Whats the best way to digitise your vinyl?

[theledge]

There will be a difference compared to downloaded digital stuff (that hasnt been pressed to a record, played through a needle, sent thru a soundcard etc etc) but some would say that's got its plus points

What soundcard/hardware are you using? You don't need a super-duper soundcard, but it helps to have something better than your internal pc sound.

I know these are really simple things but make sure you have clean, new needles, and get the levels right: your input level in Soundforge or whatever, should be as high as possible without clipping, about -6-12db is fine

Hope that helps anyway

[tots]

really appreciate your advice guys!im recording through my mixer straight in to my p.c and doing all the things you mention,needles are good and i use a yamaha ds1 soundcard,which is pretty good!

I think like you say,the way to go forward is to keep downloading and maybe mix my existing vinyl with the digital files,im using serato so i can do that,was just hoping to drop the burden of taking my plastic everywhere i play and get my collection saved to the hard drive but i suppose the more i download the less ill use my wax! Just a bit of a barstuard that ive spent over £300 on vinyl a couple a months before i got the scratch software!