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I'm trying to digitize some vinyl and I'm having a problem. I'm getting a loud background hum.
Right now, here's the setup. I have the turntable feeding into the audio in for the receiver. Then I have a cable going from one of the audio out ports to the line-in port on the PC.
Before that I had the turntable feeding directly into the line-in and there was no noise.
The reason I did it the current way is that I thought that the pre-amp would boost the signal but it looks like it's just working as a pass through since there's no boost.
So how should I do this? Do I need to get a phono stage pre-amp and use that to feed the line-in?
I've digitized tapes before going directly from a tape deck and there was plenty of signal for the recording but I'm not getting nearly enough signal coming from the turntable even when I boost the signal in the PC line-in control panel. And I don't want to overwhelm the PC sound card by trying to feed it from the headphone jack plus then there would be the issue of the line noise that I'm getting.
Right now, here's the setup. I have the turntable feeding into the audio in for the receiver. Then I have a cable going from one of the audio out ports to the line-in port on the PC.
Before that I had the turntable feeding directly into the line-in and there was no noise.
The reason I did it the current way is that I thought that the pre-amp would boost the signal but it looks like it's just working as a pass through since there's no boost.
So how should I do this? Do I need to get a phono stage pre-amp and use that to feed the line-in?
I've digitized tapes before going directly from a tape deck and there was plenty of signal for the recording but I'm not getting nearly enough signal coming from the turntable even when I boost the signal in the PC line-in control panel. And I don't want to overwhelm the PC sound card by trying to feed it from the headphone jack plus then there would be the issue of the line noise that I'm getting.