Ion U-record Music Archiver

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Technical Details

• Phono/line input records from a turntable
• Plug and play USB connection - No drivers
• EZ Vinyl Converter software (PC) and EZ Audio
• Audacity software records, edits and corrects

Product Description



USB audio interface with recording software with large, easy to use illuminated buttons for control.
If you already have old turntable or cassette player save some money and get this for $50.





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Customer Reviews


No Good For Me, October 19, 2009
By Ritteach (Hudson Valley,NY)


Did not get any sound out of computer(pretty simple connection ,only one way to hook up).Amazon as usual was great and processed return with no problems.


Great tool for Archiving old tunes, September 23, 2009
By Kirk James "Captain from Parchment" (Parchment, Mi USA)

I had 300+ old cassette tapes and a lot of them contain music that can't be found on iTunes. I bought the I-on U-recorder and was somewhat skeptical of what I'd get. It's a simple gadget with only the one input variable but that's all you need. The software is easy to install and operate. The interface with iTunes is easy to use (I hate iTunes) and I can't complain. I'm very satisfied with this product and would recommend it to anyone. I haven't tried it with vinyl yet but I'm assuming that I'll get the same output.



Exceeds all expectations, August 23, 2009
By James Fox "Atavist" (Chicago)


Copying and then filtering scratchy vinyl recordscan be daunting, but Ion's "U-record", with its advanced editing features, is an amateur's dream!


Don't call me for the next year. I'm busy converting!, August 21, 2009
By Steve Shubert (Santa Monica, CA United States)

Use of this product is based mostly on the software selected; this review is specifically when using the Audacity software, which was so easy it's hard to believe they also included something that is apparently even easier (EZ Vinyl Converter).

I love this product! I have converted over 50 complete albums so far. Once you've recorded you can easily assign labels to each track. Then you can export in wave format, Ogg Vorbis (?), or MP3. I always use MP3 at 192 Kbps; it's a good compromise between quality and a useful compression ratio. The `Export Multiple' function allows you to submit the additional metadata (artist, album title, genre, year) once; it then exports each song, with the pre-assigned label as the song name, and all the metadata is automatically included. Thus, later, if you are in the Windows file system and you hover your mouse over a song you can see the artist, album title etc. without having to first access it via music software.

There are some definite oversights and flaws in the software. Here are some tips that can make things much easier:
1. Use legal file names for your labels. Audacity will accept several characters that Windows (& I'm guessing Mac too) will not, but when you go to export it the export will fail. You don't get an explanation for the failure either, so it took me some time to figure this out, but I haven't had a single failure since I started conforming.
2. Volume make a huge difference; always record as loudly as you can short of pinning it at zero! I try to have the higher levels go to about -3 on the record-meter, and if an occasional spike hits the zero mark it's OK. In the beginning I was too worried about distortion from recording too loudly, and I ended up having to go back and re-record my first few albums.
3. Audacity will not accept a lower case `z' when assigning labels! I have no clue why, but just use a capital `Z' instead and it works fine.
4. If you expect to do a lot of editing it's a good idea to save a `raw' version of the project, and edit a separate copy. That way you can back up and start over easily if you're not sure how to undo something, without having to record it all again first.
5. The projects are HUGE. It takes about a half-gigabyte for a project (an album), so once I have exported several albums I copy those MP3 files to a CD and delete the project files, leaving only the MP3 versions still on the computer. I get about 12 albums to a CD.
6. Occasionally the album is severely scratched and I need noise reduction. It's very easy; the main caveat is to not clean up all the dead space first, because Audacity needs a `noise profile' to figure out what to remove, and the dead space at the front or back of the recording is the best place to get it. If you do remove noise be sure and preview it and adjust the level of removal desired. It will flatten the sound somewhat, but it's still better than something so noisy it's unusable. In one case removing the noise also removed half of the song because the software could not distinguish between ocean waves and distortion ("Love From Room 109 at the Islander" by Tim Buckley).

The software has many powerful options that I have yet to explore. You can add special effects, combine different music sources into a single output, and much more. I give this product five stars even though it has flaws. Between the very low price, the trivial setup, and the power of the software, this is a top candidate for the best $50 I ever spent.





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