Vista - Recording LP's to a computer

I am thinking of getting a USB turntable so I can record and then get rid of my vinyl records.
Do these work well?
Is there any additional software neccessary for optimum recording?

Thanks

Hi Bruce,

Welcome to the forum. Yes USB turntables work well, and yes you will benefit from other software Magix music maker and audacity spring to mind

I hope this helps

Pooch

I wouldn't get rid of that vinyl if I were you! Save them and if they aren't already someday they will be worth a lot more then what you paid for them!

Thanks for replying, Pooch.
Nbfiore,
Most of the album covers were flood damaged a couple of years ago. I figure I've got one good cleaning and use left out of the records themselves. Whatever is in good shape I'll probably donate to one of the local college radio stations.
They take up so much space and I'm getting tired of dragging them around.

I know the feeling but I can't quite bring myself to chuck them. There are a lot of memories attached to these lumps of vinyl.

Pooch

I would connect a turn table to a receiver then equilizer. Then, you can adjust the hissing and background noise from the recordings.

Perhaps this reply is a bit late. I've been doing this for a while and it works very well. I use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 11. An absolutely top rate program that is easy to start with but has sophisticated options. I had a very expensive (in it's day) Bang & Olufsen turntable. So I picked up a used integrated amp (power & pre-amp combined) that had a phono input. I ran one of the tape outputs from RCA jacks/cables to stereo mini plug into sound card input. Volia! Works marvelously. Yes, you can just buy a phono pre-amp and go thru that to the PC or get one of the new USB turntables but if you already own a nice unit it will work fine if you follow what I did. Burned CD's sound like commercial productions if you use the clean up options in Magix, provided the LP's were half decent to start. No program can work miracles. The process is relatively quick. The longest part being the playback of the LP! One nice thing, the program auto pauses until you flip sides and auto recognizes and marks tracks except in some LP's where sonngs blend into each other in which case you mark them manually. I highly recommend it.

I'm downloading it as we speak. I tried audacity, it works OK but it seems fussy.
Thanks for taking the time to reply

Best of Luck, let us know how this works for you!