EAC.exe
and LAME are free audio programs
used mostly to rip very high quality MP3’s from music CD’s similar to Roxio.
Instead I use it to convert my vinyl LP collection to MP3’s. You can download
EAC.exe
from the programmer’s website and it has info about the program.
But another site,
Chris Myden’s
, has .cfg files that will load all of the options correctly for
EAC, and a step by step tutorial on installing EAC. There is also
a link to download the free MP3 encoder,
LAME
, which EAC utilizes. It may look complicated, but it wasn't,.
The only other thing that you’ll
need besides the computer and the Stereo/Turntable is a “Stereo mini-jack
to RCA jacks” cable which you can get for about $8-$12 at Radio Shack.
Once EAC is installed and the cable is hooked up between
the output of the Stereo/Turntable and the input to the Computer, start
up EAC and cue up the LP on the turntable. If it’s hooked up correctly
sound should play thru the Computer speakers.
Go to Tools
then select Record WAV...
Make sure the Channel "VU" meter
is showing some yellow, not as shown. If it's not, adjust the input volume
up in the computer's Volume Control area. Hit the
Select target filename button
Enter the Artist & name
of the cut
Start the turntable and cue
the cut & hit Start record
End recording the WAV file
Now that the WAV file has
been created you want to process it to remove any dead air before and after
the song, and then Normalize it to standardize the volume level.
Go to
Tools then select Process WAV and
open the WAV file that you just saved.
The silent spaces at the front
and back, if any, can be hi-lighted and deleted. To Normalize
the file go to Process File and select
Normalize.Save the changes to the file
and close the Sound Processing window.
Now to compress the WAV file into an MP3 format, go back to
Tools and select Compress WAVs.
Find &
select the WAV file that was just recorded and normalized. The
LAME program kicks in and completes the process. Click on
OK when finished.
That completes the process. The
LP cut should now be in a great quality, multi kpbs, MP3 file.