I have my 40yo Pioneer turntable (quite nice) hooked up to my 20yo Sony
receiver and thence to my iMac. I occasionally rip a vinyl album using
Audacity then export an MP3 to iTunes, which is sorta crappy way to do
it but it works OK. I have some CDs I have made in the past using the
same process but going to whatever the CD format was from Audacity, and
converting to MP3 too for iTunes.
You are doing it pretty much right if it works and sounds half decent.
Audacity has a clean-up function now too I think, I recall using it once
and it did improve the recording but did not eliminate all the pops. I
think it has a track separation function too so you can separate the
tracks easily and then name them for export. Been awhile since I have
fooled with it, I always have to relearn how to do it all.
I heard on the radio yesterday that vinyl sales are booming again, the
hipsters have discovered turntables!
--R
On 12/3/14 6:39 PM, Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes wrote:
Listers:
I know that some of you are audiophiles to some degree. So this is directed
at you. We have an eclectic collection of LPs of all types of music. A
while back I bought my wife (the main music lover) a cheap ION USB
turntable. She already had a good quality component turntable, but I
figures the USB interface would make it easy to transfer vinyl to digital.
The results were so-so. Recently she gave away the vintage quality TT to
our son, a recent convert to vinyl.
In addition to creating a need for a quality component, this event also
cleared a spot on our A-V components rack. After much research and
comparison shopping, I bought an Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB TT from
Amazon.
I received this unit yesterday, and have just converted my first LP to MP3
files today. My workflow was to use the most recent version of Audacity to
convert my wife's old ELO Eldorado album to wav files on my HTPC through the
USB interface. The HTPC has a 6-core AMD FX processor and an ASUS XONAR DG
Headphone Amp & PCI 5.1 Audio Card. I then transferred the files (one for
each album side) to my ThinkPad T61 laptop running Sound Forge 10 (SF) and
equipped with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PMCMCIA card. I ran the SF audio
cleaner module on the wav files, then saved them to MP3 files, all using the
default settings in SF.
I then saved the MP3s to the network HD, and am currently playing them back
through the HTPC using VLC. All I can say is that the results are totally
satisfactory! There is still a little bit of vinyl noise remaining after the
SF cleanup, but it is significantly reduced from the original recordings.
Considering that the cleanup took only a few seconds I am very impressed
with the results.
As to the turntable itself: After reading some negative reviews, I examined
the platter and all other criticized items carefully. I could notice no
warping of the platter, and all other parts of the turntable looked very
good. As an amateur machinist, I do have a stand and dial indicator. I may
gauge the runout of the platter just to see if there is any measurable
warpage that I am unable to detect visually. I am favorably impressed with
the quality and feature set considering the moderate cost of the unit. I
have read that a DIY mat made of cork or rubber will improve the sound
quality, and am pleased to see that the height of the tone arm is adjustable
to accommodate a thicker mat.
Since I am a rank beginner at doing this, I am curious if any of you have
experience with this activity to share.
Greg
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