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Most older TTs tend not to have preamps built in - they only started building them in when amps started being made with no phono input (sometime after the advent of CDs when the manufactureres assumed that vinyl would just disappear :D ). If you dont have the RIAA equalization applied (via a preamp)...

In which case you might want to consider an external soundcard - see this sticky thread for reviews of ones that are known to work with audacity: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477 Just a thought: you are passing the signal from the TT through a phono preamp - or your TT has...

If you have no volume comtrol on the TT - and if you are handy with a soldering iron - then this thread http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5080 has a response some way down fro Mikeymike which tells how to build an inline volume control.

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If you really can't get it to work (I know from reading other threads that lately there have been some conflicts bewteen Audacity and Lame versions - but I thought the developers had fixed all that) - then a suitable workaround would be to export as WAV and then find yourself a standalone WAV to MP3...

See this article in teh Audacity Wiki: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... e_computer

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The only case in which you might be able to work it is if the two speakers were at the far extremes of the L & R stereo channels - but I'm guessing this is unlikely ...

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Have you tried using the Amplify effect? Just select all the audio (CTRL+A will select the left - as will clicking in the Track Control Panel). The use Effect > Amplify - it will calculate a default level to get you to 0db, but personally I would choke that back a little to say -6db. Then do your WA...

I would (and indeed do) use Amplify and not Normalize. This is because Normalise works independently on each of the stereo tracks and brings each L & R up to the same level - theus the stereo balance and the stereo image can be destroyed. There has been much discssion on this topic in other thre...

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If you really can't get it to work (I know from reading other threads that lately there have been some conflicts bewteen Audacity and Lame versions - but I thought the developers had fixed all that) - then a suitable workaround would be to export as WAV and then find yourself a standalone WAV to MP3...