I'm also having problems with sound - I've connected the RCA out to my stereo which is a 3.5 jack 'Aux in' but the sound is all distorted. Its as if the turntable is too loud for the hi fi
To stop it jumping you need to increase the weight located on the end of the arm slightly then test play a record, if it jumps you increase the weight again slightly and test again. Repeat till it stops. If it rumbles decrease the weight.
As for the sound. You need to find out if the deck uses a magnetic cartridge or some other type. If it uses a magnetic cartridge it will have to be connected to an amp with a Magnetic Cartridge Pre-amp built in. Or you will need to purchase one (pre-amp that is) if it has not got one. This can be then be plugged into a standard jack socket.
If it does not use a magnetic cartridge, don't put it one marked for "phono". Instead put it in a tape, aux or cd socket.
SOURCE: Arm does not track properly but skips across records
Just guessing, but it sounds like you haven't counterbalanced your tone arm. When a tone arm skips, it's usually because there's too much counter weight on the rear of the tone arm. You want between 3-5 grams, but first you have to calibrate your tone arm (balance it so you know where zero is). If you don't know how to do this, refer to the Ion directions called "Tonearm Setup" in the instructions.
SOURCE: ion ittusb turntable interference
Please describe the conditions under which the noise happens. Is it always the same place? Whic is it - static or some other kind of interference? Read the following. If you're using high speaker volume to monitor while recording you could experiment with identifying it as the casue by cranking it up to see if you can make it worse.
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As with any turntable the following advice for this one will apply:
The tonearm setup is critical for proper tracking. Do it again with extreme care if mistracking is your problem.
I found one model online and a review with some sample of music. Quite interesting...
http://www.everythingusb.com/ion_ttusb10_usb_turntable_13231.html
The author complained about some things that clearly mark him as a stranger to finer turntables. Complaining about having to assemble and position the 'rubber band', aka the drivebelt, and the tonearm counterweight shows that he underestimates the precision required for a mechanism to rotate at a constant precise speed while properly tracking the microscopic undulations of the groove without skipping into the air or gouging it to death.
Some basics when recording from a turntable...
1) Place the turntable as far from speakers as possible on a solid surface that you will not touch during the recording
2) Keep the volume low enough that airborne sounds don't cause mistracking of the stylus *
3) Avoid anything that will cause vibration or movement of the turntable. (Tip toe)
* If you have a subwoofer, turn it off.
Some advice after reading the article: don't try to save recording time by playing the discs at 45rpm. The best tracking of the disc and recording of the minute details in the grooves will be at the nativespeed of the recording. Digital manipulation later only gloms up the accuracy you probably want.
In general, the fewer the conversions steps in the analog domain, the better; and the fewer the bit rate conversions in the digital domain, the better.
SOURCE: ION TTUSB05XL - Poor sound quality
the turntable has a built-in phono preamp so you don't want to run it through phono inputs in your receiver but just regular auxiliary inputs instead
SOURCE: sound quality
Did you make the audio changes in the Windows Control panel documented in the Ez Vinyl 4.1 Setup Instructions? You must set audio format and levels to specified levels for Windows 7.
SOURCE: Sound is too loud and
well turn the mixer down. sound has NOTHING to do with the turntable . unless your needle is broke or dirty.
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