Record Level via a Sweet Vinyl Sugar Cube

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hi.

I am recording some vinyl, and the signal goes through a Sweet Vinyl Sugar Cube SC1-Plus, to my PC

I have noticed that the sound of the wav file is very low.

I have it on 88%, but even if I have the level on 100%, it still needs to have the volume level raised to a decent amount, probably another 50% on top.

My Amp is integrated, so I don’t have a separate Pre-Amp.

Can anyone advise if there’s a way I can raise the level before recording please, instead of having to do it once the file is created?

TIA

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If you are recording directly into Audacity it’s 32-bit float levels means it can record the sound of a gnat landing on a flea all the way up to the sound of a supernova. It won’t matter how soft it is, as long as the waveforms are not flat-ish and the noise level is a lot lower than the signal, you can adjust the volume gain up and down as much as you want.

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What an interesting device. I’ve never heard of it before. How is everything connected up? Doesn’t anything in the signal chain have level control?

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Means what? There is a direct connection between the turntable and the A/D converter? Without a RIAA decoder/preamp, you won’t hear nice music. Such a device may be built into some turntables (but usually are not). They are integrated in amplifiers which have a “Phono” input.

So your connection should usually go from the turntable to the amplifier’s Phono in, and from the amplifier’s Line out to the A/D converter (your “Sweet Vinyl Sugar Cube”, which I never heard of before and which I did not search for). The Line out signal will have a reasonable and constant level, independent of how loud you listen to your music during recording.

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These aren’t my words but you can search everywhere about the device BombJack67 is talking about.

The SweetVinylCube needs a phono preamp in most cases because it only operates at line level to process audio, meaning it lacks the specialized RIAA equalization and signal gain required to boost raw turntable signals.

So a phono pre-amp will be needed to boosts higher volume recordings, though there is probably no need for one when the op can just amplify the sound using audacity for free.