USB Turntable

HUFCsteve

Have bought a USB Turntable and have connected it to my PC using a USB cable. The only sound I can hear from the Turntable is very faint, direct off the vinyl (and not through my speakers).

I have googled the issue but am none the wiser - talks about CODEC, soundcards, etc but really don't have a clue what to do.

Is the USB Turntable capable of playing sound through my PC's speakers and if so - how?!?

googler

Did you get any software or an instruction manual with the TT?

tom15387202

buy it on CD

HereAgain_2

Hmmmm...

Have you looked at the PlayBack Devices within your OS and enabled them?

In addition, look here

No need to buy anything, on CD or otherwise.

neilwoods

HUFCsteve wrote: »

Have bought a USB Turntable and have connected it to my PC using a USB cable. The only sound I can hear from the Turntable is very faint, direct off the vinyl (and not through my speakers).

I have googled the issue but am none the wiser - talks about CODEC, soundcards, etc but really don't have a clue what to do.

Is the USB Turntable capable of playing sound through my PC's speakers and if so - how?!?

Simple answer is no, they are not designed to be played back through a pc's speaker. They are for archiving your vinyl.

So archive the vinyl as an mp3 and then play those back through your pc speakers

HereAgain_2

neilwoods wrote: »

Simple answer is no, they are not designed to be played back through a pc's speaker. They are for archiving your vinyl.

So archive the vinyl as an mp3 and then play those back through your pc speakers

Close enough. But you can play through the speakers when you are recording, as per the link in my post.

neilwoods

HereAgain wrote: »

Close enough. But you can play through the speakers when you are recording, as per the link in my post.

Yes you can on some of them. But i answered in regards to playing through the PC speakers, didnt reply to using external seeing as you had already mentioned it. :doh:

Tiexen

watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA4pbEkPbBk

you'll need this software (free)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.

HereAgain_2

neilwoods wrote: »

Yes you can on some of them. But i answered in regards to playing through the PC speakers, didnt reply to using external seeing as you had already mentioned it. :doh:

You should be able to on all of them.

Set up Audacity to record from the turntable
The turntable must be switched on and its USB cable connected to the computer before launching Audacity, because Audacity is not able to recognise a device if you plug it in while it's already running.
Go to the Device Toolbar (or if you are using a legacy version of Audacity prior to 1.3.8, go to the Audio I/O tab of Preferences).
Select the USB Audio CODEC as the recording device and select your inbuilt sound device or sound card by name as the playback device. If you are on Windows, do NOT choose Microsoft SoundMapper for the playback device. On Windows 7 or Vista, you can try Microsoft SoundMapper as the recording device if the "USB Audio Codec" choice doesn't record.
Set recording channels to 2 (stereo) if you want to record in stereo, or set to 1 (mono) for mono recording.
Go to the Transport Menu and check "Software Playthrough" to be "on" to hear the turntable through the computer speakers;

prowla

Yep - Audacity will do it - I had a USB turntable for a while.
And it will play through your PC's speakers.

HUFCsteve

HereAgain wrote: »

You should be able to on all of them.

Brilliant - it works! My son will be pleased.:beer: