Re: [LAU] from cassette/LP to cd (which hardware?)

From: Jan Depner <eviltwin69@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Dec 19 2007 - 03:30:25 EET

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:03 +0100, Emiliano Grilli wrote:
> Tuesday, 18 December 2007 alle 15:17:56, Studio 32 ha scritto:
> >
> > Thanks for the advices (still welcome).
> >
> > What about the hardware part? Just a LP player, and a onboard
> > soundcard? And how should I make the connection?
>
> You can't plug the turntable directly to the soundcard, you have to use
> a preamp that has RIAA equalization:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
>
> Typical home stereo amplifiers have that on the "phono" input.
> You can then take the "tape" outputs to the computer.
>
> Or you can try to fix the eq in software but even if I've never tried I
> don't think it sounds as good. I believe that there are some modern
> preamps that have a phono input (m-audio, maybe?) but I've never
> investigated them so much.
>

    Very simple solution. Run the turntable outputs into ANY kind of
preamp, run the preamp into JAMin using the RIAA EQ curve (included in
the examples directory), record with Ardour or other JACK enabled
recorder.

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Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
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