Anyone using a phono preamp?

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serotoninsteve
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Post by serotoninsteve » Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:29 pm

http://supportde.terratec.net/modules.p ... it&lid=364

I can´t compare it to real phonopreamps, but to my ears it sounds pretty clean!

Just connect your turntable to a line in, ground it somewhere to your soundcard, put the plugin on a track in Live and route the audio to a second track where you record the signal.
For me it sounds ok!

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Post by detroitechno » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:50 pm

serotoninsteve wrote:http://supportde.terratec.net/modules.p ... it&lid=364

I can´t compare it to real phonopreamps, but to my ears it sounds pretty clean!

Just connect your turntable to a line in, ground it somewhere to your soundcard, put the plugin on a track in Live and route the audio to a second track where you record the signal.
For me it sounds ok!

Greetings
as cool as an idea that is and convenient, it will have horrible audio quality.
an RIAA pre-amp is 'amping' the signal properly, as you probably already know. but what this software is doing, is raising all volumes software wise, so your input which has lets say -80db of noise is being raised through the roof! the noise and artifacts will be considerably higher, extremely higher than if you used a phone pre.

I would resort to using that software only in an absolute must situation.

Definitely highly non-recommended.
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