RobV
Sansui Power
I bought a cheap ($23+$4 s&h) from NewEgg) Sony CD-RW drive for my basement PC a couple of months ago. I haven't used it that much until last weekend....
My still wife likes to play her records (both LPs and 45s), but the ony TT is in the basement, and she doesn't go down there as much as I do (mancave). So I decided to put my unused gear to use. I've got a Sansui AU-919 mounted in a GX-5 rack, with a Technics SL-D2 direct drive TT sitting on top that was just collecting dust. I wheeled it (the GX-5 has casters) next to the PC (a PIII 733mhz dino running Win98) and connected the tape out of the 919 to the sound card's Line In jack.
The sound card, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, has no recording software, so I used Windows Sound Recorder. If you go into File-Properties, you can set the format to 44.1khz, 16bit, Stereo. The Edit menu also lets you delete 'dead air' at the beginning and end of each track.
The CD burning software that came with the Sony drive is called NTI CD Maker has a filter for cleaning up clicks and pops, and another for 'noise'. I only used the 'click and pop' filter. My wife's turntable back in the '70's was some kind of Garrard POS, but it must have had a decent neeedle, because the albums still sounded pretty good.
The resulting CDs sound much better than I thought they would! Last weekend it was a Paul Simon compilation disc; this weekend it Bob Welch (French Kiss) and Eric Clapton (Time Pieces). It was fun so far, but I think Barry Manilow is next....
uke:
My still wife likes to play her records (both LPs and 45s), but the ony TT is in the basement, and she doesn't go down there as much as I do (mancave). So I decided to put my unused gear to use. I've got a Sansui AU-919 mounted in a GX-5 rack, with a Technics SL-D2 direct drive TT sitting on top that was just collecting dust. I wheeled it (the GX-5 has casters) next to the PC (a PIII 733mhz dino running Win98) and connected the tape out of the 919 to the sound card's Line In jack.
The sound card, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, has no recording software, so I used Windows Sound Recorder. If you go into File-Properties, you can set the format to 44.1khz, 16bit, Stereo. The Edit menu also lets you delete 'dead air' at the beginning and end of each track.
The CD burning software that came with the Sony drive is called NTI CD Maker has a filter for cleaning up clicks and pops, and another for 'noise'. I only used the 'click and pop' filter. My wife's turntable back in the '70's was some kind of Garrard POS, but it must have had a decent neeedle, because the albums still sounded pretty good.
The resulting CDs sound much better than I thought they would! Last weekend it was a Paul Simon compilation disc; this weekend it Bob Welch (French Kiss) and Eric Clapton (Time Pieces). It was fun so far, but I think Barry Manilow is next....
uke:
