Vereina;384516 Wrote: > Many thanks again to all who have replied (and apologies for not having > said so sooner). I really appreciate the fact that you all took the > time to share your knowledge and experience. > > I have now bought an Edirol UA-1EX USB DAC, and am looking forward to > starting to experiment (just as soon as I have time to do so ....). To > begin with, I am going to try using Audacity, although may look at > alternatives later on. > > As for the sample rate and word length: given all you've said, I'm > going to try 24 bit / 48 kHz to being with (and will also do some > comparisons with other resolutions). It sounds like that should be > perfectly adequate. > > And I do, by the way, have a Nitty Gritty record cleaning machine. > Quite invaluable when buying second-hand records! I dare say that the > records being clean makes an order of magnitude more difference than > fine details of the hardware and software setup being used .... > > Thanks again ....
Take a little care with the 24/48 encoding. 1 - File sizes are enormous. x4 even compressed to FLAC is typical. 2 - I have done some experimenting and could hear no audible difference off LP, and I would class myself as a very discerning listener. Mind you the HF hearing loss at my age (49) would make any sonic benefit from a 48khz sampling rate inaudible anyway! 3 - If you ever want to write the files to a "red book" CD (CD-R /CD-RW) then you will be down-sampling to 16/44.1 which can introduce significant errors and compromises when converting 48 to 44.1 4 - Everything you do on the digital side will take a lot longer! I am getting into a quite reasonable work-flow. When I started recording my LPs I noticed how few of them I had actually listened to in the last 10-15 years. I realised that I would have to listen to an LP to decide whether or not to record it. But then again, why not record it while I listen to it anyway? If the record is really hateful I can always bin the data rather than encode it. Although very time consuming I am thoroughly enjoying this process, rediscovering music I had forgotten I had. So my work-flow is - clean the LP. I don't have any fancy machinery. I use neat washing up detergent (Fairy Liquid) which I apply with my fingers (taking care to avoid the label). I then rinse off under a cold tap. You can do this so that very little water is trapped in the grooves - it tends to "bead" and run off quite well anyway. I finish off by dabbing with a piece of paper towel. Maybe not the ideal cleaning method, but way better than not cleaning at all - and it is surprising what a huge difference such a simple process has made to many of my older and grubbier LPs. - put on headphones. To avoid microphony with the LP12 I never monitor using speakers. - launch the recording software, pick the loudest track and set the level. - drop the needle, sit back and enjoy the music. - my software (Spin-it-again) uses on line databases to label the tracks and suggest track breaks. I do a bit of minor editing and then it saves the single WAV recording as separate WAV files for each track - use dBpoweramp to batch process from WAV -> FLAC and MP3tag to add the tag data. I am well used to the odd click and pop so I don't bother with any "clean-up" processing. All in all it adds about 5 minutes to the beginning (to clean) and 15 - 20 minutes to the end of any LP I listen to, which is not so bad. I have done about 40 so far and it has taken me about 4 months, so that is about 2-3 LPs a week. At this rate it will take me another 5 years to finish my collection. Not a process for those in a hurry! -- TheLastMan Matt SB Duet, Synology Diskstation 107+ with FW 2.0-0600 SqueezeCenter 7.3.1 and SSODS 3 beta 15. Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers. LPs ripped using Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap, M-Audio 2496. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57431 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
