Wow, is that really worth the trouble? I can appreciate the desire to up the sampling from normal CD (say 24bit/320KHz rather than 16bit/ 44KHz) or avoid compression (PCM rather than Fraunhofer/LAME), but I'd imagine you'd need some pretty hard core analog equipment to keep the noise level down (record warps and low-freq rumble) - or is that part of the charm? :)
On Apr 22, 1:42 pm, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah you'll probably need a phono pre-amp. I put my turntable into a > mixer and got gain out of it but the EQ wasn't balanced, so I assume > the phono pre-amp will "know what to do". Perhaps even just an old > turntable amp with tape line out. > > I just used normal wave recording software. You adjust the gain so > its within range but not clipping.. But not too low that you get extra > noise. Then you can trim and normalize the signal (it finds the max > point and adjusts the volume so the max fits within the bits). This > is not compression it's just a gain adjustment so its not quieter than > it needs to be. > > There probably are software filters but I find they do more harm than > good.. but those are just the ones i tried years ago. if your extra > keen you get take the clicks out by hand. > > I also found that my turntable was slightly the wrong speed, so I > compared a song length with the same from a CD and worked out the > ratio to adjust. > > I also found I could convert old 78s this way on my turntable by > recording it at 45 then speeding it up. > > On Apr 22, 4:45 pm, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On account there are folks on this forum that know a thing or two > > about the art of recording audio to a digital format, I thought would > > try posing a question. But first the setup: > > > My teen-aged son and I were watching recent episode of Fringe where > > Peter repairs an old turn table for his alternate reality father, > > Walter. My son commented how he was at a friends house and that they > > pulled out an old LP player and he listened to vinyl analog recordings > > for the first time. This prompted me to go to the garage and fetch my > > British-made Regga turn table and LP album collection. They had > > probably been entombed for 20 years. > > > The Regga is an audiophile turn table, tone arm, and stylus cartridge > > - it was about a $500 combination in early 1980s dollars. It's very > > simple mechanically. The motor is off in a corner and conveys motive > > power to the spindle via belt. The platter is 1 inch thick solid > > glass. Instead of an electronic feed-back loop to regulate the > > rotational speed, it instead relies on the fly wheel effect of a > > massive platter. The bottom line is the design and construction keeps > > the stylus very well insulated from extraneous vibration. > > > My son was, well, blown away from the sonic experience of listening to > > vinyl LPs played on this system. It was though he were listening to > > music for the first time. The detail, spatial location, subtle > > texture, dynamic range between quite to vibrant strains were all more > > alive than iTunes music. A good way to tell is listen to the 1978 > > recording of the Pat Matheny Group album vs the iTunes version of this > > music. You'll be tempted to just delete the iTunes version - it's just > > flat and stale sounding in comparison to the analog vinyl. > > > So all this has lead me the matter of what to do with my album > > collection. I'm thinking that the main problem with modern MP3 > > download music is that the dynamic range has been overly compressed. > > Surely I could make digital recordings from the phono output of my > > turntable that would retain the character of musical experience? > > > Do I need to use a phono preamp before feeding a signal into the audio > > input on my computer? > > > Should I invest any any particular analog-to-digital audio hardware > > device? > > > What software would be good to use? I'll be recording entire sides of > > an LP at a time and then wanting to go back and split it into separate > > files per each song. > > > Is there any software filter that specializes in reducing pops and > > clicks from analog media? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
