Vinyl to digital question
Vinyl to digital question
I've recently bought a new laptop and want to transfer some of my old vinyl and cassettes to digital.Has anyone done this and how did you do it?
Wow - that's a bit hostile, Alex? 
Barrett, I think I remember Dave talking on the board a while back about having transferred a lot of his vinyl to digital. Perhaps you'll find him more helpful, and not quite so unfriendly as the above link.
Barrett, I think I remember Dave talking on the board a while back about having transferred a lot of his vinyl to digital. Perhaps you'll find him more helpful, and not quite so unfriendly as the above link.
Ice, you were the one most tender with the rivers.
You, the roof of the waves, layer after layer after layer ...
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From here it looks a bit hostile,Alex,hard on the heels of your response to someone's plea to make the board skin more legible."justgoogleit" would have sufficed.
Anyway,yes I've done heaps of vinyl-digital transfers.If you've got Windows there's a lot of available software-I would search something like Versiontracker using 'vinyl' as a search term,and you can pick and choose.
For Mac-which I know about- there's a thing called CD Spindoctor which comes bundled with Toast (which costs) which will do the job with LPs,although I find it buggy and subject to crashing a lot.
Much better-and maybe available for Windoze-is The Analogue Ripper,or TAR,which lets you do things like record your 33s at 45 rpm,(and then converts the speed back again-saves time),automatically separate tracks,and so on.It doesn't offer any kind of filter system to clean up your LPs,alas.For that you need some more software and I haven't come acroos anything better than Amadeus-which is pricey and quite hi-tech with the physics.
What you also need is a way of transferring to the computer.I record LPs etc onto a minidisc and then plug that straight into the Mac ready to go through TAR,but that's quite time-consuming.You can now buy record players which will plug into the computer for just such a job,but that's more expense,and I've no idea if they're any good.If you've got some kind of preamp which has a connection to go straight into your computer,you're all set up.
So it's all a bit time-consuming,but worth it in the end.I've gradually reduced my vinyl collection from c.2000 LPs to about 500,by transferring them and selling the vinyl on eBay-so you can make some expense back if you're lucky.
Anyway,yes I've done heaps of vinyl-digital transfers.If you've got Windows there's a lot of available software-I would search something like Versiontracker using 'vinyl' as a search term,and you can pick and choose.
For Mac-which I know about- there's a thing called CD Spindoctor which comes bundled with Toast (which costs) which will do the job with LPs,although I find it buggy and subject to crashing a lot.
Much better-and maybe available for Windoze-is The Analogue Ripper,or TAR,which lets you do things like record your 33s at 45 rpm,(and then converts the speed back again-saves time),automatically separate tracks,and so on.It doesn't offer any kind of filter system to clean up your LPs,alas.For that you need some more software and I haven't come acroos anything better than Amadeus-which is pricey and quite hi-tech with the physics.
What you also need is a way of transferring to the computer.I record LPs etc onto a minidisc and then plug that straight into the Mac ready to go through TAR,but that's quite time-consuming.You can now buy record players which will plug into the computer for just such a job,but that's more expense,and I've no idea if they're any good.If you've got some kind of preamp which has a connection to go straight into your computer,you're all set up.
So it's all a bit time-consuming,but worth it in the end.I've gradually reduced my vinyl collection from c.2000 LPs to about 500,by transferring them and selling the vinyl on eBay-so you can make some expense back if you're lucky.
Oh - OK hon, many apologies. I've had my sense of humour misconstrued to disastrous effect on this board several times, so I feel ya.alx5962 wrote:hostile ?
My sick sense of humour maybe
Ice, you were the one most tender with the rivers.
You, the roof of the waves, layer after layer after layer ...
You, the roof of the waves, layer after layer after layer ...
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