What You’ll Need

• Plus! Analog Recorder in the Plus! SuperPack
  
• Windows Media Player 10
  

• Stereo RCA cable (2 RCA connectors and a mini-jack connector)
  
• Stereo RCA cable (2 RCA connectors on each end)
  
• Turntable
  
• Audio/video receiver, with built-in pre-amp and Phono inputs
  
• Sound card (with Line In jack)
  

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Step 1: Connecting a Turntable to Your Computer

1. Connect a ground wire from the ground connector on the receiver to the ground connector on the turntable, as shown in the following figure. This helps to reduce the humming or buzzing that might occur when you connect the turntable to the receiver.
   
2. Plug one end of one of the stereo RCA cables with the red-and-white, male RCA connectors into the red-and-white, female RCA jacks on the turntable, as shown in the following figure.
   
3. Plug the other end of this RCA cable into the red-and-white, female RCA jacks labeled Phono on the receiver, as shown in the following figure.
   
4. Plug one end of the other RCA cable into the red-and-white, female RCA jacks labeled Tape (Rec Out) (or similar) on the receiver, as shown in the following figure.
   
5. Depending on whether you are using a Y-cable or stereo RCA cable, do one of the following:
   • If you are using a Y-cable that already has a mini-jack stereo connector on the other end of the cable, go to the next step.
   • If you are using a stereo RCA cable that has red-and-white, male RCA connectors on both ends of the cable, plug the end not already connected to the female RCA jacks on the receiver into the female red-and-white RCA jacks of a mini-jack stereo adapter, as shown in the following figure.
     
   • Plug the mini-jack stereo adapter into the female Line In jack on the sound card in your computer, as shown in the following figure.
     
6. On the front of your receiver, select Phono as the input, and then select Phono as the output. Depending on your receiver, these input and output selectors are often buttons or knobs located on the front of the receiver.

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Step 2: Recording Music from a Vinyl Record in Plus! Analog Recorder

1. Start Plus! Analog Recorder, which is installed with Plus! Digital Media Edition or Plus! Super Pack.
2. On the Welcome to Plus! Analog Recorder page, click Next.
3. On the Adjust your recording level page, in the Sound device list, click the device you want to use. (The sound device is usually the name of the sound card that is installed on your computer.)
4. In the Input channel list, choose Line In. This is the jack that the mini-jack connector is plugged into on the sound card that is installed on your computer.
5. To begin detecting audio levels, play the record, and then click Start in Plus! Analog Recorder. Detecting audio levels helps to make sure that the recording volume is set correctly.
6. After an acceptable audio level has been detected, click Next.
7. If necessary, move the tone arm back to the beginning of the record.

1. On the Record your music page, click Record, and then play the record.
   For tracks that you don’t want to record, click Pause, move the tone arm to the desired track, and then click Record again.
2. Let the music play to the end of the record, and then click Stop in Plus! Analog Recorder.
3. On your turntable, stop playing the record.
4. Flip the record over.
5. Repeat steps 1-3 to record the music on the other side of the record.
6. After recording the second side of the record, in Plus! Analog Recorder, click Next.

1. On the Review and name your tracks page, click the first recorded track named Track 1.
2. To preview the recorded track, click the Preview button.
3. Do the following:
   • In the Name box, type the name of the track.
   • In the Artist box, type the name of the artist.
   • In the Album box, type the album name.
   • In the Genre box, type the appropriate genre (for example, Rock or Jazz).
4. For the other recorded tracks, type the name for each individual track.
   The information in the Artist, Album, and Genre boxes stays the same.
5. If necessary, do one or more of the following, and then click Next.
   • If there is a short recorded track that does not contain music, click Delete to delete the empty track (the short tracks are usually just recorded noise).
   • If the number of recorded tracks differs from the number of tracks listed on the record, two tracks may have been recorded as one long track (possibly because there was only a short pause between tracks on the record). To correct this, click the Preview button, play the music until the end of the first track, and then click the Split button to split the track into two tracks.

1. Select the Reduce pops and Reduce hiss check boxes.
   This turns on filters that can improve the sound of the recorded tracks by reducing unwanted noise. The filters are applied for all of the recorded tracks.
2. Click Preview to play the recorded track with the cleaning filters applied. If you like the results, click Next.

1. To change the save location, click Change, choose the appropriate folder location, and then click OK.
2. In the Save settings area, select or clear the Protect content (use DRM) check box. If you select this check box, you will not be able to share your tracks with friends.
3. On the Save music at this quality setting, drag the slider to the appropriate location.
   To save the music at a high-quality setting, drag the slider towards the right. However, note that as the quality setting increases, so does the file size of the saved Windows Media Audio (WMA) files.
4. To add the recorded music to a new or existing Windows Media Player playlist, click the Add tracks to Windows Media Player playlist drop-down box, and then click an existing playlist or click New to add the recorded tracks to a new playlist.
5. To save the tracks, click Next. The progress of saving the tracks as WMA files appears on the Saving your tracks page.
6. To close Plus! Analog Recorder, click Finish.

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Step 3: Playing the Recorded Music in Windows Media Player 10

1. Start Windows Media Player 10.
2. Click Library, and then do one of the following:
   • To play the recorded music by selecting the album title, expand All Music, click Album, and then double-click the album name for the record you recorded.
   • If you added the saved WMA files to a new playlist, expand My Playlists, and then double-click the playlist that includes the recorded tracks.

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