Vinyl digitising to PC

For years now i have been digitising my vinyl ocllection to my pc.
I have not yet been 100% satisfied with the way the sound comes out...
I don't know if the vinyls are a bad press....
I've often wondered if the soundcard would matter but people have said not...
What i mean by that is, would the soundcard make a diffference to the recording itself?
Anyway for 2 years i have been using a Belt driven Numark TT-USB with a Concrode Elektro Ortofon Stylus going direct into my USB.
One of my old mates ripped his collection also and he had some tunes i also had.
His rips of them sounded a lot better! It's hard to explain but mine sounded like more of an 'outdoor' kind of sound.... too trebly.. Not very much bass in them.
I asked him if he had adjusted anything and he said no, all my levels were set to '0' as he was using an Ecler Nuo II mixer and a Technics MK5 Turntable.
I'm getting really fussy now and want the best in my rips. I just dont know what i'm doing wrong...
I am stuck because i don't know if it's an issue with my turntable, whether usb turntables are not the thing to use?, or even belt driven ones? Or even a completely different problem....
Would the earthing affect it at all?
He also told me he was using Monster RCA cables.
I have got my eye on a technics but i dont wanna wanna be spending up to 2 grand on equipment which MIGHT solve the problem.......
Pls help.
Cheers guys.

Hi,
If you use an external USB audio interface you will not need to use a soundcard since the USB interface sends digital data right into your USB port thus circumventing the sound card. Some USB audio interfaces have a built-in audio pre-amp (i.e. a pre-amp with RIAA decompression) as well as line level input. With a built-in audio pre-amp you need to make a judgement call on the quality of that amp. Talk to friends or take advice from folks on this forum - if someone has had good results with a built-in pre-amp then you can trust that you will get good results also.
A poor quality audio pre-amp is one of the problems with the Vestax TUB-2 that I bought. My Edirol does not have a built-in audio pre-amp so I need a separate one in the path - hence I use a beaten up DJ mixer in between my decks and the USB interface.
One other thing to look out for when buying a USB audio interface is whether it also has audio output. If it does, you can connect that to another amplifier/speaker set up and monitor what you are recording. Again, the TUB-2 does not have that so you can't hear yourself teeing up the stylus and getting the start point just right. Granted that most recording software has a monitor feature but that only works once you have started recording not when you are preparing to record. Also with the audio output, you can playback from the PC to the USB port and it will do digital-to-analog conversion and play through your amp. I do that all the time with AA3 - the Edirol USB interface is both my input and output device.
Andrew Coad
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:14:16 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Vinyl digitising to PC
Hi,
Thank you very much for your reply.
So can you all confirm that i dont need to change my soundcard? BUT only if i were using the 'Behringer UFO' Steve recommended or the 'Edirol USB interface' Skajam recommended? So if i were to use either or those 2 then i can stay put with my Realtek AC'97 as it wouldnt be involved as i'm going through USB and not line in right?
I noticed skajam that you said 'mixer or preamp' is the 'Edirol US' a Preamp? Basically could i just plug that straight into my Technics MK5 (when i buy one) and go straight into the PC's USB and that would be all i needed? If not, is that 'Behringer UFO' a preamp and would that do the same?I originally thought of this as needing the turntable, the behringer or edirol usb then straight into the pc from them?
Please correct me if im wrong.
Appreciate all your help fellas
Thank you.
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