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Below is a guide for recording vinyl or stereo cassettes using an Audigy soundcard.
SETUP
. To record a cassette using an Audigy with a front panel or an external box it is simply a matter of connecting the red and white RCA cables of the cassette player or amplifier into the corresponding colored jacks on the Audigy. These jacks will be labeled variously as Line In or 2 or Aux In or 2.
If you are using a basic internal Audigy you need a stereo 3.5mm mini jack to 2 female RCA cable, alternati'vely, you can plug a 3.5mm splitter into the card and the use 2 mono 3.5mm mini jack to female RCA cables. In both cases you then connect the cassette player or amplifier RCA cables into the female ends attached to the sound card.
2. To record vinyl the connections are the same as for cassettes. The important difference is that 99% of turntables need to be connected to a pre amplifier or intergrated amplifier and not directly to the Audigy. This is despite the fact the turntable also uses RCA outputs. The colors will be white and black or white and green but not red and white. Turntable output is from 0.2% to 2% (depending on cartridge type) of the power needed to make a decent recording.
The Audigy is sensiti've enough to process a direct connection between turntable and card but the results are not good, though impressi've.
3. To record in wave side of an LP requires - .5 gigabytes of hard dri've space so make sure you have enough room.
4. To setup recording and "monitoring" go to the mixer and select the appropriate source to hear what you are recording in the blue section and select the appropriate source to record using the red slider. If you are plugged into the card directly (at the back of the PC) the source will be Line In and if you are plugged in elsewhere the source will be labeled, eg Aux In or 2 Line In 2 or 3.
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5. Go to the player view and using the red down arrow next to the REC button select Show Recording Status.
6. Go back to the red down arrow and select Show Recording Format. There are a few options here which you need to consider. The most important consideration is whether you wish to perform post recording editing. For example, if you want to record the entire side of an LP you will need to edit the sound file to split the file into smaller song files. If you have scratches on the LP you will likely also want to edit the song. If you want to edit anything record in Stereo Wave.
For bitrate type choose constant and for quality choose 320.
If you wish to record song by song and do not wish to edit you can record in the other formats.
7. The player does provide very basic VU meters and an automatic recording volume control (ARVL). You can set recording volume automatically using ARVL or manually using the VU meters and volume slider. If you do not know the relationship between VU meters and sound quality use ARVL.
EDITING
There are 2 wave editors in the Creative bundle, Creative Wave Editor and WaveLab Lite. WaveLab is better.
8. If you have recorded an entire side of a cassette or LP you likely want to break it down into its component songs. To achieve this just load the file into WaveLab and cut and paste each track into a separate file. A horizontal line represents silence and is easy to use visually and you also have transport control for additional control.
9. After separating each track into a separate file there are some other editing options in WaveLab which are worth using. These include the ability to add 2 seconds silence at the start of each track, the ability to balance channels if your stylus was not perfectly balanced and the ability to reset the volume level for the recording.
0. You can also edit out cracks resulting from scratches in the LP manually. You can do this by either lowering the volume at the point of the scratch or by deleting those parts of the file where the scratch occurs. Deleting is probably preferable and is almost undetectable if done well. Its a fiddly job though.
. After editing use Creative Audio Converter to convert the wave file to your preferrred format.
USING NON BUNDLED SOFTWARE
There a number of software packages you can use but for the purpose of recording vinyl, one of the easiest to use is Audio Cleaning Lab although the sample rate is limited to 48KHz, although 24 bit and 320kbps is supported.
This software allows you to clean cracks and hisses etc but you will still need to remove some scratches manually using an editor. The good thing is that once that is done you have some "renastering" utilities that restore the sparkle lost during the cleaning process.Message Edited by shag on 09-2-2005 05:27 PM

shag wrote:
Below?is a?guide for recording vinyl or stereo cassettes using an Audigy soundcard.
SETUP.... If you are using a basic internal Audigy you need?a stereo 3.5mm mini jack to 2 female RCA cable, alternati'vely, you can plug a 3.5mm splitter into the card and the use 2 mono 3.5mm mini jack to female RCA cables. In both cases you then connect the cassette player or amplifier RCA cables into the female ends attached to the sound card. 2. To record vinyl the connections are the same as for cassettes. The important difference is that 99% of turntables need to be connected to a pre amplifier or intergrated amplifier and not directly to the Audigy. This is despite the fact the turntable also uses RCA outputs. The colors will be white and black or white and green but not red and white. Turntable?output is from?0.2% to 2% (depending on cartridge type) of the power needed to make a decent recording. The Audigy is sensiti've enough to?process a direct connection between turntable and card but the results are not good, though impressi've. ...
As a clarification, for?turntable connection,?you'll need a pre-amplifier with RIAA stage included. If you connect the turntable w/o RIAA stage then the RIAA "equalization" needs to be done? in some point by using software EQ (or hardware EQ). By connecting your turntable w/o RIAA stage you?get bassless and bright recordings (check the RIAA link below). There are plenty of separate pre-amps w/ RIAA stages available so?you can get one of those or?you could get some audio device as like Presonus Inspire, EMU 66/820, X-Fi Elite, etc. which do have this stage integrated. You?can?even find some software based solutions for this needed EQ (just search here as for an example and you'll find some presets for EQ (VST/DX) plugins). Some basic information over RIAA http://www.euronet.nl/~mgw/backgroun...ckground_.html?jutapa

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