Rip LP's to Digital

"Thanks for your responses. The simple route I know. I'd like to use software because I do have some older material that I'd like to digitize and take the pops and clicks out of."

It really doesn't matter. Once you burn the CD, your music is digital and you can further process it however you wish. Just rip the CD to your hard drive.

If you're on a tight budget, here's a useful link for you. From this page you can download a self contained OS filled with free, open source software for AV creation and manipulation. All you need to do is download the file and burn it to a DVD. The whole thing runs directly from the DVD and does nothing to alter your hard drive with Windows. When you're done using it, reboot the PC and remove the DVD, and you'll go right back to Windows. There should be software on this DVD to do anything you could ever think of.

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I am not prepared to enter the debate as to approaches to A to D conversion, I have played with a A to D converter with software and found it to be easy to do however don’t know what might be best in that approach. I think i might be interested in the hardware approach as mentioned by ZD.

No need to apologize for your system, I believe it represents a very well thought out budget high end system from the early 80’s. Given that you are going to do the work yourself I would think your servicing would provide a quality sonic return on your investment in time and $.

Enjoy!

You should look at some of the handheld recorders, like those from Tascam. They are generally used for portable recording using their built in mics, but they also have a line input. You just take line level outputs from your preamp. The entry level Tascam DR-05 is a good entry level one that goes up to 96 KHz sampling rate. It has a micro SD card that you can use for transferring the file to the PC.

Vinyl Studio is the way to go (imo) for breaking up the file into tracks, tagging them, and doing cleanup. It lets you do hum and hiss removal and will do click and pop removal.

There is a thread on CA where the poster ended up using the DR-05 and Vinyl Studio and he is quite happy with it.

Inexpensive Vinyl Ripping

Sweetwaters is a good place to look at multiple inexpensive A to D converters.

Don't. The time spent and the quality of the sound, no matter what the converter and software, will disappoint. The conversion process is time intensive, better you just buy used Cd's of your favorite albums, and spend time just enjoying the music, not the gear.

Buconero, after trying LP conversion the used CD approach is what i have taken. Download a used CD copy on my computer used the CD in my car, or better yet, make playlists and burn them for my car. Far less time consuming.