Ripping LPs to Hard Drive


I'm want to use Audacity to rip my records to hard drive, but I have a problem. The signal input level is too low. I have the "gain" slider in the Audacity program maxed out, and the gain level on the line input of my sound card is maxed as well. I was hoping to get signal levels to about -6db but the meters are topping out at about -24db. What can I do to give the input a bump?
danoroo

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Also - check the back of the Yammi for a switch that would change the level of the phono inputs. Some amps allow you to set the phono inputs to hi-level so you can use them as another auxiliary input if you are not using a turntable.
Or, you can do what I did. Give up on computers and buy a stand-alone CD recorder. This might not fix your level issues, though. It sure fixed my computer issues. I use a Marantz pro-sumer recorder with pretty respectable results.