My dad wants to know the best way (or even a way) to record from vinyl to CD. Thoughts?
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You should be able to plug the old turntable into the Line In on a computer, record it, then burn the resulting WAV file to CD.
There are programs to help with this:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=lp+to+cd
There’s usually issues with feedback, so grounding the record player isn’t a bad idea. There are a handful of widgets on the market that acts as all-in-one bridges between a player and a PC USB port – prices vary.
And just the other day I saw that someone sells a PC turntable, but at $130US, it’s probably not useful unless your dad is looking to rip a whole lot of records.
Hell, if we could find clean power in our apartment, we could do it – I have a turntable, you have a mixer and fancy PC recording set up. Dot dot Dot…
Grounding…as in putting little rubber boots on it?
Now from the line in – is there a basic recording program that comes on an average Windows o/s that would record it as a wav? or straight to mp3?
If you’re getting a hum on the recording use a ground loop isolator:
http://www.radioshack.com/sm-see-all-needs-and-wants–pi-2062214.html
Also if you use Nero to burn the CD you can define the track points in the software when you go to burn the big wav file.
You can use Audacity (http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity) to record to WAV or MP3. If it’s going straight to CDs you can play in a typical CD player I’d suggest 16-bit, 44 KHz WAV. It’s about 12 MB per minute, but no degradation in quality.