Ripping vynil to juno g practical?

[tablist56]

hi there,

i sold my turntables to by my juno g and i have started to get the mixing bug again...i cant really afford a new set of tables so i have decided to go for a dual cd/mixer type setup.

id like to get peoples opinions on the best way to rip/encode 300 pieces of vynil...should i just use my laptops line in with soundforge or would it make more sense to just plug my single turntable into my juno g? i have a 1 gig card which should give me about 1hr audio at a time.

another very important question i have is that if i do use my juno g to rip my vynil, what inbuilt effects in the juno should i use to master the rip before burning it to cd?

it would be awesome to be able to rip & master everything straight from the juno g. im pretty sure i can record stuff from my turntable but i have no idea if i need to do compression, normalising etc to fatten up the rip before burning.

thanks for your time today!!!!

[Xsessive Sound]

Best way to rip vinyl to wav/aiff/mp3 is to connect your turntable to a mixer (turntables have to be plugged into a Phono input or a DJ Mixer which has a phono input, if not you will get low/bad sound quality) then connect your output of your mixer to the input of the soundcard. I then use Peak (im a Mac user) and set up the recording (24bit is better quality than 16bit, the Fantom states you must use 16bit Aiff/Wav. But im quite sure i have used 24bit Aiff's). Once recorded you can truncate the sample and use audio import to send that to your Juno G.
When ripping vinyl unless it is an old record with badly recorded mixing and mastering i dont bother compressing/mastering the track. Especially if it is a recent track, think about the mixing and mastering equipment/engineers used to complete the track.
Just make sure you get enough gain and dont overgain the mixer or your digital levels in Peak/Soundforge.
Hope that was of some usedude.