If you talk to someone born after 1990 about playing records on a turntable they will probably look at you like you just spoke a foreign language. For those of us who grew up getting our tunes from LPs and 45 it’s probably been a while since you’ve seen or heard one. That all changed for me today and in a very cool way.
I’ve got about 200 records I’ve collected starting in the late 60s with Sonny and Cher’s In Case You’re in Love to sometime in the late 80s with who knows what. I haven’t heard any of these records since I got married in 1994 because they have been hidden in the garage from hell. Now that Jenny finally got it cleaned out we found the old records but alas how was I going to play said records since I don’t have a record player anymore.
What I really wanted to do was convert them to CD or MP3 so I could take them with me on my bike or in my car. I thought about getting a turntable and hooking it to my sound card but then I found this!
It’s a turntable made to copy your records to the computer using USB and software. The software they include is Audacity which Daryl has mentioned on his blog and I have used for quite a while.
This thing is so cool! I’ve converted a couple of albums so far and I plan to spend the weekend doing more.
I’ve got a bunch of record albums, too, including 4 or 5 Beatles albums and Bill Cosby’s “RIGHT!”. (Bet you all wondered who ended up with that one, huh?)
Comment by Donna — Friday June 1, 2007 @ 11:11 pm
We’ve got a turn table. And eric’s got a record collection. We love em.
Comment by Jocelyn — Saturday June 2, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
My memories of records are first: 78s, an then a very great advance to 33s. Now, that’s old!
Comment by Mom — Saturday June 2, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
This will also do 78s but it does the speed conversion in software which is pretty cool. It only has 33 and 45 on the turntable.
Comment by Don — Saturday June 2, 2007 @ 3:32 pm
Looks pretty cool. I have replaced many of my LPs with CDs or downloaded MP3s, but some are missing. Maybe I’ll mail you some records to convert for me!
Comment by Daryl — Saturday June 2, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
Daryl: That would be cool. You might even have some stuff that I would like(or maybe not). A lot of the stuff I have was never made into CD or I’m just to cheap to buy it when I already have it on vinyl.
Comment by Don — Saturday June 2, 2007 @ 6:10 pm
I still have several LP’s in storage in Denton that would be fun to convert. Maybe I will pull them out the next time we are there and bring them to So. Cal. so you can convert them for me.
By the way, I have a a professional 35 MM slide scanner in case anyone has slides they need converted. I have done all of mine.
Comment by Richard — Sunday June 3, 2007 @ 5:46 pm
I never got into slides — it is too involved, too much of a “show” to display them.
Comment by Daryl — Monday June 4, 2007 @ 12:25 pm
I never did many slides either. I think I may have taken a few boxes but I have no idea where they are now.
Comment by Don — Monday June 4, 2007 @ 1:37 pm