Reply to Vinyl Ripping Help! / Mac / Traktor / Audacity

Hi Guys/Gals,

This topic has probably been covered before, and i have ripped vinyl myself before, but i didn't achieve the results i was hoping for at the time and kinda gave up on it.

Now i am back on it again and have purchased some new toys. A macbook pro, A Stanton T.92 and a set of technics M5Gs.

I did try and make the jump with a Pioneer DDJ-SX, but i could not get along with it , so i sold it and purchased Traktor A10.

As you can see, i have made a few bad decisions and probably should have read a little more before making outlandish purchases. But Hey...

So my plan is to use my M5g's and spin the time-coded vinyl with purchased Wav/Mp3's and my vinyl rips.

So far i have not been very happy with the results i got from the Stanton USB turntable, and so i am hoping to use the M5g's and maybe the Traktor A10 sound card for best results.


I have been trying to do this in Audacity, and even though i have set the A10 as my main Input / output on my macbook preferences, I cannot use it as the input/output in Audacity.

I have scoured the net trying to find a way to use the A10 to do this, but i keep coming up empty handed. I know a little about this subject, but i am not overly technical, so if anybody can give me a step-by-step dummies guide, that would be great.

I don't mean to sound like a lemon, but I am ultimately trying to get a reproduction of my vinyl that sounds as good as it does when i play it normally.

The Stanton USB Turntable did not produce these results as closely as i would have liked, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance


Mattalik.