dull recorded audio from turntable

[swrzzzz]

Hi I wonder if anyone has any ideas?

I have an oldish but trusty Audigy platinum card and I have bought a turntable to digitise some old vinyl. The turntable is connected to Aux IN 2.

I have a problem in that when I listen to LPs though the sound card they sound great (crackly but very bright). Whenever I record them I seem to lose the brightness - they go dull and lose high frequencies. I have tried recording in Wavelab (24 bit/44K) and Audacity. Wavelab seems subjectively worse than audacity. As far as I know no effects are turned on and the record volume is at peak about -8db.

Thanks for your help

Steve

 

[-RockMan-]

Have you looked into total recorder standard or professional 8.0 ?
I think it might help you or atleast in someways to get done what you need it to.

Capture Streaming Audio. Recording, converting, editing of sound.

 

[Matt08642]

You might want to try recording them at 24/96

 

[Joe C]

Most turntables need a pre-amp before you connect to the soundcard. does your turntable have a pre-amp on it? I ask this because most of the older turntables do not have pre-amps