I borrowed a friends MOTU 828 for a couple of days.
Recorded all sorts of stuff ready for use in tracks like weird sound made with my mouth, traffic noise, hitting stuff, scraping stuff and a bit of weird singing(cause i can’t sing properly so I do it extra weird). Oh yeah. Also recorded some stuff off vinyl but because the outputs of record players are lower than normal and I didn’t have a good mixer so the recordings are REALLY quite 
QUESTION: whats the best way to get a record player up to line level for recording into a audio interface? I could use one of the DJ mixers we have but they aren’t the quietest things either (as in they add noise)
My girlfriend also recorded a lot as well. She put down lots of vocals of her singing Jem & Misfit songs. Remember that cartoon? I do and used to watch it often. She has also been working on remaking the music of their songs.
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You can polish your mixers by replacing the OpAmps in them. That is, given the sliders are worth it
OpAmps are the little chips that amp the signal, often its cheap TL084 or something. You can hook in quite expensive replacements with golden pins ggg
But really, one can replace almost every electronic part in a mixer with a better one. Most mixers are made of standard asian parts, to say it mean.
If you really have a good stereo amp, use its phono input and connect its TAPE MON out the the mac. But its also gonna dd too much noise I could figure.
// Whats the single most important/expensive thing in music equipment? pre amps.
ah yes. good point. Hadn’t given that a thought although I had been told it could be done a few years back… I wonder though… is it worth it with this mixer?
its american DJ brand. pretty low end DJ gear; not the cheapest but noisy enough not to want to use it in a recording.
I had to really crank the input gain on the 828 which added its own noise. Makes me wonder how good the 828 pre’s are.
I really need to get a proper mixer anyway. something like one of the smaller 8 ins Behringers perhaps. Will they take phono level input though?
no he’s from switzerland not NYC
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