Never mind that, real ale is the best drink, after tea.
In other news, have any of you lot ever tried to use a cable like this to plug a tape player/record player into a computer? From what I can see, these are used more for speakers. A chap at work wants to record old vinyl, and packs cost from £10 to £30, it seems just for a cable and Audacity (which is free anyway).

If you haven't, or don't care, then can I have a cup of tea please?edit: Thanks for you help!
( Druid, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:39, archived)

I like a good quality orange juice with bits in more than tea,
and I like tea more than I like real ale.

Actually no, tea comes first.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:40, archived)

no
eff off
( jenpots, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:40, archived)

I'd suggest a better solution is to bung a proper audio soundcard into your computer
can get M-Audio soundcards for bugger all these days
( broadsword, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:40, archived)

My colleague has a laptop though. Normal mic inputs are shitty mono ones,
as you've probably guessed that's why I'm looking at USB ones.
I was hoping they'd be automatically recognised as an audio input by Windows without the need for software, and that someone here might know.
( Druid, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:43, archived)

You sure the mic input is mono?
Seems unusual, should just be able to get a twin phono to single stereo mini jack & use that. Will be shit quality through a generic laptop soundcard tho.
( broadsword, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:47, archived)

this
it's usually a stereo line in
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:48, archived)

What about an external sound card
www.amazon.co.uk/TRUST-SC-5500P-EXTERNAL-SURROUND-SOUND/dp/B0002Z2QQY

shitty but would probably do the job - he can always get some software to clean up the vinyl later
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:47, archived)

no
and no.
( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:40, archived)

The best drink is the pink stuff that dentist's have.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:41, archived)

It reminds me of red After shock

(thediscokingpin, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:42, archived)

it starts off white,
when you spit it down the sink it washes all the blood from your broken diseased gums, and this slowly accumulates as they pour it back into the bottle
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:42, archived)

The limitation is probably what rate the computer can capture and A/D convert.

(thediscokingpin, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:41, archived)

does the cable not have some kind of magic box in the middle of it?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:41, archived)

It may do. Some of the ones I've seen have.
I'm hoping so.
( Druid, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:43, archived)

it also looks like it may plug into a mobile phone
what with the 3 connections
(likeajackhammer, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:42, archived)

I use a mini jack splitter going into Phono leads at work when putting old archive stuff onto my PC. Just 1:1 record it at x1 speed

The USB thingy might need drivers that aren't about.
( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:43, archived)

SHUT UP!

(likeajackhammer, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:44, archived)

My birthday is better than yours

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:45, archived)

That's what I thought, but it's an old laptop he's using with no phono inputs
and a mono mic input. It's just getting the stereo signal into the thing that's the problem.
( Druid, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:45, archived)

So is mine at work.
mini jack goes into the 'Audio In' jack in the PC.
Phono leads go into the record/cassette player. sorted.

If he's only got a mono mic jack in then tell him his laptop is uber shit and stop trying to be clever.
( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:47, archived)

*stereo mini jack to twin phono fives*

( broadsword, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:49, archived)

booya!

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:49, archived)

word

( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:51, archived)

I'm pretty indifferent to hot drinks.
I do hope you don't mind.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:45, archived)

Bloody real Ale drinkers.

(Fluffster, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:49, archived)

Get a usb turntable.
They are ace.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:50, archived)

I'd like to just borrow one of these
I'd have no use for it once I'd recorded my vinyl
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:53, archived)

Assuming you already have a record deck
It's cheaper to stick an Audiophile 2496 into your pc & record from your current record deck. Tidy the files up in the audio editor of your choice, job done, your computer has a decent soundcard in & almost certainly better quality rips than from a USB turntable.
( broadsword, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 12:58, archived)

Yeah true
I've been recording straight from the rec output of my mixers into a Soundblaster Audigy 2 Gold then using Audio Cleaning Lab to normalise the tracks. By the time the mixes are on CD they sound pretty decent, certainly good enough for what I want them for
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 8 Jul 2009, 13:06, archived)