Phono section digitized?

I want to digitize my lp's and save them to a hard drive.

Does anyone know if you hook up a turntable to the 990 phono inputs, will there be a digitized signal of the LP avalable at the digital outputs?

I don't believe so but there are inexpensive devices that can take the analog signal and convert it to digital to save on your hard drive as a file which can then be cleaned up and converted to MP3 format One device which I have used is a Behringer UFO202. It came with a freeware program Audacity which is pretty flexible with cleaning the file and allowing you to save it digitally.

No, there will not. You'll want to look at some of the ideas suggested by XenonMan.

Thanks Gonk & Xenonman, saved me having to test this out.

You might want to take a look at the NAD PP3i. It's a phono preamp and also a digitizer and USB out.

I used the Behringer mostly because it was cheap ($35) and easy to use. I connected it to the tape output of my 990 and then to my PC. The 990 has a phono preamp built in and doesn't need another one to play vinyl. Once you get the hang of the process you can record your albums realtime several in a row and then take your time cleaning them up if you want to remove all the extraneous noises. You can take them as far as you want for metadata and then convert to MP3 for playback. The Audacity program is not the most intuitive but it gets the job done and it is FREE!! Total investment is $35 and you are up and running. I got mine at Amazon.

I use a Pinnacle Dazzle (RCA jacks in, USB out) found in computer supplies stores. VLC media player then used to "hear" the USB input and stream it to file (.wav). It's common to find recorder software that can record from the mic jack, but rare to find one that can record from a USB. My PC's mic jack is noisy, so for me USB is better. With this arrangement, I can use my good turntable. Open two instances of VLC, one to listen in real time, the other to stream to file. Exact Audio Copy can then be used on the wav file to clean-up the start and end points, convert to MP3 / Flac, and/or burn to disc.

I use a GemSound PL-USB ($100 from Guitar Center) with free Audacity software to digitally record LPs. The GemSound has a so-so phono preamp so it can be used alone between your computer and turntable. It also has line inputs so it can be used as XenonMan does with the Behringer. It also has a headphone amp so I can monitor any changes I make with Audacity. Audacity is a pretty complex program and there is a learning curve to consistently convert LPs to digital. I use Audacity to create AIFF files (16/44.1) that are easily managed in iTunes. The process is fairly time consuming but rewarding to have digital versions of music that will probably never be available commercially on CD or via download.

One Audacity tip: Don't add the song's metadata using Audacity. If you do some songs will not play on mobile devices such as iPods and may cause the iPod to lock up. Input the song's metadata after importing them to iTunes to avoid this glitch. As you can guess I learned this the hard way!