Hello everybody There’s a software solution out there which Dane recently pointed out to me called “Vinyl Studio”. Available for Windows & MacOS, Vinyl Studio seems to totally out-perform the rest of the similar products I have at my disposal, including Sound Forge Professional and even Adobe Audition, (which I use at the community radio station where I work).
Vinyl Studio can even detect the sound of your placing the stylus down on a disk, and start recording automatically thereafter until either the end of a track, or until you list the queue arm again. The noise reduction / crackle removal seems to be at least on a par with those which retail for 10 times the price of this software. Plus, you don’t get the clipping effect which most of those actually insert by trimming the higher frequencies where you’d get crackle much too aggressively. I have literally thousands of albums and probably an equal number of old 45’s, plus a handful of 78’s (which my deck will not accommodate, sadly). I have already searched high and low on the Internet, as well as in a number of UK and Europe-wide music stores without any luck for a goodly number of these albums. Until now, I hadn’t given serious thought to sampling them, owing to the fact that without processing, crackles and pops from some of these 1960s and 1950s albums actually sound much more pronounced post-sampling. So I’d more or less given up on them. Now, however, thanks to Vinyl Studio, my plans for these albums have been radically revised, and I’ve just brought most of them down from my attic, where they’ve been stored for years in dust-proof cartons. Some of them haven’t been opened during the course of my lifetime, which is considerable, I might say! Thanks, Dane, for this very excellent recommendation. Well, I’m saying thanks, maybe not actually, because you have just created several hundreds of hours of work for me I think. ;-) I say that very tongue-in-cheek, because I’m actually really looking forward to listening once again to some of these, and to capturing for prosperity some of those which I’ve never listened too at all. They came to me years ago in the cartons where my late Aunt stored them. She sent them to me just before she died about 20 years ago, knowing how I love old records. So, here we go! Let the fun begin! Oh yes, I guess I should include the now almost obligatory URL to the product, which just happens to be British, for a change. Maybe there is something we do best after all, apart, that is, from producing the best branded audio speakers and the best Bluetooth speaker systems in the world! :) Vinyl Studio can, of course, handle tapes and other old analogue material, (such as the audio from VHS and Betamax Video Cassettes). It seems to have the highest technology noise gates I am aware of of any product at all. I shall be taking this to the studio with me tomorrow. Anyway, here’s the website: <http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk <http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/>/> ======================================= My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist. Mobile/SMS: +44 (0)7907 823971 ————————————————————
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