mbeat USB-TR01 User manual

mbeat® USB Turntable Recorder with Dual Speakers
Model: USB-TR01
Read instructions carefully before use and store in a safe place for future reference. Product color and specification
are subject to change without prior notice. The manufacturer or distributor reserves the right to amend the
instruction manual at anytime to reflect the latest product design changes or limitations

Product introduction
1. Plastic dust cover
2. Turntable unit
3. Adapter- Use this adapter when playing 45rpm records.
4. Tone arm lift lever
5. Tone arm
6. Auto stop control
7. Adjustable Speed selection-Three speed for choice: 33.3, 45, 78 rpm.
8. Ceramic cartridge with diamond style needle
9. Full range dual speakers
10. Power & volume knob with LED backlit
11. USB interface (USB 1.1&2.0 compatible)
12. RCA output- Connect this with the plugs to mixer or amplifier,
Red color indicates for R channel, white color indicates for L for channel.
13. AC power plug cord- Connect to a grounded AC outlet of the proper voltage.

Initial start up
Power on
Ensure that the mains voltage of your home corresponds to the operating voltage of the unit. Your
unit is ready to be connected to a mains voltage of 240V/50Hz.
Amplifier connection
This model comes with speakers and it can play back the record directly. If you want to connect the
device to your own powered speaker set or your mixer or amplifier, there is a set of Aux output (RCA
sockets R/L) at rear of the product which allows user to connect the device to external audio
speakers or some mixers.
zRed plug into R/H channel input.
zWhite plug into L/H channel input.
Play the record
1. Place the vinyl record of your choice on the turntable.
2. If it is a 45rpm recorder, DO NOT forget to place the 45rpm adaptor on the record spindle.
3. Choose the desired playing speed using the Speed select switch among 33.3, 45 or 78rpm.
4. Turn on the Rotary Power & Volume Switch.
5. Release the tone arm lock.
6. Push in the arm with your hand lightly.
7. Gently place the tone arm vertically over the first track of the record the turntable will start
turning automatically.
8. Put down the cartridge slowly to the record then the turntable will start to play.
9. When a record comes to the end, the turntable will stop automatically if the Auto-stop
switch is in the ON position. If the switch is in the off position then it will be suitable for Long
Play records.
After use care
1. Take out the record and store it properly
2. Lift up the tone arm and put it on the rest.
3. Replace the protective cap on the stylus and close the tone arm lock.
4. Turn off power and unplug the power cord from mains.
5. Close the plastic dust cover

USB turntable function
Install the “Audacity” audio edit software
Put the CD disk into your computer and run “Aduacity.exe” file to install the software on your
computer. After installation you can launch the software on your desktop, looking for this icon
on your desktop or starter menu on your Windows OS.
When first time to launch the software, select your prefer language as “English”
Follow the on screen instructions to install this audio editing software program. With the software
installed, you can record vinyl records into digital and store on your PC.
*If you using Windows 7 OS or MAC OS X, you can also download the free version of the latest “Audacity”
software to install on your computer (Details please refer “Audacity Software Quick Guide” later).
Download link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
How to use USB cable to connect your Turntable with your PC
1. Plug your USB turntable recorder to an AC outlet and connect the USB port on the turntable
recorder to the USB port of your computer.

2. Turn on the power switch on your turntable recorder and open the “audacity” program that you
have installed.
How to record your music into your PC
mbeat® USB turntable recorder is able to transfer music from turntable to PC with USB connection
by using the powerful audio edit software named “Audacity”. For the detailed software guide please
refer to the “Audacity Software Quick Guide” and Audacity official website as well.
Please note your computer audio configuration may slightly different as our manual
description, please check it carefully and make prompt changes to suit your system.
Some software knowledge is required to operate software in handling more complicated
functionalities
1. Turn on the USB turntable recorder, connect the USB cable to the device and computer, no extra
driver is required to drive the tape recorder
2. Your computer should detect a new “USB PnP Audio “device (USB Plug and Play Audio Device) or
it could named like “Generic USB Audio Device”, or whatsoever , they are all the way same thing,
just depending on how your PC call it.
3. Double click to open up the Audacity program and you will see this similar interface screen on
your computer.

4. Check the Stereo Mix column in the drop down menu and just to keep the default settings, the
software shall be able to auto default the USB tape recorder setting as “Stereo Mix” or “Line”, or
remain gray inactive color according your computer hardware configuration. Those factors are
not such key important and you can set up in“Preference” , under “Edit” menu as well
5. Adjust the output and input volume to get your desire sound volume when you using computer
speaker to play back , please note that this setting will not effect the final recording track volume
level, only effect the computer speaker volume, just works like your Windows OS volume and
microphone controller panel.
6. Important is to Select the “Edit” menu and then “Preference” and enter into the audio
input/output source settings.

In Audio I/O section , under Playback drop down menu select “Realtek HD Audio output “ ,
which means it is your sound card audio output to listen the music playback through tape
recorder while doing the recording internally. Under recording drop down menu, select “USB
PnP Audio”, which indicated the audio source from the tape recorder when it is plugged into the
computer. Your system may show the name like “Generic USB Audio device”, or “USB PnP
Device”, it does not matter. Important is to find the proper recording source that is match with
this USB turntable recorder
Please also tick “Software play through (Play new track while you are recording)” this
function enables you to real time monitor the recording track and playback (AS BELOW)

7. When everything is ready, then you can select the RECORD button to start recording
your tape music into digital format.
8. You can turn the USB turntable recorder volume down and turn on the computer speaker to
monitor your records, or you can turn off the computer speaker , using USB turntable recorder
speaker to monitor your records , it is totally up to you.
9.
7. Select the PAUSE button to pause the recording.
8. Select the STOP button to stop the recording.
9. Select the to skip to start.
10. Select the button to go to end.
11. You can see the recorded file on your computer and convert the recorded file to other formats
including .WAV/ MP3/Ogg Vorbis. Once the tape reaches its end, the tape recorder will stop to work
and you can turn around another side or change a new tape to keep recording as you like

Please note: if you try to convert the file into MP3 format, you need to install “LAME” encoder
software, and you install it at the first time you using then it will work in the future
How do I download and install the LAME MP3 encoder?
Because of software patents, we cannot distribute MP3 encoding software ourselves. Follow these
instructions to use the free LAME encoder to export MP3 files with Audacity.
Windows OS Users
zCheck your CD disk , there should have this file in the CD disk , and you
can copy into your computer somewhere that you can find to reload it on Audacity

zIf you can not find out this file, you can download and follow below steps to install it. Go
to the LAME download page. (Steps as Below)
zUnder "For Audacity on Windows", left-click the link "Lame v3.98.2 for Audacity on
Windows.exe" and save the file anywhere on your computer. Do not right-click the link
to the .exe file.
zDouble-click "Lame_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows.exe" to launch it (you can
safely ignore any warnings that the "publisher could not be verified").
zFollow the "Setup" instructions to install LAME for Audacity. Do not change the offered
destination location of "C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity".
zThe first time you use the "Export as MP3" command, Audacity will ask for the location of
"lame_enc.dll". Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity", select "lame_enc.dll",
then click "Open" and "OK".
zIf you prefer the Zip option for the LAME download, save the zip file to anywhere on your
computer, extract "lame_enc.dll" to any location, then show Audacity where to find it as
in Step 5 above.
zIn case of difficulty, please view our more detailed instructions on the Audacity Wiki.
12. Play the saved file.
Put the saved file in the Audacity program and press the PLAY button to play the file.
13. Download music into the digital MP3 or iPod device
Please save those converted music into a folder that you can easily to find, then you can copy or
paste those converted MP3/WMA/OGG files into your MP3 /MP4 player, or you can load them into
your iTunes then transfer into your iPod.

Please note, some of the digital MP3/MP4 player may not able to fully support all type of converted
music file, such as FLAC,. OGG due to the original hardware limitation, however most of digital music
player can support MP3 or WMA files.
Turntable basic maintenance
Replacing the stylus cartridge
-Refer to the figures 1-8
Installing a new stylus cartridge
-Refer to the figures 5 & 6
*NOTE
1. We strongly advise you to clean your records with an anti-static cloth to gain maximum
enjoyment from them and to make them last.
2. We would also point out that for the same reason your stylus should be replaced periodically
(approximately every 250 hours)

3. Dust the stylus from time to time using a very soft brush dipped in alcohol (brushing from
back to front of the cartridge)
WHEN TRANSPORTING YOUR TURNTABLE PLAYER, DO NOT FORGET TO:
1. Replace the protective cap on the stylus.
2. Put the rest clip into the pick-up arm.
Trouble shooting and FQA
1. Device is not power on
zCheck your main power board function
zCheck whether you plug the power plug into the power board and power board main
switch is on or not
zCheck whether you turn on the power button on the device or not
zCheck there is nothing jammed insertion slot inside
2. Can not play back record
zCheck whether the vinyl record is placed in the right side
zCheck the turntable is power on or not
zCheck volume settings is not mute
zCheck the tone arm is lifted and placed properly
zCheck the platter is spinning properly
zCheck whether the stylus cartridge is wore out and need to be changed
3. Noise from the speaker
zVinyl record has little background noise due to its natural acoustic character and minor
background noise is consider as normal
zCheck whether the Vinyl record track is damage or fade out
zDo not turn the USB turntable recorder speaker volume to max to get distortion
zCheck volume settings
zCheck whether the stylus cartridge is wore out and need to be changed
4. Can not find the USB audio device when plug it into my computer
zPlease refer manual topic “ How to record turntable music into computer” , please pay
attention to Audio I/O section settings on the audacity software , to get the record signal ,
you need to set up the proper in / out source under“Preference”
zOr you can refer the following “Audacity Software Quick Guide” – under topic “ Software
configuration”
5. Can not convert music into MP3 file and Save it

zYou need to install “LAME MP3 encoder” into your computer first time to make the audacity
save the music into MP3 format please refer “How do I download and install the LAME MP3
encoder?
6. How can I playback my recorded music?
zYou can play back your recorded music using Windows Media Player or iTune, for details
please refer Microsoft and Apple website for download and support content
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Audacity Software Quick Guide
For the complete manual please check the following website.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/documentation
Before recording and editing music please install the supplied software first. You can
also download the software from the website directly if your disk is not readable
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
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To Install Software (PC) & Record
1.Insert the CD that came with your product
2.Click on the “Audacity” file to open it and then click on the “audacity.exe” to run it. Follow the
on screen instructions to install the program.
3.With the software installed, you can record vinyl records to your PC.
4.Plug in your turntable to an AC outlet and connect the USB port on the Turntable to the USB
port of your computer.
5.Turn on the power switch on your turntable and open the audacity program that you have
installed.
Software Configuration
1. Select the “Edit” menu and then “ Preferences”
Select the USB audio device under the “Recording” selection as shown. Select “Software Play
through” to hear the audio while recording.
Note: The USB USB turntable recorder may show up with a different name in Windows
operation system. This may depend on your computer model and operating system. Please
select the proper device name

If you are still having difficulty finding the USB turntable recorder, try to check your system settings
or control panel to adjust audio input settings from the sound control panel.
After you have completed the above settings, you are ready for recording.
To record
1. Start Turntable and place needle on the record. Click the red record button on the toolbar to
begin recording from vinyl to PC.
2. When the track has finished recording click the orange stop button.
3. Drop down the“File”menu and select the intended music format to be “exported as”.
4. Select where you would like to save the file e.g. my music, name the file and save. (as the
audacity software can not save MP3 directly, please install the “lame_enc.dll” that can be found on
the installation disc, all other formats will save automatically).
Toolbars

Selection tool - for selecting the range of audio you want to edit or
Listen to.
Envelope tool - for changing the volume over time.
Draw tool - for modifying individual samples.
Zoom tool - for zooming in and out.
Timeshift tool - for sliding tracks left or right.
Multi tool-lets you access all of these tools at once depending on the
location of the mouse and the keys you are holding down.
Audio Control Buttons
Skip to Start - moves the cursor to time 0. If you press Play at this
point, your project will play from the beginning.
Play - starts playing audio at the cursor position. If some audio is
selected, only the selection is played.
Loop - if you hold down the Shift key, the Play button changes to a Loop button,
which lets you keep playing the selection over and over again.
Record-starts recording audio at the project sample rate (the sample rate in the
lower-left corner of the window). The new track will begin at the current cursor position, so
the“Skip to Start” button first if you want to the track to begain at time 0
Pause-temporarily stops playback or recording until you press
pauseagain.
Stop-stops recording or playing. You must do this before
applying effects, saving or exporting.
Skip to End - moves the cursor to the end of the last track.
Edit Toolbar

All of the buttons on this toolbar perform actions – and with a couple of exceptions, they’re all just
shortcuts of existing menu items to save you time. Holding the mouse over a tool will show a
“tooltip” in case you forget which one is which.
Cut
Copy
Paste
Trim away the audio outside the selection
Silence the selected audio
Undo
Redo (repeat last command)
ZoomIn
ZoomOut
Fit selection in window – zooms until the selection just fits inside the
window.
Fit project in window – zooms until all of the audio just fits inside the
window.
Track Pop-Down Menu
The Track Pop-Down Menu appears when you
click in a track’s title. This lets you access a few
special commands that apply to individual
tracks.
Name - lets you change the name of the track.

Move Track Up – exchange places with the
track above this one.
Move Track Down – exchange places with
the track below this one.
Waveform(dB) – similar to Wave form ,but
on a logarithmic scale, measured in decibels
(dB).
Spectrum – display the track as a
spectrogram, showing the amount of energy in
different frequency bands.
Pitch (EAC) – highlights the contour of the
fundamental frequency (musical pitch) of the
audio, using the Enhanced Autocorrelation
(EAC) algorithm.
Mono – makes this track a mono track,
meaning it is played out of just one speaker, or
played out of the left and right speakers
equally.
Left Channel – makes this track come out of
only the left speaker.
Right Channel – makes this track come out
of only the right speaker.
Make Stereo Track – if there is another
track below this one, joins them to make a
single stereo track, with the top track
representing the left speaker, and the bottom
track representing the right speaker.
When tracks are joined into a stereo pair, all
edits automatically apply to both the left and
right channel.
Split Stereo Track – if the selected track is a
stereo track (a pair of left and right tracks joined
together as a single track), this operation splits
them into two separate tracks that you can
modify and edit independently.
Set Sample Format –this determines the
quality of the audio data and the amount of
space it takes up. 16-bit is the quality used by
audio CD’s and is the minimum quality that
Audacity uses internally converted when you
open them). 24-bit is used in higher-end audio
hardware. 32-bit float unless you have a slow
computer or are running out of disk space.
Set Rate – sets the number of samples per
second of the track, 44100Hz is used by audio
CDs.
Tracks can have different sample rates in
Audacity; they are automatically re-sampled to
the project sample rate (in the lower-left corner
of the window).
[MENU]
File Menu
New – creates a new empty window
Open …- opens an audio file or an Audacity
project in a new window (unless the current
window is empty).
To add audio files to an existing project window,
use one of the Import commands in the Project
menu.

Close – closes the current window, asking you
if you want to save changes. On Windows and
Unix, closing the last window will quit Audacity,
unless you modify this behavior in the Interface
Preferences.
Save Project –
saves everything in the
window into an Audacity-specific format so that
you can save and quickly continue your work
later. An Audacity project consists of a project
file, ending in “.aup”, and a project data folder,
ending in “_data”. For example, if you name
your project “Composition”, then Audacity will
create a file called “Composition.aup” and a
folder called Composition_data. Audacity
project files are not meant to be shared with
other programs – use one of the Export
commands (below) when you are finished
editing a file.
Save Project As… - same as Save Project
(above), but lets you save a project as a new
name.
Recent Files –
brings up a list of files you
have recently opened in audacity to be
re-opened quickly.
Export As WAV - exports all of the audio in
your project as a WAV file, an industry-standard
format for uncompressed audio. You can
change the standard file format used for
exporting from Audacity by opening the File
Format Preferences. Note that exporting will
automatically mix and re-sample if you have
more than one track, or varying sample rates.
See also File Formats.
Export Selection As WAV - same as above,
but only exports the current selection.
Export as MP3 - exports all of the audio as
an MP3 file. MP3 files are compressed and
therefore take up much less disk space, but
they lose some audio quality. Another
compressed alternative is Ogg Vorbis (below).
You can set the quality of MP3 compression in
the File Format Preferences. See also MP3
Exporting.
Export Selection as MP3- same as above,
but only exports the current selection.
Export as Ogg Vorbis - exports all of the
audio as an Ogg Vorbis file. Ogg Vorbis files are
compressed and therefore take up much less
disk space, but they lose some audio quality.
Ogg Vorbis files tend to take up a little less disk
space than MP3 for similar compression quality,
and Ogg Vorbis is free from patents and
licensing restrictions, but Ogg Vorbis files are
not as widespread. You can set the quality of
Ogg compression in the File Format
Preferences.
Export Selection As Ogg Vorbis -
sameas above, but only exports the current
selection.
Export Labels - if you have a Label Track in
your project, this lets you export the labels as a
text file. You can import labels in the same text
format using the “Import Label…” command
in the Project Menu.

Export Multiple – lets you split your project
into multiple files all in one step. You can either
split them vertically (one new file per track), or
horizontally (using labels in a Label Track) to
indicate the breaks between exported files.
Page Setup – configure how Audacity will
print out the track waveforms using the Print
option, and what printer to use.
Print –
Print out the main window view from
audacity showing the tracks and waveforms.
Exit (Quit) – closes all windows and exits
Audacity, prompting you to save any unsaved
changes first.
Edit Menu
Undo – This will undo the last editing
operation you performed to your project.
Audacity supports full unlimited undo –
meaning you can undo every editing operation
back to when you opened the window.
Redo –This will redo any editing operations
that were just undone. After you perform a new
editing operation, you can no longer redo the
operations that were undone.
Cut – Removes the selected audio data and
places it on the clipboard. Only one “thing” can
be on the clipboard at a time, but it may
contain multiple tracks.
Copy – Copies the selected audio data to the
clipboard without removing it from the project.
Paste – Inserts whatever is on the clipboard at
the position of the selection or cursor in the
project, replacing whatever audio data is
currently selected, if any.
Trim – Removes everything to the left and
right of the selection.
Delete – Removes the audio data that is
currently selected without copying it to the
Silence – Erases the audio data currently
selected, replacing it with silence instead of
removing it.
Split –Moves the selected region into its own
track or tracks, replacing the affected portion of
the original track with silence. See the figure
below:
Duplicate – Makes a copy of all or part of a
track or set of tracks into new tracks. See the
figure below:
Select…> ALL-Selects all of the audio in all
of the tracks in the project.
Select…>Start to Cursor-Selects from the
beginning of the selected tracks to the cursor
position.
Select…>Cursor to End – Selects from the

cursor position to the end of the selected
tracks.
Find Zero Crossings – Modifies the
selection slightly so that both the left and right
edge of the selection appear on a
positive-slope zero crossing. This makes it easier
to cut and paste audio without resulting in and
audible clicking sound.
Selection Save – Remembers the current
selection (or cursor position), allowing you to
restore it later.
Selection Restore – Restores the cursor
position to the last position saved by “ Selection
Save”.
Move Cursor…>to Track Start- Moves the
cursor to the start of the current track.
Move Cursor…>to Track End-Move the
cursor to the end of the currently selected track.
Move Cursor…>to Selection Start-Moves
the cursor to the end of the current selection.
Move Cursor…>to Selection End-Moves
the cursor to the end of the current selection.
Snap-To…>Snap On- Enable Snap-To
mode. When Snap-To mode is enabled, the
selection will be constrained to the nearest
interval on the time scale, by default the
nearest second. So if you click and drag from
4.2 seconds to 9.8 seconds, it will result in a
selection from 4 seconds to 10 seconds, exactly.
You can change the units that are snapped to
using the “Set Selection Format” option in the
View Menu.
Snap-To…> Snap Off –
Turns Snap-To
mode off letting you select arbitrary ranges of
time.
Preferences - opens the Preferences dialog.
View Menu
Zoom In – Zooms in on the horizontal axis of
the audio, displaying more detail about less
time. You can also use the zoom tool to zoom in
on a particular part of the window.
Zoom Normal – Zooms to the default view,
which displays about one inch per second.
Zoom Out – Zooms out, displaying less detail
about more time.
Fit in Window – Zooms out until the entire
project just fits in the window.
Fit Vertically – Resizes all of the tracks
vertically so they all fit inside of the window (if
possible).
Zoom to Selection – Zooms in or out so
that the selection fills the window.