...or speaking of Zooms...
Tonight I thought about ripping my old vinyl records and idly window-shopped for an USB turntable when I suddenly remembered my old turntable in the attic. So I blew the dust off it, grabbed cables and all and plugged it into the Mic/Line-In of my Zoom H1, pressed the record butten et voilà, it works! I was somewhat surprised and thought I had inadvertedly engaged the preamp in the turntable (it's an old Panasonic SL-N5 w/ built-in preamp and "line out" signal levels) but no, preamp off.
Before I could do some more in-depth research, the belt of the turntable broke (hey, it's 25+ years old) and left me in silence. (at least that part is cheaper than a whole new apparatus)
But the prospect of letting the Zoom do the dirty work (with its presumably better A/D converter than the average laptop) makes me looking forward to the next rainy weekend...
Now I wonder if I'm just lucky or if the Zoom is indeed capable of recording vinyl without a preamp in between... :?:
Tonight I thought about ripping my old vinyl records and idly window-shopped for an USB turntable when I suddenly remembered my old turntable in the attic. So I blew the dust off it, grabbed cables and all and plugged it into the Mic/Line-In of my Zoom H1, pressed the record butten et voilà, it works! I was somewhat surprised and thought I had inadvertedly engaged the preamp in the turntable (it's an old Panasonic SL-N5 w/ built-in preamp and "line out" signal levels) but no, preamp off.
Before I could do some more in-depth research, the belt of the turntable broke (hey, it's 25+ years old) and left me in silence. (at least that part is cheaper than a whole new apparatus)
But the prospect of letting the Zoom do the dirty work (with its presumably better A/D converter than the average laptop) makes me looking forward to the next rainy weekend...
Now I wonder if I'm just lucky or if the Zoom is indeed capable of recording vinyl without a preamp in between... :?: