Analogue to digital setup for sampling records

[kasperbergholt]

Clever people,


I have a lot of old records that I'd like to extract samles from for various projects, primarily beats and baselines.

I'm on a somewhat limited budget but have some hifi tube-based equipment I plan on using a Leben amplifier & RIAA amplifying the signal from a Goldring 2400 pickup. The phono-level signal is amplified by a set of ECC81 tubes.

I'd like to keep the signal chain analogue for as much as possible. I'm looking at a Motu M2 soundcard (that's my budget range), but other recommendations would be welcome.

The signal could come directly from the RIAA - or it could come from a tape-out on the amplifier (which would provide, I think, a signal of line-level volume).

Is somebody here doing something similar? Is it a good / bad idea? Any other things to take into consideration?


Thanks in advance,

Kasper