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how do i connect my aunt turn table to my mac book pro
aunt turn table-OTHER
hi
it does have the red & white connectors, it is a new one so it also has the usb port, however I've tried to connect the usb but the sound only comes out of the turntable, all i want to do is download a vinyl album to my mac, thought it would be easy or am i just thick
sorry it was meant to say auna, the usb lead is connected to the plug i have removed this & plugged it into my mac but the sound still only comes from the turn table. all i want to do is download a album to the mac & then hopefully sync it to my phone. any advice would be really appreciated
kind regards
tony
"Aunt". Is that a brand or do you mean it is the one belonging to your mother's sister?
I don't know about newer turntables but older ones require an adapter to convert RCA jacks to a single pin stereo connector to fit into the audio-in socket on the computer. It will also likely require a pre-amplifier to boost the signal. I would do a web search because I recall reading once a product produced for specifically both purposes. Otherwise you will have to buy the items separately.
You will also require software for recording if that is your intention. Audacity is free.
Depends on the turn table. What type of connector(s) does the turn table have? Red and white "RCA" connectors? Some more recent turn tables have a USB connector, that can be connected directly to computer's USB port.
Without having some detail re the turntable we can only guess at what is needed. If it is a standard turntable it will need RIAA inputs for the signal, a preamplifier. in other words, a turntable preamplifier
If you connect it using USB, on the Mac, in System Preference Sound pane Input tab, see if the turn table is listed as a device. If it is, select it there. If this does not work, please post back. You can use the RCA output, converted into mini-stereo jack. A modern turn table that has USB probably also has a switch to change the RCA output to "line level."
Then, you need to run an app that can capture the audio being played. I use GarageBand to do this, which is pre-installed on recent Macs. I'm not going to write a GarageBand tutorial here, but you can set it up to record the audio coming from the Mac's selected sound input. You can use GarageBand to "massage" the audio, so that it sounds as good as possible, and edit the recording into separate song tracks. And you can use GarageBand to export the final product into iTunes as AAC files.
Recording analog audio and digitizing it is not "easy" (like ripping a music CD in iTunes). I did it for my old collection of records and cassette tapes, and achieved great results, but it took a lot of time and effort (and I had fun doing it).
how do i connect a turntable to my mac book pro
