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where do I get a vinyl drive for my computer though?
HAHA JK.
You will have best luck using very high quality analog devices, you will want to use the best capturing method possible, and for many, this is provided by using this combo...
ok turntable -> excellent needle cartridge -> solid phono preamp or to quality phono in -> high quality amplifier/digital processor with digital output -> digital input on computers sound interface -> your software of choice for capturing digital audio.
if you have no digital processor or really good amp, go from phono preamp -> mini jack input like hijacker suggested. be aware that this will have the potential of creating a messy sound if your computer has interference issues like many do with drive access. in this case, you will want to close everything possible, and if also possible, disable virtual memory and record as much as possible to RAM. I just do one song at a time with this method.
if you have a good soundcard input already, you wont have this issue, and its not as big of an issue with soundcards that are of higher quality or are at least not built in. Soundstorm, however, is a quite good audio processing unit, and if you have no interference problems, should suffice quite nicely.
if you are overclocking and overvolting your computer, undervolt and underclock it to solve these issues. make sure its still stable though.
as for absolute requirements...
turntable, proper cabling, computer input. i suppose software wise NeroMix should suffice, but there are plent of standard capture softwares for nil. like, windows recorder for instance. windows recorder and an input are pretty standard on all boxes and all MS OSes. i personally dont like neromix. just me though. you can use EAC also for editing silence on the end of tracks and for breaking them up. i think software wise, you can get everything you need for free if you look through the archive here.
hardware wise is where you might need a few things. it really helps to have a phono preamp, and really really helps if you have digital inputs and an external amp/processor with digital outputs for really keeping the sound clean. you might try using your dvd player as the digital outputter and your analog inputs from the phono to the dvd player. my dvd player is pretty high quality for this. i dont use windows recorder for that though.
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