recording or else audio may be too loud which will result in clipping the top of your waveforms, or if it's not loud enough the audio recording maybe to low. Your's looks very low hence the very small wave pattern.
Does it really matter?
When I did this mine were really high so I'm a little concerned.
I was not able to change it anywhere either.
Using Audacity - you can highlight the song(s), go up to Effects, then from the drop-down menu choose Normalize or Amplify.... if Amplify you'll want to make it a negative number instead of increasing the volume. Test it at different decibel levels until you find one that works best as far as the waveforms are concerned.
En plus, il faut sélectionner la bonne entrée (line-in ou micro), faire un test "au milieu du disque" en tous cas dans un moment "fort" pour adapter le niveau (les barres graphes rouges) un peu en dessous du 0dB.
Avant d'exporter, on fait une normalisation à 0 ou -3dB, selon ses prpres goûts.
etc. etc.
Does your method automatically download/save as a MP3 file or do you have to later convert. Or is the download to the computer a WAV file.
What I do when confronted with such a question is to watch the video first and see if the video answers my questions. Then, if not, I might follow up with a question the video did not answer. Clearly you bypassed the first step.
u just need an RCA (red and white) to headphone 3.5mm plug cable.... to go from ...amp, turntable portable etc to your PC mic input.
lets say i have a lossless flac file of an lp. can i just convert the file with switch setting the hz n bits from 48bit/192khz to 16bit/44,1khz?
big help appreciate it man thanks a lot!! got the files done!!
The Frugal Berry -
I didn't know that you could record directly from the turntable to computer; I thought a pre-amp was necessary?
As he said he connected the turntable directly into the microphone input on the computer. It is amplified but without the Phono Riaa equalization needed. I think
Ok, I have set up as you specified, and started the recording, then looked at what the program does... it won't pick up the track from the vinyl. I have no clue what I need to do that would make this better...
You need to plug the headphone jack into Line In, NOT Microphone!
There is NO line-in port on my laptop (HP Pro book), only a "headphone" and "microphone" plug ins in the front side... besides some USB ports.... so what's a gal to do???
OK, the microphone input will work on a laptop. Go into your mixer settings (right click on the volume control in the Windows taskbar, and select "Recording Devices"). Make sure that your Mic input is selected and enabled. This should help you.
Why do you use 32 bit as against 16 bit?
There seems to be a difference of opinion between various contributors, such as yourself.
Also, Audacity seem to think setting at 32 bit is better but why?
I read somewhere that CD is 16 bit.
I wish I understood all of this better.
Barney, this is a sound quality issue. Some will be happy with 16 bit recording and not notice the difference. Generally you always want to record on the higher resolution and then work with a better recording to reduce to what you want. I recommend 32 bit for this reason. You are certainly welcome to experiment, and if 16 bit works for you then by all means, use it! :-)
I'm a beginner at all this but I do want to understand and learn.I posted a similar question, (amongst other questions), on the Audacity Support Forum. See below:
"There seems to be a difference of opinion regarding the setting of the
Bit Rate for the Default Sample Format. Audio-Technica USA instruct the use of the 16 bit option. A different channel on RUclips instructs 32 bit. Not being an expert I need some guidance and further explanation please".The response was this:"I'm sure your turntable is 16-bits. Audacity uses 32-bit floating-point
for internal processing and there are technical reasons for that. CDs are 16-bit/44.1kHz".So if I'm reading it right, please put me right if I am not, it doesn't matter what quality you start with (above 16-bit), the end product, if it is a CD, will only ever be 16-bit.Is this to do with difference between WAV and MP3 or is it something else?I wish I was more knowledgeable about this!
I have been searching for the same answers so I will copy a text that I found useful in a technical discussion on the same topics: unless you have pro equipments, 24 bit are always a bad idea, because to burn an audio CD or convert a file to mp3, and so on, you have to downgrade the 24 bit to the usual 16 bit - if you don´t use a fantastic and often expensive software, the converted file will sound worse than a native 16 bit file; this passage is so critical, that often the conversion is made converting to analog the original 24 bit file and re-digitizing it at 16 bit; on the other side, it could be a good idea use a high sampling rate: CD´s (44.1 kHz) are limited to 20 kHz, mp3´s somewhere around 16-18 kHz, but vinyl records can reproduce frequencies up to 50 kHz; a sampling frequency of 96 kHz can preserve the original frequency extension, and to downgrade from 96 to 44.1 kHz, usually you don´t have a quality degradation - but honestly I don´t think that in the real world it could be a real improvement; we digitize at 44.1 kHz 16 bit, wav format, and it is fine - a 40 minute vinyl record is a 500 MB file, quite small with actual hard disks and memories - then we make two mp3 copies, 320 and 128; I don´t know Audacity, however the time requested from playing the record to delivering all files with metadata is usually no less than two hours; hope this helps!
what turntable are you using. does it have a pre-amp?
I am wondering thew same thing, about the pre-amp...
question, want to convert cassettes to cd with lap top but my lap top doesn't have a mic , just ear phone port, the only thing I can do as far as I can tell it to buy the teac lpr 550 usb, any ideas?
I found an RCA to mini plug cable that I use when I transfer cassettes. Just plug directly into the Jack.
There's usually always two jacks on laptops - one with the headphone symbol,the other with a Mic symbol....they're color coded on higher end laptops (exactly like on home pc's - color and type.)
Here is a great Ebook to learning how to transfer records to CD payhip.com/b/moXt
The distortions did not come from my amplifier as the volume button was put to the minimum and yet the waves showed loud pitch.
Genorimo Billy Ong did you have the input volume on Audacity turned down?
At the beginning, you say that you are not going through the amplifier at all. I wonder how you then manage to record anything with the Audacity program. See my comment below... it does not work for me! No sound whatsoever!
what do I need to do to record through my input jack on my CPU and not my microphone jack my CPU won't read my record player when I put in the input jack
Same here. Did u manage 2 sort it?
Still waiting for those instructions please Freda
How do I convert the song to mp3? When I save the song it only saves as a wav. It says I need to download some lame app but it won't let me. Thank you. Good video too!
gerry cox-brooks Why would you want crummy mp3, wav is better?
Myron Helton You're not helping. Not everyone has the space for WAV and most people can't tell the difference. Don't be an elitist.
gerry cox-brooks Try conversion with Bigasoft converter (it's very user-friendly and cheap; you will be able to convert a lot of audio formtas in between). A free solution could be ITunes (not sure now if it reads .wav; please, visit Apple website).
I have converted the best files there is, ans I still get a slightly lower quality file. Do you think its my computer and/or files? Im beginning to think changing the files is not so great. Even the best wav files have a little lower quality. But if one buys wav files, they sound good, I believe the stores have better stuff.
I suppose it depends on the codec you use for converting formats. I prefer MP3 because of portability. It lets me push my file onto different devices seamlessly. And we're not dogs; we're not able to distinguish tiny differences, provided you work with 320 kbps Mp3 at 44-48 Kbps. I love jazz and there's a lot of stuff in FLAC format (not all devices can still play it and it takes 4 times the space needed for an "acceptable" quality in MP3... So you decide what do you want to listen and how... Please, take a look to the following article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/mp3-cd-24-bit-audio-music-hi-res
that looks veeeeeery quiet. normally the graph should reach the edges. unless ofc u changed the decibel range or whatever that is...
Well done. Straight forward knowledge share.
Bravo! Nice, clear tutorial. Much appreciation!
is there a way I can hook my turntable up my laptop.all I have is and earphone jack.
Did u manage 2 sort it? I have the same problem
My rca lead 2 head fone Jack doesn't work it won't pick up the sound. Pls can u help
Are you plugging it into the headphone jack, or the microphone jack? It needs to be plugged into the microphone jack to work.
@@frugalberry head fone Jack. It does not have a microfone socket. It's got HDMI plug. Will Phono 2 HDMI work?
@@marcdavies5810 No. HDMI is video only. Without microphone jack I'm afraid you're out of luck unless you can find a usb to microphone jack adapter (I've never seen one, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist).
@@frugalberry Ok thanks
@@frugalberry what about a trss 2 trs lead ? Do u think that will work?
my imac only has a headphone jack how do I work around that
I'm guessing you can get a USB microphone for the iMac. Never done it before. Good luck.
Did everything the video asks for but couldnt record my vinyl disk,it would record my voice and the tv in the background but not the disk,I have windows 10
+Jesus Benavides watch at 3:35 again
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The point of a record is the sound. Life is short play records alot.
Convert? You mean create an Mp3 or cd from vinyl records?
I think the record is still a record after the process
the video image is too poor, you need to fix it more
way to complecated, why don't you just get serato is much easier and transfer it to itunes librarey and is done fewer steps
I record to wav, and burn straight to disc as wav. It's of the highest quality...mp3 format at 320kps is still no comparison to wav format. 128kps is garbage.
Just saying
Jay SoundSuspect 128 rules! Not everyone can hear a difference over 192 kbps.
George Price you gotta be joking all mp3s sound shit
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WHY export at 128 kbps??????
I do it at 128 because I don't hear a difference between 128, 296 and 320kbps and to save hdd space.
+Klaas Baas Better question: why export to mp3?????? Vinyl is delicious, MP3 is garbage. If you're going to use solid state storage, only use WAV, FLAC or ALAC. If you just *must*, WMA Lossless.
And +George Price , if you can't hear the difference between MP3 and Vinyl, you're stone deaf. Go buy some Bluetooth Beats headphones. They're made specifically for people like you.
+Michael Bloom @ almost $200? I'll pass,thanks. Besides,I also prefer 128 for another reason - saves HDD space.
+George Price An average 128kbps MP3 is a 4 meg file. A similar length FLAC file is about 16 megs, probably less. If you are worried about saving 12 megs per song, I'd suggest a hard drive upgrade. You can score 1TB drives for $40 nowadays.
And the Beats thing was sarcasm. They are total garbage. As is Bluetooth.
It's pretty obvious you've never done any critical listening through a semi-decent stereo if you think 128kpbs MP3 is acceptable. You really don't know what you're missing. The difference is night and day through even a mid-fi stereo. About the only time you'll *won't* hear the difference if you're listening through utter garbage speakers like the aforementioned Beats, anything at all via Bluetooth, or an alarm clock.
+Michael Bloom can you tell I'm not an audiophile? lol
My apple air only has a headphone jack.
Did u manage 2 sort the problem?
Je sais, non?
This is very informative, but it's too much work! I like to do things the easy way, so it's more easier and convenient for me to download the MP3s songs directly from Amazon.
Super loser
Dood ur video is all fuzzy!