If your turntable's functional and if you can hook it up to a more modern stereo centre/CD player, then you may be just about there: all you need is a lead from the CD player's output (the headphone or external speaker output) to the input socket of your computer. This is easily obtainable at your nearest branch of RadioShack or the like.
If you can't hook up your turntable to the music centre but it's one of those outfits that combines turntable with cassette player/recorder, you can go the route of making cassettes of the LPs, then sticking the cassettes into the music centre and recording from them. There's a certain loss of quality, for obvious reasons, but if all the equipment is top-notch then this isn't noticeable (and actually helps get rid of some of the hisses and pops!).
My own conclusion, though, was that I anyway needed a decent turntable that gave good sound quality and didn't hum, and that, all things considered, $77 wasn't too steep a price.
As noted, you can get a free version of the StepVoice recorder in order to digitize the stuff you play into the computer. Go to the SVR site (if you can't find it by googling, gimme a yell and I'll see if I can retrace my steps to the URL) and hunt around until you find the tiny print saying, "Oh, if you're really so ghastly that you want a free version without all the exciting bells and whistles that you'll never, ever use, click here to download it, scum." The software takes a bit of getting used to, but thereafter is a delight and dead simple. Or you can use the Pyro software that comes with the deck.
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Date: 2007-11-17 03:39 pm (UTC)If you can't hook up your turntable to the music centre but it's one of those outfits that combines turntable with cassette player/recorder, you can go the route of making cassettes of the LPs, then sticking the cassettes into the music centre and recording from them. There's a certain loss of quality, for obvious reasons, but if all the equipment is top-notch then this isn't noticeable (and actually helps get rid of some of the hisses and pops!).
My own conclusion, though, was that I anyway needed a decent turntable that gave good sound quality and didn't hum, and that, all things considered, $77 wasn't too steep a price.
As noted, you can get a free version of the StepVoice recorder in order to digitize the stuff you play into the computer. Go to the SVR site (if you can't find it by googling, gimme a yell and I'll see if I can retrace my steps to the URL) and hunt around until you find the tiny print saying, "Oh, if you're really so ghastly that you want a free version without all the exciting bells and whistles that you'll never, ever use, click here to download it, scum." The software takes a bit of getting used to, but thereafter is a delight and dead simple. Or you can use the Pyro software that comes with the deck.