Numark TT USB Turntable (Numark TT USB)

Member Name: singlerider

Product:	Numark TT USB
Date:	08/07/09 (99 review reads)
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Advantages: Plug and play, good software bundle, audio out

Disadvantages: Really annoying if it skips during recording

My girlfriend bought me this for Christmas two years ago, and though it hasn't seen as much use as I'd hoped, what use it's had has been good.

Setting up was fairly easy, with it being plug and play - all you do is plug it into the usb port and it automatically installs (on Vista at least) along with the Audacity software to convert into mp3 or wav. That said, if I remember rightly I may have had to download a driver from the Numark website, but it was no great shakes.

In use the only criticism I had was that the cartridge was either a little light, or awkward to set up - I'm not discounting the possibility that it may have been down to user error, but I tried to get the balance right for ages and still found that it would skip during recordings.

This is undoubtedly the biggest downfall of this product - because when you've got 80% of the way through a track and then it skips, it means you then have to record it all over again - and being analogue there's no handy 4x or 8x record speed.

Apart from that one gripe however, it's an excellent little product - a welcome surprise was that it has Gracenote bundled in with it, so when you've recorded a track or an album it comes up with a thing that says "I think you've just recorded . . . (insert artist and track name here)" which I thought was pretty clever considering it's not digital. Another bonus is that it comes with audio leads, so you could actually use this a a regular deck plugged into your stereo.

Overall, very happy.

Summary: Decent price, decent product

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