Thursday, 02 May 2019
How Do I Record From Vinyl Disks?
Well, connecting the output from a «Magnetic Phono» cartridge directly into a sound card probably is not going to work very well. The output from a magnetic cartridge is very low, in terms of level. Not only that, but it also has some inherent frequency distortions, which the pre-amp circuits in your stereo are designed to correct for.
So, you either need to use some sort of pre-amp designed to take input from a magnetic cartridge and produce line level outputs. If you can’t use a pre-amp then you don’t have much choice but to run a line out from your receiver or to record to tape, and then connect, say, the headphone jack from a walkman to the line-in of your sound card (those levels match pretty well: just turn the walkman volume right down at first, then turn it up gradually until you get a good level). If you have any kind of mixer laying around, they often have inputs for «Magnetic Phono». Also, you could plug your turntable into the mixer «Magnetic Phono» input and then connect the line-out from the mixer into your sound card.
Once you get a connection that works, you’ll need a WAV editing / recording program to record with. GoldWave is a good one.
