Connecting record deck to x-fi I/O drive

imar · 12 Feb 2008 at 11:25

I'm presuming I can just plug the 'audio L/R cable' from my Gemini record deck directly into the corresponding 'L/R AUX IN 2' on the X-Fi I/O Drive.
Am then running Audio Creation mode and selecting Aux 2 from the drop down menu. I tried this last night and there is no sound coming through to the PC.
Do I need to plug the record deck into an amp, then the amp to the I/O or is there something blatantly obvious I haven't done like any settings I need to look at?

Munkeh · 12 Feb 2008 at 11:33

You'll need to run it via a phono amp. You could run it into a mixer which would do the job and then output into your pc. That make sense?

imar · 12 Feb 2008 at 15:24

Cheers Munkeh will give it another go tonight.

imar · 13 Feb 2008 at 08:45

Everything is working great.
Plugged my deck into the 'phono' on the amp and then the 'Pre Out' on the amp to the X-Fi I/O 'AUX IN'.
Launched Audio Creation Mode and now have full control over the audio. I'm able to adjust settings on my amp and also those that Audio Creation Mode offers.
Ran a few test recordings to check it was all working, now I just need to fine tune to ensure I get good quality recordings while keeping the file size down.
Only problem I face is the recordings are in WAV format. Why they didn't include MP3 is beyond me but you can purchase the addon for this feature from creative for an additional $9.99. :mad:

Not sure which is the easiest option, do I get the addon or use some different software to convert the files later. Possibly iTunes?

bledd · 13 Feb 2008 at 14:19

just save them as wav, then use EAC (or commandline lame.exe) to convert to mp3

don't use itunes