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Transferring vinyl to digital

  • 08-02-2011 12:00pm
    #1
    Clanket
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    Hows it going lads.

    I've a bunch of old vinyl that I'm looking to transfer to digital. Am looking for the best and cheapest way to do it.

    At the moment I'm thinking I'll get a loan of a turntable and plug it directly into my Apogee Duet and record the audio in Logic. I'm assuming this can be done but I've never recorded anything through the duet. I use it only for plugging in the monitors at the moment.

    Does anyone have any thoughts on this or better solutions.

    Thanks in advance.

    Al.


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  • #2
    mordeith
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    Not sure about the Apogee but the way I do it is just take a line out from my mixer and plug it into the line in / mic socket on the PC / laptop and record into something like Audacity or EXP Studio editor (both free).


  • #3
    Clanket
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    mordeith wrote: »
    Not sure about the Apogee but the way I do it is just take a line out from my mixer and plug it into the line in / mic socket on the PC / laptop and record into something like Audacity or EXP Studio editor (both free).

    Don't have a mixer. That's why I'm wondering can you plug a deck straight into the Apogee.

    Thanks anyway.


  • #4
    mordeith
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    I'm pretty sure that unless the Apogee can act as an ampifier it won't be able to transfer the audio signal for the PC to record from. Do you have a stero system with phono inputs? You could then take a line from the headphone socket to the PC and record that way


  • #5
    Clanket
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    I think the Apogee does have built in amplifiers. It has 2 mic inputs and 2 high impedence inputs. Presume these can be used.


  • #6
    mordeith
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    Clanket wrote: »
    I think the Apogee does have built in amplifiers. It has 2 mic inputs and 2 high impedence inputs. Presume these can be used.

    Just took a quick look at the Duet and with the breakout cable you should have no bother connecting the turntable.


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  • #7
    splitrmx
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    Clanket wrote: »
    I think the Apogee does have built in amplifiers. It has 2 mic inputs and 2 high impedence inputs. Presume these can be used.
    They can't be used. A record player output isn't a normal signal that just needs boosting, it needs to be equalised to RIAA standards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization). Basically in layman terms, you need to plug your record player into a phono preamp, and then plug the output from the phono preamp into whatever interface (eg that Apogee people suggested) you're going to use.


  • #8
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    splitrmx wrote: »
    They can't be used. A record player output isn't a normal signal that just needs boosting, it needs to be equalised to RIAA standards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization). Basically in layman terms, you need to plug your record player into a phono preamp, and then plug the output from the phono preamp into whatever interface (eg that Apogee people suggested) you're going to use.

    Cheers. I did see phono preamps mentioned somewhere when i was looking at this the other day. So I'll have to get a loan of a mixer aswell. Thanks for confirming.


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