On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:44:15 +1200 ampacker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:08 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: > > Thanks. That's what I needed to know. > > > > Yes, I've got a turntable, with stereo output; I've got an > amplifier - a nice > > little Fender Harvard. I just don't know how to connect > the two together and > > then to my soundcard. > > > > Wesley Parish > > > You don't want that amplifier for this project. Musical > instrument anps > and stereo amps are very different beasts. > > Most modern stereo amplifiers are not going to help you > either; they no > longer have phono preamp circuitry. If someone offers you > the loan of a > stereo amplifier, it must have a "phono" setting on its > input select > switch, else don't bother with it. > > Outboard phono preamps, which apply some amplification and > RIAA > equalisation to the feeble signal generated by a magnetic > phono > cartridge, are available for about $50. Try a decent audio > shop, or > Dick Smith, or Jaycar. > > You plug your turntable cables into the inputs of the phono > preamp, the > outputs of the preamp into the line level inputs of your > sound card > (you'll probably want a 2-RCA-plugs-to-3-mm-stereo-plug > cable for the > latter) and you'll be right. You won't even need a complete > stereo > amplifier. > > =====Andrew > Like I said this morning, I've got a battery powered preamp that'll connect your turntable to a sound card... -- Steve <[email protected]>
