Recording LP's to CD's

[Ned Land]

Could anyone kindly help? I'm trying to preserve my vinyl collection by burning the albums to recordable CD's. However, I'm not sure how to set up the connection between my hi-fi amplifier (a good old Ferrograph) and my pc base unit. The amp has phono input sockets for aux, radio, tape record and tape replay plus a headphone jack. At the rear of the pc is a single 4 or 5 pin Din socket labelled S-V/CCD and two phono sockets, currently bridged by a short black lead. These are labelled Line In and Audio. Could anyone help me with recommended connections and/or lead types I need to get cracking? Kind regards, Ned.

[lisaj]

You need to plug your turntable into your amp using it's phono input. You then need to take the tape record output, and plug this into your PC's line input. If your amp is anything remotely normal, it should output to the tape record whenever its playing anything, including the phono input from the turntable.

[StuDapples]

Having got a signal to your computer, you could do a lot worse than buy a small piece of software called RipVinyl. It allows you to tweak the easy controls and then it recognises each track as a new file. This means you don't have to record the whole side as one file or to sit there and seperating them manually. I can't remember exactly how much it cost but I don't think it was more than a fiver. Another piece of software you could use is WAVclean, the use of which I think is obvious. Again I don't think it cost very much.