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nathan

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brixtonite said:
nice idea - don't understand the benefits this has over any other turntable - am i having a DOH! moment?

My turntable only has the red and white output cables so unless i had a really expensive sound card i have no line in on my laptop. Hopefully the adapter I have bought will sort it. But then I still have to deal with soundforge etc. This has its own built in software. Would save a lot of time and hastle
 
ez

arrr, I getcha - lappies are a mare for that sort of thing, the soundcards won't have more than a line in (even then, you're lucky), but you can get a 2 quid adapter from maplin to sort that...

nathan said:
My turntable only has the red and white output cables so unless i had a really expensive sound card i have no line in on my laptop. Hopefully the adapter I have bought will sort it. But then I still have to deal with soundforge etc. This has its own built in software. Would save a lot of time and hastle
 

Mike

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turpieaj said:
Before anyone rushes out to buy one of these - it seems like there is either a piece of information of the website or a seriously required piece of hardware missing - A preamp to boost the signals:confused:

Andy

Looks like the deck has a pre-amp built in, as the blurb says it has a line level output. There are a few other decks you can get that have a built in preamp to plug straight into a line input, but I've never seen a USB one before.
 

sirius

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I dont get it.

Most soundcards have an input......and Audacity is, as far as I know, still Freeware.

Wonder if they do an adaptor from RCA to Usb lol. Could be cheaper.


Sirius.
 

blue jammer

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The USB *may* be to transfer data to and from ya pc?

It's how its done with final scratch anyhow...

Just a thought (I haven't looked at the link btw, so I may be wrong)
 

ilovepiano

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The link says it has LINE LEVEL RCA outputs, so you could put that straight into your soundcard, mixer, amp or whatever.

You can't plug a regular deck in your soundcard even if it has RCA inputs, unless you get a magic box to convert the PHONO signal to a LINE signal. But I guess the sound would go down the USB anyway and straight into your PC.

It's not just a case of amplifying the signal a bit, the whole EQ curve is altered too.