{"id":2039,"date":"2017-02-04T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2017-02-04T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T14:22:13","slug":"back-to-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"Back to Vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in day I used to buy LPs then cassettes when needing mix tapes and portable Walkman music and then onto of course CDs before digital. However with the resurgence in vinyl I decided it was time to connect up the record player again. Not having a hifi set up, I wondered about streaming through the computer.<\/p>\n

Using Audacity<\/a> this was simple. Audacity is a free open source and cross platform piece of software for multi-track recording and editing.<\/p>\n

In Linux I needed to use Audacity due to the audio driver being quite simple.<\/p>\n

In Audacity the monitoring tool will play from the microphone (record player connects through jacks into a 3.5mm plug to the rear mic on my motherboard).<\/p>\n

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Then turn on the Software Playthrough option if the sound doesn’t come through on its own. This does stutter a bit though under load and so a hardware pass through is one thing to investigate.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, the task is way simpler in Windows and the Realtek setup sorted it once the mic volume was turned up.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, up and running now – yay!!<\/p>\n

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