Ripping vinyl. Best option?
Just trying to figure out what would yield the best results in terms of sound quality: recording the record from the turntable directly to my macbook, recording through the record out on my DJM 900, or neither.
the more wiring it goes through the more the sound changes. I would just have it go to your soundcard or your DJm900 with NO eq or effects. run it into audacity, I find audacity has a fairly transparent sound and a great range of options for rendering the file
although you make get some artifacts from ripping depending on quality of the vinyl
Do you have an audio interface? It’s best to reduce the amount of signal conversion between the turntable and your computer.
best to reduce the conversion… your DJM should suffice. although i would use my focusrite instead. I run my xone 62 through my scarlett, seeing as the xone is analog it works fine.
Don’t have an interface. So just record it through my mixer like I would a mix I’m recording?
You could do that, but be warned the result might not sound as good as your other files/records.
You might have to go through a mixer, the TT needs a ground connection which your mac ain’t gonna have. Try to monitor your level before recording, also as stated - artifacts, pops, some static, and possibly some wow and flutter too could be present on the finished file.
You can always ground the turntable to the mixer and have the rca’s going to the laptop.
That’s a rather splendid idea! Tiredness has me daft..
Turntable>Audio6>Audition …Boom 
Recorded a single track from a record through my DJM 900 to my macbook and it sounded pretty terrible lol. Doesn’t seem worth it if I lose so much sound quality.
Your mixer has a studio grade interface in it so - yes. Just connect TT to phono input on the mixer and record in DAW, Traktor or Audacity (not sure if you can use audacity to be honest - something regarding recording individual USB channels/ASIO stuff)
I recorded it in Audacity. Sounded like 96kbs quality.
My setup for recording vinyl is:
TT > Traktor Z2 > macbook (vinyl studio)
I recommend http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
It has some really nice features to make it easy. Finds tracklistings/artwork from discogs and amazon. Also has pop and crackle reducers.
I usually normalize my files afterward using rogue amoeba’s fission because it theoretically doesn’t re-encode when normalizing.
Also make sure to use good needles and wipe down with grooveglide or something similar.
This is my process. Not saying it’s perfect.
I have recorded through my Denon X600 (with Traktor’s recorder function) and it sound’s the same as on the outputs of the mixer.
Have you made sure your inputs are correctly set up?
Yessir. I have a y-cable coming out of my Record Out on the mixer going into my headphone jack on my macbook pro.
you need to use the DJM’s interface via usb to record. sooo… either use Traktor to record or Ableton (you can set ableton to use djm900 interface, right?)
Definitely use a interface … Way back when I had a brilliant idea to rip all my vinyl years ago my setup went Tt->djm600->delta1010-> cool edit pro. That should date the time frame I’m talking about fairly well… I could get great sounding rips but and a big but back then 192k was considered standard quality and me being cheap on storage did that instead of 320/wav so now I have roughly 3000 tracks that are completely useless for anything then reminding me of when I had a stellar vinyl collection and how silly it was to sell it off when I moved to another country
I used a Xitel INport. You can get them on Amazon.com. It connects from my stereo receiver to my computer via USB for digital sound. There’s one that comes with recording software and an editing app. You record the entire side of a record, then use the editing app to split up the recording into individual tracks. It splits the tracks up automatically if you choose, but you still have to enter artists, titles, etc., which it adds to the MP3 tags. I used this method to rip about 1000 albums. It took a long time, but the quality is excellent.