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Direct Drive Turntable
USB Turntable
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CONTENTS CONTENTS---------------------------------------------------2 DESCRIPTION-----------------------------------------------3,4 Audacity Software Instruction-------------------------5-20 2
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DESCRIPTION 1. Adapter: Use this adapter when playing 45 RPM records. 2. Power Switch: Use this switch to turn the turntable on and off. 3. Platter: Set the record here when playing. 4. Stroboscope Lamp: This lamp shines on the marking on the outside edge of the platter. (This is useful when making precise adjustment to the platter speed.) 5. Start/Stop Switch: User this switch to start and stop the rotation of the platter. 6. Counterweight: Use this to properly balance
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8. Tonearm Lever: Use this lever to lower and raise the tonearm. 9. Tonearm Lock: Use this to lock the tonearm in place when not in use. 10. Tonearm: Keep locked in place when not in use. 11. Pitch Control: Use this slider to vary the pitch of the recording by slightly speeding up or slowing down the rotation of the platter. 12. Headshell: This holds the stylus (“needle”) in place and provide protection by means of its removable stylus protection cap (not shown) 13. Speed Indicat
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INITIAL STARTING-UP MAINS CONNECTION Ensure that the mains voltage of your home corresponds to the operating voltage of the unit. Your unit is ready to be connected to a mains voltage of 110V/60Hz or 220V/50Hz. AMPLIFIER CONNECTION Connect audio plugs (5) to magnetic record player input on your amplifier: Red plug into R/H channel input. White plug into L/H channel input. Remove the protective cap from the stylus. - Place the record of your choice on the turntable. If it
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MAINTENANCE TO REPLACE THE STYLUS (FIG.A) - Put the rest (11) clip on the pick-up arm. - Remove the protective cap from the stylus. - Pull the stylus in the direction of arrow (A) and remove it. - Put in the new stylus following the reverse procedure. - Replace the protective cap on the stylus. TO DISASSEMBLE THE CARTRIDGE (FIG.B) - Put the rest clip into the pick-up arm. - Remove the stylus (see section above). - Release the pick-up head be push the cartridge in the direction of a
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Audacity Quick Guide Before Starting the Software Make sure that your USB turntable is plugged into the computer and both the computer and the turntable are plugged in and on. To Install Software (PC) 1. Plug in your turntable to an AC outlet and connect the USB port on the Turntable to the USB port of your computer. 2. Turn on the power switch to your turntable. 3. Windows system will detects a new device and that it is available to use. 4. Insert the CD that came with your USB tu
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Select the USB audio device under the “Recording” selection as shown. Select “Software Playthrough” to hear the audio while recording. Note: The USBTurntable may show up with a different name in Windows system.. This may depend on your computer model and operating system. 99% of the time it will contain “USB” in the Name. Figure 2: Select USB Audio Device from Preferences After complete the above setting, you are ready for recording. If you are still having difficulty findi
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Toolbars Selection tool - for selecting the range of audio you want to edit or listen to. Envelope tool - for changing the volume over time. Draw tool - for modifying individual samples. Zoom tool - for zooming in and out. Timeshift tool - for sliding tracks left or right. Multi tool - lets you access all of these tools at once depending on the location of the mouse and the keys you are holding down. Audio Control Buttons Skip to Start - moves the cursor to time
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Skip to End - moves the cursor to the end of the last track. Edit Toolbar All of the buttons on this toolbar perform actions - and with a couple of exceptions, they're all just shortcuts of existing menu items to save you time. Holding the mouse over a tool will show a "tooltip" in case you forget which one is which. Cut Copy Paste Trim away the audio outside the selection Silence the selected audio Undo Redo (repeat last command). Zoom In Zoom Out
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Mono - makes this track a mono track, meaning it is played out of Track Pop-Down Menu just one speaker, or played out of the left and right speakers equally. Left Channel - makes this track come out of only the left speaker. Right Channel - makes this track The Track Pop-Down Menu come out of only the right speaker. appears when you click in a track's title. This lets you access a few Make Stereo Track - if there is special commands that apply to another track below this one,
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Set Rate - sets the number of called Composition_data. Audacity samples per second of the track. project files are not meant to be 44100 Hz is used by audio CDs. shared with other programs - use Tracks can have different sample one of the Export commands (below) rates in Audacity; they are when you are finished editing a file. automatically resampled to the project sample rate (in the lower-left Save Project As... - same as Save corner of the window). Project (above), but lets you sav
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Export Selection As MP3... - same Print - Print out the main window as above, but only exports the view from audacity showing the current selection. tracks and waveforms. Export as Ogg Vorbis... - exports Exit (Quit) - closes all windows and all of the audio as an Ogg Vorbis exits Audacity, prompting you to file. Ogg Vorbis files are save any unsaved changes first. compressed and therefore take up much less disk space, but they lose Edit Menu some audio quality. Ogg Vorbis files tend
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Delete - Removes the audio data left and right edge of the selection that is currently selected without appear on a positive-slope zero copying it to the clipboard. crossing. This makes it easier to cut and paste audio without resulting in an audible clicking sound. Silence - Erases the audio data currently selected, replacing it with silence instead of removing it. Selection Save - Remembers the current selection (or cursor position), allowing you to restore it later. Split - Moves th
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Snap-To ... > Snap Off - Turns you turn on Snap-To mode in the Snap-To mode off letting you select Edit Menu, the selection will snap to arbitrary ranges of time the frames or other quantization you have selected in this menu. Preferences... - opens the Preferences dialog. History... - Brings up the history window. It shows all the actions you have performed during the current session, including importing. The right-hand column shows the View Menu amount of hard disk space your ope
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Float Mixer Toolbar - moves the options in the dialog to try some Mixer Toolbar out of the window other possible encodings. and into its own floating window as At the beginning of your imported above. track(s), you may notice a little bit of noise. This is probably the file's header, which Audacity was not able to parse. Just zoom in and select the noise with the Selection Project Menu Tool, and then choose Delete from the Edit Menu. Import Audio... - This command is used to import
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that track was at a non-default rate Align and move cursor... - same then you may need to use Set Rate as the functions above, except that from the Track Pop-Down menu to the cursor or selection is moved set the correct sample rate. along with the tracks. That allows you to shift the tracks without losing your relative place. New Stereo Track - same as above, but creates a stereo track. You can also create a stereo track Add Label at Selection - This by joining two tracks using the tr
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way to quickly apply the same effect to many different parts of a file. Silence - inserts silence Tone... - you can create a Sine wave, Square wave, or Sawtooth Amplify - changes the volume of wave. the selected audio. If you click the "Allow clipping" checkbox, it will let you amplify so much that the audio White Noise - inserts random audio ends up beyond the range of the samples, which sounds like pure waveform, and is clipped (distorted). static. The default value when you
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changing the pitch. This will change Noise Removal - This effect lets the length of the selection. you clean up noise from a recording. First, select a small piece of audio that is silent except for the noise, Compressor - compresses the select "Noise Removal", and click dynamic range of the selection so on the "Get Noise Profile" button. that the loud parts are softer while Then select all of the audio you keeping the volume of the soft parts want filtered select "Noise the same. Yo
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Repeat - repeats the selection a nearest peak frequency. This certain number of times. This window can also display other operation is quite fast and space- common functions that are efficient, so it is practical to use it to calculated using the Fast Fourier create nearly-infinite loops. Transform, including three versions of the Autocorrelation function. The Enhanced Autocorrelation function Reverse - This effect reverses the is very good at identifying the pitch selected audio tempor
