Converting A Vinyl Record To Digital

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Nickeccles

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Well this is something I really love to do:

Get hold of a rare dance record or megamix from the Dj only era, place it on a quality turntable with a new cartridge & stylus & see the damped tonearm slowly descend & hit the groove - This is the first stage, record digitally @ CD quality 44.1 KHz 16 Bit to a raw wave file!! Then the digital magic gets applied & if you love audio & technology, this is so fulfilling - channel balance, optimum output level without pushing the limits of the digital format (Distortion in the digital domain is harsh & unusable) With a decent turntable & cartridge, there is only very small corrections to make :-)

Once the wave file is completed, the lead in & out grooves removed just leaving the audio, it's time to encode to Lame mp3 @ 256 kbps using the highest quality settings - my PC is very fast, i7 - 8 core CPU & 16 Gb of ddr 3 ram so this process takes very little time & the finished track is now ready to add the artist & track info before it gets added to my music folder & online folders for all to enjoy :-)

Here's a few pictures of the process..........
 

Fatdog

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Very nice, Nick! My method is similar.

Technics SL-1200MKII
Steinberg Wavelab
iZotope RX Audio Editor
 

hemiguy2006

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I did this just recently as well for my father in law.
He had some old vinyls that he could not find in digital format.
I use a mac computer so I have my technics 1200 m3d hooked up to line input on my Mac mini.
I use garage band software for creating a lossless one to one copy of the material.
Complete with track listings and artwork.
Kind of a painstaking process but the results are fantastic
 

superlew

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Here's my "Kitchen Table Concoction":

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Haven't archived anything in a while, due to the combined mic/phones jack on my relatively new HP Spectre. Nice computer, but the lack of analog inputs on the newer 2-in-1 machines leaves something to be desired.
I took a ride to my local Micro Center and grabbed a SoundBlaster SBX ProStudio USB sound card.

Here's the breakdown on the fairly simple set-up:
Denon DP-30L Turntable to Phono In on the Technics SA-5470 Receiver.
Tape 1 OUT (Record) from the 5470 to the SoundBlaster.
Headphones direct from the SoundBlaster for monitoring.
Line-Out from SoundBlaster to Aux-In on 5470 for playback (I suppose I could use Tape 1, as well).
Oh, and the SoundBlaster to USB on the HP.

I record each side to Audacity as a single recording. Once the complete album is recorded, I apply the click filter, if needed, and manually touch up any pops, clicks, and skips that the filter misses. Split the recording into individual tracks. Add all pertinent info to "Properties" for each file so it's easily organized into my library.

The method has always served me well. A little time-consuming, but still good, clean, productive fun on a cold and breezy November day. Yesterday was the first time I used the HP for archiving. The results are as good as they always were on my old Toshiba.

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