[Ham-Computers] Recording Vinyl To CD Format

Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:21:28 -0400

Hello Scott, 	

I have done audio recording for many decades, so I am very familiar with
equipment and procedure. Rather than go through a preamp, I can set the levels
on the DAT unit to feed the sound card. I can loop the signal through the DAT
back to the amplifier and use the house speakers as monitors. I am gambling that
I can avoid having to clean up the audio by doing it already when I record vinyl
to the DAT. The digital signal should be clean when it reaches the sound card.	

However, what the computer generates is another issue. There I will probably
need some software to clean up the electronic gibberish. The platinum edition of
Easy CD Creator is supposed to contain a number of different routines to handle
noise and other issues. Has anyone used it and what think ye? 		

Perhaps I should just be contented with DAT and forget putting the vinyl on CD.
After all, I have twin DAT units and everything is backed up. But the technology
used to convert the vinyl to digital on DAT works great, so it stands to reason,
(yea, I know. common sense is the rarest form of intelligence, among humans.),
that it should be 'not that difficult' (patented Fischer smirk) to put the vinyl
on CD. 	

So get busy and help the old blind dude out here. One of you wizards surely can
find away to wire these wonders in a way that works without having to train an
Octopus to help run the boards. 	

I await your solutions, gentlemen.	

Duane W8DBF	
[email protected]	

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From: S & S Mackay <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Recording Vinyl To CD Format
Date: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:16 AM

Duane,
I am not familiar with the software you are using so can't help with set
up.  However alot depends on how much you want to manipulate the
recording process.  I record from the turntable thru a Radio shack
preamp to the sound card.  For vinyl in good shape, I simply set the
levels using the windows program... usually by ear.  If I have to clean
up pops, noise etc., then I have to run other programs to do that...more
complex.  I also use a program called singulator that senses tracks on
the disc and creates tracks on the CD.
Back to the basics.  I think a phono preamp with knobs would help you
set levels without reading the screen all the time, i.e. set up the
soundcard levels once on the screen and then use the knobs on the preamp
to account for record levels.  Since Singulator works by detecting
periods of silence between tracks, preamp level setting might be
effective there too.  I haven't done any manipulation during the
recording to CD phase.

Hope these ideas help.  I would like to read of other approches too, so
I hope the list kicks in with lots of dialog.
I think it's doable if we collectively think about it.

I only have about 150 LPs to go.  Wish I knew of a way to speed up the
process.  Then of course there are the hundred or so reels of tape.

Cheers,

Scott  W7GSM

"Duane Fischer, W8DBF" wrote:
> 
>         Hi All,
> 
> I have kicked this topic around in the past and never came to a firm
conclusion.
> While there are several software packages that purport to work well for
> converting vinyl recordings to a CD format, they all seem to have some
annoying
> or serious quirks/flaws.
>          
               Stuff Snipped
> 

> Maybe it is not doable for me at all. I do not know. I am open to suggestions
> from those of you who have actually copied vinyl albums to CDS.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
>
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