Re: Vinyl to disc capture

[Andrew Rodger]

Thanks to all who responded to this question. I have Charismac's 
Audioscribe which was a very simple and easy application, well suited 
to lifting tracks from vinyl.  It was possible amongst other features  
to set the spaces and breaks manually or automatically though, as 
others have said, it was never a good idea to use scratch filtering.  
It is a shame they did not develop it for OSX.  I have used Sound 
Studio and Spark ME to edit the tracks afterwards (fade in and out, 
removing pops etc). Pops are easy to spot and clip but crackle is 
something which - I suppose - would need some sensitive frequency 
balancing or compression of the dynamic range to suppress it. I prefer 
to hear all the detail, warts and all, though a lot of noise can be 
removed by very carefully setting up the deck, arm and cartridge.  I 
shall have a look at Spin Doctor and the Griffin software.  I am also 
curious to know what use a PowerWave is. I just run high quality cable 
from the preamplifier tape monitor to the G4 minijack in and another 
one from mini jack out to the aux input.  I often wonder if there is a 
way of improving the connections and the signal quality but I have 
rather subscribed to the principal of the "the fewer things on the 
signal path the better".  Which made me wonder about the other Griffin 
device (Powermate?) and whether I could plug the G4 directly into the 
Power Amp without risk of speaker destruction when powering up the G4 
!:0]

Cheers

Drew

On 17 Apr 2004, at 16:55, Brian Steere wrote:

First off  - the vinyl bit isnt necessary. You just want software that 
can
record sound in. (I presume you have sound in).
If you do a search at <http://www.versionttracker.com> for 'Sound' you 
will
get an idea of what is out there.
Felt Tip Sound Studio is one such.
But if you have Toast you also have Spin Doctor which as well as being 
able
to record sound in, can easily allow it to be separated into tracks 
and if
you want you can apply crackle and hiss filters etc. These filters 
have a
cost just as dust and scratches filters do in graphic applications.
Sometimes the clarity with crackle is better than a muffle in my 
opinion.

If anyone does know a good way to clean up sound hiss and crackle I 
would
like to know about it. Spin Doctor is quick and dirty but more dirty 
than
I'd like. I generally think its better to buy a new CD if its still on 
sale.

The mp3 part is easier to do with iTunes or even QuickTime - unless you
prefer a 3rd party mp3 encoder.


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