cliveb;400543 Wrote: > Fair point: if you want your vinyl readily accessible via > Squeezeboxes/portable players, and if you have no money to buy the CDs, > then digitizing the LPs is an option. Depends on how much you value your > time.
With three children under 8, I have no money and I value my time very highly! I also value listening to music very highly, so I don't begrudge the time it takes to record the LPs. > It looks like your LP transfer process is significantly simpler than > mine. If it only takes you 20 minutes per album (presumably on top of > the recording time itself), then I take it that you don't do any sort > of restoration work? No I don't. I actually find that very few of my LPs have any significant surface noise problems, usually those I owned as a student. And after 35 years of listening to LPs my ear/brain interface seems to filter out the odd pop and crackle quite effectively. I am gradually honing down the work-flow which is mainly through Spin-it-Again (SIA); - Immediately after the recording is stopped SIA presents a graphical representation of the recording with suggested track breaks based on tag data downloaded from an on-line database. The most time is spent fine tuning the start and end points for each track, about a minute per track (8 - 12 minutes per disk) - SIA then writes out the tracks as seperate WAV files (3 minutes) - I then use dBpoweramp to convert these to FLAC (2 minutes). - SIA does most of the tagging work. It names the WAV files for each track with tag data downloaded from on-line databases, so after conversion to FLAC files, a quick flick of MP3tag and the file name is converted back to tag data. (2 minutes) - I usually download cover art and set up the folder for the album while it is recording. > I'm at the other end of the spectrum: having recorded the LP, I spend > hours obsessing over cleaning it up, using mainly manual methods. I do > have a wide range of automatic tools, but in most cases they don't get > used. You really -must- enjoy it then... ;-) > Interestingly we have very similar setups. You have LP12/Naim > 72/Hicap/M-Audio 2496. My setup is LP12/Naim 42.5/Catflap/M-Audio 2496. > (The Catflap is a home-built PSU that replaced a Hicap). I know. You provided some invaluable advice when I set up my LP recording system, in particular you recommended the M-Audio 2496 and you suggested using the audio output from the Hi-cap into the PC rather than using the tape loop, which has a low gain. I am extemely pleased with the output from this setup, the LP rips are easily a match for those from CD, and when played through speakers (as opposed to headphones) surface noise is almost inaudible. -- TheLastMan Matt SB Duet, Synology Diskstation 107+ with FW 2.0-0600 SqueezeCenter 7.3.1 on Synology Package Manager 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=60096 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
