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Jesse_mtl
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turntables to computer

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good morning ! i go to audio school, so every morning i wake up, with ideas for improvement on my home setup. All equipment specs put aside, whats the ideal setup for connecting your turntables / mixer to your computer / ableton live kind of thing ? right now i have fuckin nice hp zd 8000 3.2 ghz bla bla 1 gb ram, but theres a shitty 16 bit sound card with 1 L + R output. anyway i have my mixers line out to my microphone jack on the laptop, which goes to some of the worst speakers ive ever heard....

besides buying new speakers, how could i improve the current setup ?
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Post by pheek »

Buy a soundcard, for sure!
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Post by Renze »

I think an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 has exactly what you need, and more. It's also a decent card if you want to make music on your computer.

Edit: I see you are using a laptop..There's a USB and a FireWire version of the Audiophile. Just look on the site. I've heard mixed stories about the quality of these products, but I guess for recording mixes it's more than ok.
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Post by Jesse_mtl »

thanx for replies. someone also mentioned to me running my line out to an external amp, then to passive speakers... . problem being, only one of my passive speakers works.... would that be better than using 2 shitty computer speakler with sub that have combined 30W output lol cuz thats wut im using right now .
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