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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

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.

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