vinyl to mp3
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- foreign0
At least not with home-based studios for the most part. However, there are a few tricks you can use in Sound Forge, etc. to wave-hammer, bring up the levels, noise-reduction, etc. your waves.
mpfree
(Dec 18 06, 14:52)yeah. i think for general listening, and especially if you don't have any experience with audio editing, you should stay away from trying to do too much (especially compression - vinyl records are already mastered). as long as it's loud enough (normalise after recording), and you use some audio restoration (low settings, otherwise you end up destroying the recording) it's usually good enough.
- mpfree0
Stanton Turntables do it seamlessly enough
- mpfree0
Digital Output [S/PDIF] Plug straight into CD-R or computer sound card
http://www.stantondj.com/v2/prod…
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- neue75_bold0
I've got a nifty 35 step process that I'd never recommend...
- johndiggity0
does that come bundled with software? this is for my father, so i want it to be pretty straightforward, and i don't want to have to help at all. he's got too many records.
- mpfree0
granted you will need to use some sort of capture software to record that output / input.
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/lprec…
or Sound Forge, etc.
however, you might need to convert from .wav to .mp3
- johndiggity0
thanks for the recommendation, but i don't want to be involved at all (i know, so enthusiastic). is there a one box solution out there?
- lvl_130
i use final scratch. works great both ways: vinyl> mp3 mp3>vinyl
- neue75_bold0
you press your own vinyl?
- neue75_bold0
it's still remarkable that your father has a desire to even do this... my dad just learnt what the '#' symbol was called...
- mpfree0
there is johndiggity, but your dad is going to have to at least learn the basics of audio.
- blackspade0
"I've got a nifty 35 step process that I'd never recommend...
neue75_bold
(Dec 18 06, 11:26)"hahahaha i know what thats like, i seem to have a few 35 step process's
as long as u get there in the end!!
- neue75_bold0
I'm actually going over to a friends [who own's a PC] tomorrow so I can for the first time in like 13-15 months, take off some shit from my MD recorder... fuck Sony.. fuck them and their proprietary encoding...
- mpfree0
personally, I line in my Stanton and record via Sound Forge, edit the waveform via PC and export as .mp3.
If I weren't so lazy, I'd create PodCasts for FMT.
- johndiggity0
sounds good. any one have experience with either of these, or can recommend one over the other?
http://www.amazon.com/Ion-iTTUSB…
- HelixDnB0
http://www.hammacher.com/publish…
haven't tried this personally but looks interesting none-the-less. I just hook my Tech1210's up to my mixer to my line-in to soundforge. Granted I don't do it often but on Test Presses and whatnot I do as I want the MP3 backup as well to fool around with in Traktor.
- cadoma20
more gadget for analog to wav via USB
- mpfree0
I do that with Reason, HelixDnB.
Line in my Stanton, record with Sound Forge, slice out the sample I want. Put it into ReCycle! import into Reason and sequence away. Export out a track and import into Ableton Live!
weeeeeeeeeeeee