Usually 60HZ hum is introduced by poor earthing, I’d check that first if you haven’t already.
> On 23 Sep. 2016, at 8:01 am, Gary Petraccaro <garypet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The talk about preamps reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. I > have a turntable and a preamp which I need to use to get vinyl into a PC and > I'm getting 60-cycle hum. The preamp was an old Radioshack model. I can use > a filter to kill the hum, but 1. is that a reasonable thing to do in the > first place, and, 2. what would people suggest as a reasonable cost method to > not have the hum at all? > Btw, be looking forward to hearing about the software. > Thanks. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 12:34 PM > Subject: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces > > > Yep, will be doing that this weekend, have some lost 45’s bought from Vinyl > Australia to sample and I’ve got the old Aiwa Turntable prepared and ready, > have one of the computers here connected to the line-out of the Rotal Amp > which has a truly superb Fono stage built-in. > I have both the Mac and Windows versions of Vinyl Studio Pro so it will be > interesting to see which I get better access to, the Mac or the Windows > version, at this early stage they both seem rather equal. > > ********** > Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the > halfwits in this world behind. > > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.