I go from my turntable into my sound card, useing a program called Cooledit. Works great for me... save the files as an Mp3, then use adaptec to write to the CD..... Once I have written the CD, I save all my mp3's as files to a disk as well..

I have found using a program like cooledit allows you the opportunity to trim the beginning and ends of the songs of unwanted silence. I am sure there are other programs that do the same thing.