4/25/2006: Girl scouts harmless in 1976

[dar512]

My hardware setup is turntable to preamp to rca stereo cable to stereo miniplug to audio card. As zippy said, you can use a stereo for the preamp, but I didn't have any that I wanted to move around, and the preamp cost $30 at best buy.

I use Wave Corrector to record, de-click, and normalize. Wave Corrector does a good job of automatic click removal, but no software will get everything. Wave Corrector has additional tools to allow you to finish up by hand. The documentation will tell you everything else you need to know.

Before you start recording, go into the windows sound dialog and go to the setup for recording [In the properties dialog]. Uncheck everything except for the line-in. That way you won't end up recording the other boops and beeps that your computer makes.

One more thing. De-clicking can take quite a bit of time to do. Plus, with home equipment, there is no way to do as good a job as the record companies can do. So before you knock yourself out, see if your local library has a cd of the album you're looking to convert.