I am a total newbie to Audacity and need help getting started. I have a MacBook Pro running MacOS Tahoe and want to record old vinyl albums onto an external HDD. I have an older audio technica turntable with a USB output. I have tried YouTube but they all seem to address recording of my own music rather than recording from vinyl records. Do you know of any applicable videos or documentation for this purpose? Thanks very much.
Bob
Googling AUDACITY VINYL would probably get you this link.
Hi Bob,
First off, do NOT record your albums direct to an external drive. You will have problems if you do. Record and edit on the internal hard drive. You can, of course, save them to the external drive for archiving but, if you work on them again, copy them back to the internal drive for editing etc.
The bit in the manual you need is this: Digitising LPs and tapes
This YouTube video might help: Copying vinyl to computer but there are others to be found.
Mark B
Thanks, Mark. My first reply to you came back as undeliverable so I’m trying again.
I will not be editing the music, but will follow your suggestion anyway and record to my internal drive first. In the future, I may want to do some editing so this advice will come in handy. Thanks again.
Bob
Thanks very much!
Bob
I think you will. At least, you’ll be separating the individual parts (= songs) of the album. And, maybe, also adjust the music’s volume level.
In addition: do not forget to authorize Audacity to access “microphone” in your system settings → Privacy and Security.
If you can read German, I have some time ago made a description on what to do when recording LPs or cassettes. Let me know if you want to have it.
If audio quality is important to you, I would suggest cleaning the LPs thoroughly to reduce the amount of editing needed to remove noise etc.
Actually, I speak German so please provide what you have on this subject. Vielen dank!
Just sent you a personal message with Dropbox links. Viel SpaĂź!