HELP! not the beatles album
 

how do you record LPs onto the computer using audacity? i have the turntable plugged into the jacks on the back of my CPU, but it's not recording anything. HALP HALP HALP HALP.

Shit...I've always wonder how yr supposed to do that... it makes perfect sense now, though!
...(No, I can't help you... but now that I want to find out for myself, I could get help)...

WAIT! never mind!

for anyone who wants to know...

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help...=records-tapes

well, FUCK ME, but i don't think my STUPID MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT RECIEVER has enough jacks/the right jacks on it to do the job. COCKSUCKER.
i am really mad. i can't decide if i want to cry or if i want to smash something. right now i am sitting here laughing.

What the fuck are you laughing at???

nothing at all. maybe the fact that i'm laughing is the funny thing.

i put all of the electronic musical devices back where they belong. i've had enough anger and frustration for one night. i might have another reciever lying around somewhere, i'll try again some other time.

I have a special... thing.. that plugs into the USB that records cassettes and vinyl to mp3.

okay.

i used to know this

dear canks,

smashing always helps, preferrably if it's the skull of an unwary human being driftying by. glass bottles offer the additional benefit of leaving small sharp particles encrusted in the scalp, for hours and hours of surgical fun.

now that the streee is out, lemme ask: does your receiver have tape in/tape out jacks? i forget which is which, if "tape in" means "in from the tape" or "into the tape" but fuck, its 7 am, and i just woke up hungry.

the point is that one jack goes out from the receiver into the tape, so you can record records, radio, etc. the other catches the tape signal and plays it out to the speakers, so you can playback the shit.

you want to substitute your cassette tape for your computer. adios tapes. so, leave your turntable plugged to your receiver, and activate it as if you were to listen... then click on the tape button (tape in? tape out? shit...) so that the signal that's coming from the receiver from the turntable goes out to the tape/computer.

now 2 things: the other end of the cable should go into your line in in the computer. make sure it's not in mute or otherwise deactivated/fucked. if you run windows you click on the little speaker thing on the system tray (bottom right) and your audio controls are going to open. then you go options --> properties --> adjust volume for --> select the recording button. the recording control box will appear. select the "line in" as the input,you see.

is this getting too long? i hope not.

anyway, you could jack your turntable directly into your computer provided it has a preamp. old school turntables don't have this, a preamp is provided behind the "phono" jack in the receiver. that's why it's special. newer turntables often come with a built-in preamp so that you can connect them to any line-in jack in the receiver, because people no longer make too many receivers with "phono" jacks.

ok. i hope i've spared the cranium of an innocent-- for the time being anyway.

love,

beelzebub

I'll be over in about 20 minutes with a usb cable for it.

but that's what i did and it didn't work! line in is turned all the way up! i want to fucking kill someone!

http://www.adstech.com/products/RDX-...sp?pid=RDX-150

This particular product is what I use. It's worth the money and it comes with some cool de-fuzzing and de-crackling software and stuff. USB.

I suppose you already selected "line in" as the input in audacity, right?

:eek:

I need one of those things for my bands old shows/ half hour jams that we did using a shitty mic in a tape recorder.

Does anybody know how much one of those badboys that Danny posted costs?