[Vintage-Audio] Re: Vinyl Vs CDS

[Rick Larson]

Roy asks:
> At 11:05 AM 3/12/03 -0500, you wrote:
> ... I burned a copy of my vinyl to CD -- much better.
> 
> Mike,
> 
> I am interested in how you did that.
> 
> What digitizer equipment/software did you use?
> 
> I will hopefully soon be recording some of my old 78's onto cassette, and 
> possibly digital files/cd's and I am a complete novice at the digital stuff.

I've burned a few old Blue Note LPs to cd.  I was very surprised
how well they sounded compared to a purchased cd.  I thought they
sounded even better.

I don't have any fancy equipment but what I did was:

Preamp (with phono section)
turntable

RCA stereo plug to 1/8" stereo plug cable
PC with sound card
Roxio Easy Creator 5 with 'Spin Doctor'

Connect cable between tape out in preamp and 'line in' on PC sound card.
start spin doctor and get levels as you would do when taping on to tape.
Record....

I didn't apply any effects or filtering and recorded directly to hard drive.

Then I used 'pop/click/...' effects on the hard drive copy and created
another version of the LP (I put these in an 'edit' directory).  Once
I'm satsified with the processing, I burn to cd.  I spent ~3X the
time length of the LP.

rick