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    Moving vinyl recordings to CD

    My wife would like to have her old LP family Christmas albums recorded on CD's. Could someone educate me on how this might be possible? I have a late model laptop to burn them with and an A/D converter with various outs, but how would I interface the converter to the laptop? Or am I missing an eaiser way. Thanks, Robin
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    depending on what (soundcard/pregrams) you have on the computer, you may be able to just plug RCA,s into the soundcard and just start the recording process.... assuming you are running the TT signal through a phono pre-amp.....


    Also if you have a DVD-R machine, you can normally record audio CD,s to it, also using RCA cords....

    Good luck!

    And please get a decent Cart/stylus set for best results.....

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    I use a sound blaster Audigy soundcard to record vinyl. I run a Denon DP-37F turntable with a Shure V15-V xmR cartridge. My preamp ups the signal to line level and I send it into my soundcard. I record the tracks into the computer with a program called sound forge, expensive, but you can uyse other programs. Audiograbber (www.audiograbber.com) is a decent converter that will take the signal right from the preamp and write to a mp3. This is good if all you want is to record them and don't need to clean up the records or edit them. PM if you need specific help, I have been doing this for a few years already and have a few tricks .

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    The problem for me is that the Sony Vaio laptop that is my only computer, does not have rca's. There is a microphone mini plug. I don't know if it's stereo?? When I look in "my computer"_"Device manager"_ "sound video game controllers" I find Sigma-Tel C-Major Audio.

    Maybe I can find a rca stereo to mini plup adapter??
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    Quote Originally Posted by rloggie
    Maybe I can find a rca stereo to mini plup adapter??
    Absolutely - those are readily available - any Radio Shack, etc., will have them. And yes, the mini-plug is stereo. I've done this many times to get casette tapes into my system, (using the outputs from the preamp it's plugged into). It should work fine as long as you use preamp outputs, or something else that has the correct RIAA curve for phono cartridges.

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    Thanks for all the info. Radio Shack here I come.
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