if your just getting a turntable for sampling you really dont even need a mixer, any cheap one will do though.
the only reason you need a mixer is for the phono preamp on it, this boosts the level of the signal coming from the turntable so it is audible and full sounding when sampling into your mpc. it does this by adding an eq curve to your signal to get the full range of frequencies recording as intended.
this is called the RIAA curve.
basically what happens is when they mold the record itself, the grooves arent big enough to produce adequate bass, and the higher frequencies are over exaggerated, the RIAA curve, is an eq curve that is exactly the opposite of how the records are cut, so upon playback the original eq of the record, and the RIAA curve combine to create a flat frequency response so you dont hear your records with the original thin bass that the record is cut at.
you can get a phono preamp in one of those old 70s/80s hi-fi stereo systems at a pawn shop for like 5 bucks and bypass the whole mixer.
you can read about it here if you want
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalizationPastor-of-Muppets wrote:tyrone_biggums wrote:so u have them in mp3 form to burn to cd...
don't convert to mp3 before burning to cd - it's a lossy format, and just needs to be converted back from mp3 for CD audio
record to a lossless format for burning to CD. CD audio is 16bit stereo 44.1kHz, so recording to a 16bit 44.1kHz WAV file makes more sense
^^^ this is very good advice.
and if i were you i would look into getting a cheap audio interface that has at least two channels in case you wanted to multitrack your music out in the future, but then again you would have to pay for a daw that is capable of multi-tracking. audacity is not.
but i hear reaper is cheap.
hope this helps
