[Vintage-Audio] Re Vinyl Vs CDS --CD Software

Wed Mar 12 21:32:00 2003

Mike, 	

You can go into Control Panel and set up the CD burner to be the drive you wish
it to be. If you let Windows 98+ do it automatically, it picks the next drive by
default.	

Being as this list is about vintage audio, I avoided the area of optical
recording. 	

I noted with interest on the History Channel program about the National Library
of Congress 'Save Our Sound' project, that the engineers prefered analog to
digital for accuracy and true fidelity. Ther eis much lost in every conversion
step, regardless of the technology. Digital is binary, that is, zeros and ones.
The NLC does not clean up the original tracks they preserve, because doing so
destroys the original sound. hence, the historical value is lost. What the
digital equipment does do is help them recover audio that would otherwise be
forever lost. 		

I never use any kind of filtering when recording, including Dolby. They all
remove something and sound is lost. I get as good of an original as I can to
begin with instead. The fewer steps from source to copy, the better. 	

Personal taste plays a big role in what a person thinks is 'good' audio. What
some are satisfied with, I could not stand to listen to for more than a minute
without tossing it into the nearest trash can. Some of us are contented with
artifically produced and enhanced sound and others, such as I, demand that the
instrument sound like the real one. 	

Duane W8DBF	

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From: Mike Clarson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Re Vinyl Vs CDS --CD Software
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:53 PM

 One comment on CD Creator. I tried it on my laptop and I could only set it
up to work if the drive that records is drive D. On the laptop, the internal
drive always comes up as D and the external one always comes up as E. I use
some SONY supplied software (Bee's Recorder Gold, I think). For best skip
free (well, skip reduced) results, disconnect from any network, shut down
any software that is running especially anti-virus software. I think these
packages record direct to CD and do not record onto the hard drive except
maybe for some buffering, and, if you want to be able to select the track,
you need to stop after each one. I know it sounds like I have done a lot of
this, but I have yet to record from vinyl onto my computer and be satisified
enough with it to burn a CD.  Duane's suggestion of getting a standalone
unit is a good one especially if many LP's are involved. Some even break up
the tracks by sensing silence. 

Last comment: Some recorders cannot handle some of the info on prerecorded
CD's -- there is a setting (set when recording the CD)to allow one track to
blend into the next one with NO gap. Some software and players (Windows
Mediaplayer, for one) do not recognize this and always insert a gap.--Mike,
WV2ZOW
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