nicketynick wrote: > Thanks for the response Pat you're welcome
>. I'm using Nero wave editor to look at my > recordings, which is where I notice that the peaks are running 15db > lower on the loud bits, whereas if there is any difference in the > silences, it is not as visible. This indicates to me that I've lost > S/N, but db is logarithmic, right, so it's not as bad as it looks, is > it? Are you recording at 24 bits or 16? You might want to take a quick look at http://www.pfarrell.com/prc/bits.html Look carefully at the lead-in or lead-out sections between tracks. It should be all noise. If it is also 15 dB down, you have sufficient headroom. Of interest to this discussion is "we say that twice as loud, or one more bit of data, is a tad over 6.02 dB" so your 15 dB is two and a half bits. Out of 16, that is a fairly high percentage, but out of 24 it is no big deal. > I'm kind of winging it here - I just don't want to find out later that > I should have done something differently, because then I'll be tempted > to do it all over again! (and I'm already getting trouble for spending > so much time on this little project!) Converting LPs takes tons of time, far more than people expect. And for me, it takes far more time than the $10 that most of my pop LPs cost as CDs. But some of my folk and jazz LPs are out of print and important to me, so they are worth the time. For me, while I have both Cool Edit (now called Adobe Audition ) and Sonar, and lots of plug-ins from my recording studio, I do not use any noise reduction on converted LPs. All of the noise plug-ins have audible artifacts, so I just live with the occasional pop. My LPs were well kept, I had audiophile turntables (at least at the time they were) for years before I went over to the dark side with CDs. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
