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Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2008 Need a soundtrack for a summer evening or road trip? Unlock your musical past by converting old LPs and tapes to MP3, then create mix discs or iPod playlists of your favorites. All you need is Easy Media Creator 10 and a turntable. You can dig up your old one, or borrow one from a friend. The process is quick and painless. Creator 10 makes it easy to get great results with its LP & Tape Assistant. Even better, once you've made your recording, you can put away those LPs, preventing further wear and tear, and preserving them for future generations. You can also go on to make CD and DVD compilations of your musical memories perfect for family reunions, anniversaries and birthdays even combining them with tracks from digital sources like CDs or Internet radio. This article shows you how, step by step. One note before we start. If the LP or cassette you want to transfer to CD has been published on CD, you may want to buy the CD rather than make a copy. This is not for copyright reasons you are perfectly within your rights to make a CD copy of an album you already own for personal use. The fact is that a commercial CD will likely be far better quality than any copy you can make yourself, even with a topnotch turntable and sound card. That said, if you have records that were never issued as CDs, or family audiotapes you want to preserve, transferring these analog sources to CDs makes perfect sense, and Creator 10 makes it simple. Step 1: Use a Clean Source When digitizing an analog audio signal it's important to make sure you get the best signal into the computer before recording. While Creator 10 has a cleanup tool, this should be viewed as a secondary cleaning. Make sure that you wipe your LPs (with a soft, lintfree cloth or record brush). If you have a lot of material to record, you might also consider replacing the needle in your turntable if you can't remember the last time you did so. Similarly, make sure your cassette deck heads are clean, and that you engage the same noisereduction technology (Dolby B or C, etc) used when the tape was recorded. Not all decks support all technologies. Step 2: Connect Things Up Depending upon whether you have a record or cassette, you will have to use a slightly different technique to connect your sound source to your computer. For tapes and other linelevel audio sources, including TVs, VCRs, DVD players, stereo receivers, and MP3 players, you should ideally use a player that has lineout jacks (usually two RCA plugs), and connect these jacks to the linein minijack of your PC's sound card. If your portable tape player lacks lineout jacks, you can also use aheadphone output; though this will require more work in adjusting levels (see Step 3). If you're recording from an LP, you'll likely need to run it through a receiver or amplifier with a "phono preamp" first because most turntables put out a signal that is much lower than a standard line signal. Connecting this directly to the computer will not work. Most home receivers and amplifiers have a special input for connecting the turntable. You then use the lineout from the amplifier (often labeled tape out) to the linein of your PC. In most cases you'll need a cable with dual RCA male plugs on one end to plug into your source deck, and a stereo male miniplug on the other to connect to your computer. Finally, there are newer USB turntables that provide a direct USB input to your computer. These are the easiest to connect. Step 3: Choose Recording Input and Adjust Levels Now you're ready to begin recording! Choose "Convert LPs and Tapes" from the Creator Home screen Audio task list. The LP & Tape Assistant will open, and you'll see a Recording window with options for selecting your audio input and adjusting the recording level. Click the "Recording Setup Guide" button for instructions on choosing ...
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