Converting 45s to mp3s

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What is the easiest or cheapest way to do this?

 

[Slick5150]

http://www.buy.com/prod/innovative-t...216373492.html

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.buy.com/prod/innovative-t...216373492.html

the cheap cartridges in those might make it a pointless exercise...

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What do you mean?

 

[Rubycon]

The pickup in those is most likely ceramic. The sound quality is going to be mediocre at best. Also cheap turntables (record players) don't have a regulated speed drive so they often play too fast. Some as much as one hundred cents + pitch. It's very noticeable if you're a singer.

There will be rumble and audible noise in the outputs on these.

Now if you have a stack of 45s in the attic that aren't in the best of shape anyway and you just want something to get them to a format that's handy then this is probably the best way to do it.

There are places that will do transfers the right way and even remove surface noise, etc. but it can get expensive if you have a lot of discs.

 

[kornphlake]

Honestly the best way would be to buy the songs in a digital format, you'll probably get better quality than doing it yourself and none of the frustration. If you've got a good record player and a receiver with a phono pre-amp and line level output (tape loop) you could in theory connect the line level out on the receiver to the line level input on your sound card and use something like the sound recorder included with windows to capture the audio as an uncompressed .wav file.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Well the newest X-Fi HD USB actually has phono input.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...abs-_-29102032

So if you can nab a good vintage turntable for cheap it might be worth considering.

 

[piasabird]

What is a 45?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

What is a 45?

Like an LP but faster although not as fast as a 78 :biggrin:

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It looks like I just am going to download it. I thought something similar to a VHS to DVD converter would be possible for this conversion.

 

[Rubycon]

How the devil do you download a record player??!

 

[vshah]

How the devil do you download a record player??!

 

[NutBucket]

Only trouble is that it can difficult to find some of the b-sides digitally, at least from legal sources

But, from the sounds of it, the OP isn't dealing with that issue.

 

[mmntech]

It's really very simple. All you need is a turntable with 45rpm setting, stereo with preamp or an external preamp, and a sound recording program.

Hook the turntable up to the preamp, preamp to the PC with a 3.5mm to RCA adapter, and record the sound with Audacity. I assume you probably have this stuff already.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It's really very simple. All you need is a turntable with 45rpm setting, stereo with preamp or an external preamp, and a sound recording program.

Hook the turntable up to the preamp, preamp to the PC with a 3.5mm to RCA adapter, and record the sound with Audacity. I assume you probably have this stuff already.

I thought there were like some turntables with USB interfaces. I also am pretty much going to get maybe 1 song from each of my leftover records (nothing on the B side).

 

[mshan]

This guy is selling an usb Ion Turntable for about $50: http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109633

Audio Technica makes a nice AT-PL50 entry level turntable for about $10 more, if you connect it's analog outputs to your soundcard and use Audacity to rip records to your computer.