cunobelinus;688319 Wrote: > On 2 Feb 2012, at 15:36, cliveb wrote: > > > Assuming you're using a decent modern soundcard its noise floor will > be > > so far below that of the vinyl that you have heaps of headroom > > available. Therefore you can afford to be very conservative when > > setting levels and normalise later. So no need for a dry run, which > > will save you 45 mins. > > Thanks for the suggestion, but as far as I remember, despite a very > decent ADC, that was not my experience with those of the classical > recordings that I was transferring that have an extremely wide dynamic > range. I'll experiment again next time I have a session, though, and > pray I'm wrong. Well, just because the music is well-recorded classical does not alter the fact that vinyl LPs have a maximum dynamic range around the 60dB mark - perhaps 70dB for a pristine "audiophile" pressing with a following wind.
Modern soundcards routinely achieve noise floors below -90dB. (Even my modest M-Audio AP2496, which must be well over 5 years old, achieves about -93dB). Using such a soundcard, you can safely record LPs at a peak level down around -12dB and the vinyl surface noise will still overwhelm the soundcard's noise floor. My recommendation is to visually inspect the LP to find what looks to be the loudest section, then set levels to peak at about -9dB on that section. That still gives you a decent amount of headroom for surprise peaks. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93265 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
