Recording vinyl to MP3 with Sound Blas

Hi All,
I'm a bit of a technophobe so please be kind.
I've just bought a Sound Blaster to record my vinyl into MP3s and I am having a bit of difficulty. The problem being my turntable has two leads coming from it (one red and one white) and there is only one 'Line In'. I've tried with just the red lead from the turntable into the Sound Blaster and just the white lead - it records the song and downloads it into an MP3 but on play back there is no sound. One thought is that I need to somehow get both the red and white lead into the Sound Blaster at the same time - a cable that connects those leads and di'verts them into one lead into the Sound Blaster - will this help with the sound?
Thanks for your patience,
John

Depends on soundblaster model and turntable system you have there but normally, you need
- a phono pre-amp w/ RIAA sage between the turntable and soundcard ... and
- a 2 x RCA to stereo mini jack adapter/cable to connect the turntable/pre-amp into soundcard
RIAA EQ needed for vinyls can be done by the software as well but, as the recording levels you get are maybe too low (though, this can be fixed by adding gain using software) I suggest, if needed, you either get an external phono pre-amp ($30-$xxxxxx) or connect the turntable using the tape or aux I/O on your stereo system (if there is one). This is done by connecting the PC into your Hi-Fi system as you would connect a cassette deck ... and use exact same settings for recording from turntable using PC as you do when record using cassette deck.
Some instructions over using software based RIAA EQ -
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=profaudio&message.id=2838
I think you get best results by using the 48kHz version + Voxengo recorder.
jutapa
Message Edited by jutapa on 03-29-2008 2:45 AM

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