Vinyl ripping help please.

[nathan]

I am trying to rip vinyl to mp3. My record deck comes with the red and white audio out leads. I bought a adapter so that these two leads would go into a stereo 3.5" jack so that my turntable would plug straight into my laptops line in port. I try it and am getting the crappest recording. with my volume turned up to full you can just about hear it. Then I check out the FAQ for the software I am using and it says this. Is it true?

Do not connect a turntable directly to your computer. The signal from a turntable is distorted; it must be corrected by passing it through a phono pre-amp or a receiver with a “phono” input.

 

[nathan]

lol

I am trying to rip vinyl to mp3. My record deck comes with the red and white audio out leads. I bought a adapter so that these two leads would go into a stereo 3.5" jack so that my turntable would plug straight into my laptops line in port. I try it and am getting the crappest recording. with my volume turned up to full you can just about hear it. Then I check out the FAQ for the software I am using and it says this. Is it true?

Do not connect a turntable directly to your computer. The signal from a turntable is distorted; it must be corrected by passing it through a phono pre-amp or a receiver with a “phono” input.

I sorted this myself. Have a shitty tower of a stereo and instead of connecting the turntable directly to the laptop I just connected the stereos headphone port to the laptop and it worked like a dream

 

[sgt.lead]

You need to go straight into your amp then from your amp into your comp I would say

 

[ruffers]

Aha!

http://www.oldskoolanthemz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53126