Dan Draney wrote:
Having done a great deal of work in this area (over 50 LP's converted so far), I can tell you I have not found anything in the Mac world to match the setup I use for this purpose. It involves a PC, (so you Mac loyalists can put your blinders on now!), and a program called Wave Corrector (http://www.wavecor.co.uk/). Of course you need a pretty good turntable if you want quality, but to each his own. I ended up finding a perfect little Akai component stereo on Ebay and setup a dedicated music PC for this, but you don't really have to go that far. Of course if you don't go that route and use a turntable with a magnetic cartridge, you will still need a preamp to get the audio to a proper level for the sound card input. The PC itself doesn't have to be anything costly, I use a simple PII-233 Mhz system with 64 Mb of RAM. If you don't use a PC with onboard sound you will also need a cheap Soundblaster compatiable card. I can also highly recommend these guys (http://www.audioreplay.net/ebayindex.html) if you need a preamp. I use one of their's with my setup and they really go the extra mile to make sure you are satisfied with their products. As for the software, I tried many others (Spin Doctor was one), before I settled on Wave Corrector. This software was simply the best for removing those annoying pops and clicks from the old vinyl. And lastly, or course the quality of your digital audio will depend a lot on how good your original LP is. If you have a record that sound like crap when played on the turntable, chances are it will sound just as bad when converted to digital format. No software can remove all of the defects from old vinyl, but Wave Corrector was/is the best I have found to date.On Oct 12, 2004, at 4:51 AM, Stewart, Brian C wrote:
Suggestions for a freeware/shareware utility to record audio files from the
MIC/AUX audio input.
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I was just curious if anyone has any suggestions for recording music through
the audio port in Mac OS X. I am looking for a shareware/freeware app that
allows for Gain Control and filtering of spikes. I imagine that there has to
be something for Mac OS X. I don't need a $5,000 audio/video editing
software package. I don't mind a two step copy to audio then rip MP3
process.
I believe Amadeus II can do that. I used CD Disk Doctor (part of Toast) under system 9 a couple of years ago, but I wasn't that thrilled with CD Disk Doctor.
Dan
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