You basically have 2 options...

Buy a mixer with multiple outputs and a sound card with high end RCA input and output jacks

or...

Buy a soundcard that's designed to rip straight from vinyl like this one...

This one is average priced at about 90 dollars and has all the features you'd need for the above scenario too.

The Mixvibes U-MIX44



^Has USB for integrated vinyl to digital transfer...

There are other cheaper cards but apparently this one does a good job maintaining that warmth often lost in a lot of cheaper soundcards. There's plenty of cheap audio cards that will work for this but they are garbage if they are under 40 bucks.



Here is a high end preamp (but yeah, you already have a preamp, you'd have to sell it if you bought this) designed for the job that has an actual tube in it for the best quality results, and it too would work with the top scenario.


Bellari - VP 530 USB Tube Phono Preamp



At 400 bucks it's a hell of an investment, you are paying for the tube and the quality when you go down that road, but it'll last forever and you won't have to upgrade ever.


another route (the cheapest) would be to split the RCA output with a "Y" cable spltter, but you loose bandwidth and you still need a soundcard with RCA jacks input so it's not a good plan IMO.


What I do is I have a 3 channel input mixer and 3 channel output mixer. Left is my left deck, middle is my right deck and my computer's output is my input for the 3rd channel. Then I have an output labeled "Booth Out" that goes into my soundcard so I just turn up that gain when recording. Playback is as simple as turning up the gain on channel 3 on the mixer. Easy as pie once it is setup but that requires the right mixer and a nice professional soundcard with enough ins and outs. I use Audiophile soundcards. I would recommend this if you got a little money to spend it's so simple to record on the fly and really, if you think about it, you'll want 2 decks at some point anyway.

I use Sony Soundforge for recording everything but that was part of the Sony Acid package I paid for. From what I heard the free Audacity software is great for recording audio.

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Phew, some thinking to do I suppose!
Thanks for the advice, gonna do some more research and report back with questions of course.

From what I gather you are a big spender from week to week on records like myself. That is a good thing and It takes one to know one.

So if you gave up buying wax for 2 weeks you could probably afford that 400 dollar Bellari - VP 530 USB Tube Phono Preamp and have super high quality recordings of records and it would be easy to implement. It's a big initial investment but not really in the big scheme of things for something you'll enjoy for years.

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You're definitely right on the quality, I tend to buy for longterm use and compatibility...looking into that Bellari now, appreciate the tip.

Really thinking about your Bellari suggestion...haven't been able to find that many reviews online but I was looking at all the stores that carried them recently.

Would I be able to use that single Bellari if I added another table to my set-up or would I still need another preamp? For the time being it seems like it would be a good, expandable option. For now I would be able to just rip certain pieces to my computer but use that same device later on to record mixes made from two tables OUT to a computer as well?
I like the built in headphone amplifier option as well, I've got some nice phones but that would another expandable technology for the future.