New Vinyl Getting Skips

[prosser99]

When I record the vinyl I listen to it through my head phones. It sounds excellent. But when I listen to the recording on Audacity, the drums are maybe %75 of their normal volume and clarity.

[prosser99]

I'm listening to the vinyl as I record it and during playback with some head phones attached to the sound card. When I play back the Audacity recording only %75 of the drum volume and clarity comes across. I'm getting a hiss and a rumble from the pre-amp. Prosser

[waxcylinder]

I'm getting a hiss and a rumble from the pre-amp.

If that is the case then the pre-amp is faulty and needs to be repaired or replaced.

However, rumble is far more likely to come from playing badly set up turntables or warped LPs - and hiss os often the result of surface noise on the vinyl. How do you know it is the amp that's giving the noise?

WC

[prosser99]

WC - the damn ground came off its connection. I re-connected it and now I have no hiss or rumble. The recordings are very close but not perfectly identical to the direct playing of vinyl. The drum sound is close but not all there. There's a local guy who understands your software real well. I may talk to him. I've already taken a lot of your time. But I was wondering about the pre amp.Could the pre amp drive some big speakers? Say Klipsch Heresy's? Even if it could I wouldn't have any sound control. Maybe I should get a receiver. But I've made progress. The addition of the needle and the pre amp sound great. I thank you for your help. Prosser

[whomper]

. But I was wondering about the pre amp.Could the pre amp drive some big speakers? Say Klipsch Heresy's?

you cant do that
you need an amplifier between preamp and big speakers

[prosser99]

thanks. that's good to know. I may just buy a good amp that has a pre amp in it. prosser

[whomper]

that is the usual way it is done. some people like all separate boxes. some like all in one. but to drive speakers you do need an amp somewhere that is fed from the preamp.

[kozikowski]

Speaker Amplifier is usually the one with the fins on the back, possibly a fan, and they almost always get warm and are heavy. It may or may not have volume controls on the front. It's designed to be plugged into a...

... Preamplfier which is the one with the volume control, possibly tone controls, balance control, switches to select Tape, CD, Radio, Phono, etc. and then a lot of other promotional fluff that you will never use like "Concert Hall Simulation."

There are two sound systems that take special work. Microphones deliver sound that is impossibly tiny and take a special Microphone Preamplifier to boost the performance up to normal level. Analog Turntables deliver music with very special distortion included. They take a Phono Preamplifer to boost the level and take the distortion out. The Preamplifier, above, can come with a Phono Preamp built-in, or you need to buy a separate one.

Microphone Preamplifiers are almost always separate. Those are usually too expensive to build into some other product -- at least the good ones. Those are the amplifiers that have their own religion. "I will seriously hurt anybody who tries to take my signal spritzer MicPre away from me."

Koz

[kozikowski]

Forgot the summary. You can buy an Integrated Amplifier with everything but the MicPre built-in. Those are the large units usually with a radio tuner. They have two big knobs, one to tune the radio and one to set the volume. Modern ones come with a remote that nobody will ever figure out. I know someone who has a modern integrated amplifier with a "reboot" button on the back.

Personally, I'd be putting that one on eBay.

Koz

[prosser99]

You guys,with the new needle, quality pre-amp (DJ), and quality sound card (Behringer), I'm getting excellent sound. My only complaint is the recording. I'm not hearing in the recording what I'm hearing on vinyl directly. Maybe its impossible to get the same quality.


Regarding ampliphiers does more power translate into cleaner sound?

Thanks, Prosser