i'm researching a couple of options, but i want to know which programs the tech savvy kids on the blog suggest as far as ripping vinyl. i just want an easy to use interface, a program i can preferably download for free, and decent sound quality. i'm not looking to tweak or edit the files. i have a nice needle on a good turntable. and the mic input on the iMac seems to give me enough signal through my amp to record vinyl with some sound quality. i just don't know which programs to try out.
i've downloaded a couple of task specific programs like golden vinyl and vinyl ripper, the later which sucks. let me know what you think. because if i find a good program, i can upload a number of mp3s to the blog which i only have on record. that being a plus for everyone involved.
this is my little project of late.......
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Have you tried Audacity? I've been using it to digitize some old tapes and it seems to work pretty well.
no i'll look into it.
i never would've thought about cassette ripping. too bad most of my tapes were lost or stolen..........
golden records (by nch) seems to work pretty well. it has a setting to set the ambient noise on yr needle and that works well. but it's difficult to tweak the settings for optimal sound quality. also goldens pause/stop/split button seems to have a slight time inconsistancy which is causing me troubles splitting tracks.
but i do have a listenable copy of one of my records....one of the many. this process is a bit more labor intensive than i hoped. or maybe i'm too much of a perfectionist.......
maybe audacity will make things easier.
Yeah, audacity is really, really basic. And if you play with the noise reduction you can usually get it to sound good. But if the vinyl/needle are in good shape, you shouldn't really have to mess with it anyway.
Goddamn bottle and can people clanging around outside my window woke me up, and now i cant go back to sleep. 4 am sigh...
I know that there is specific hardware thats not too spendy, that works as an audio interface specifically for this purpose, the brands of which I have no idea. Given the amount of records I suspect you would want to digitize, you might want to look into this. Accompanying programs then EQ/compress specific to this process; if you direct line in it will sound good but will take up quite a bit of harddrive space over time. Audacity would work well, you would just have to EQ it yourself, and cut each song, close that file (as you can usually only run one project file at a time) then open a new project, import one track at a time, bounce it as a wav file, then "find" an mp3 converter (the last audacity I had tried to sell you an mp3), and on and on. If you want to have specific tracks as opposed to each side of record being a track, thatd be the way to do it. So you might want to look into the softwares that are specific to digitizing records; they seem to prompt you through the EQing/having what you export as tracks/not taking up a lot of space project a lot easier. Jeeyust a thought...
well i have XACT. that not only encodes/decodes FLACs (which is why i have it, and suggest it to you all), but it also is an mp3 encoder. a nice one at that.....so that part of the process i'm not to worried about. iTunes actually can convert yr audio files to different formats besides the dread m4a, actually. but hardware was what i wanted to avoid. but you're right that it might make this process easier. i do not want to have to re rip any of these albums ever. its too labor intensive.....
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