USB Turntable

[ruffers]

Good idea?

http://www.ion-audio.com/home/produc...es/iTTUSB.html

[nathan]

thats quality. I can't find a price though. I really need one of those. otherwise I have to record to tape first at the mo

[ruffers]

Oops, sorry. $140 according to this - http://www.techdigest.tv/

[Northern Star]

thats not a bad price either

[brixtonite]

nice idea - don't understand the benefits this has over any other turntable - am i having a DOH! moment?

[Red Mancunian]

Looks good. But I wonder what the stylus quality is like?

[nathan]

Originally Posted by brixtonite

nice idea - don't understand the benefits this has over any other turntable - am i having a DOH! moment?

My turntable only has the red and white output cables so unless i had a really expensive sound card i have no line in on my laptop. Hopefully the adapter I have bought will sort it. But then I still have to deal with soundforge etc. This has its own built in software. Would save a lot of time and hastle

[brixtonite]

ez

arrr, I getcha - lappies are a mare for that sort of thing, the soundcards won't have more than a line in (even then, you're lucky), but you can get a 2 quid adapter from maplin to sort that...

Originally Posted by nathan

My turntable only has the red and white output cables so unless i had a really expensive sound card i have no line in on my laptop. Hopefully the adapter I have bought will sort it. But then I still have to deal with soundforge etc. This has its own built in software. Would save a lot of time and hastle

[turpieaj]

Before anyone rushes out to buy one of these - it seems like there is either a piece of information of the website or a seriously required piece of hardware missing - A preamp to boost the signals

Andy

[Mike]

Originally Posted by turpieaj

Before anyone rushes out to buy one of these - it seems like there is either a piece of information of the website or a seriously required piece of hardware missing - A preamp to boost the signals

Andy

Looks like the deck has a pre-amp built in, as the blurb says it has a line level output. There are a few other decks you can get that have a built in preamp to plug straight into a line input, but I've never seen a USB one before.

[sirius]

I dont get it.

Most soundcards have an input......and Audacity is, as far as I know, still Freeware.

Wonder if they do an adaptor from RCA to Usb lol. Could be cheaper.


Sirius.

[blue jammer]

The USB *may* be to transfer data to and from ya pc?

It's how its done with final scratch anyhow...

Just a thought (I haven't looked at the link btw, so I may be wrong)

[ilovepiano]

The link says it has LINE LEVEL RCA outputs, so you could put that straight into your soundcard, mixer, amp or whatever.

You can't plug a regular deck in your soundcard even if it has RCA inputs, unless you get a magic box to convert the PHONO signal to a LINE signal. But I guess the sound would go down the USB anyway and straight into your PC.

It's not just a case of amplifying the signal a bit, the whole EQ curve is altered too.

[Tim Acid]

just looks like another cheap usb gimmick to me....... cheapo plasticy thing that probably sounds shite