![]() It took me several years to develop my vinyl transcription hardware and methodology to the point where I was satisfied with the result. I've always believed that you get what you pay for, whether that involves spending money or investing time. You can often find album covers on the net, but back covers and inserts So if you have a 50 minute LP, it takes at least one hour to do the ripping and the tagging of each side, longer if you want to separate tracks into different files. The major problem with ripping vinyl is that everything is in real time or longer. This noise filter is customized to that album, no generic filter here. Speaking of filters, another cool trick is vinyl noise, if you have an album with really bad vinyl you can train the tool on a blank area (like between tracks) so it can learn the noise pattern, it will then make an inverse filter out of that so you can remove the vinyl noise. Izotope allows you to prescreen and listen to what was REMOVED, which should be a bunch of crap but occasionally you will hear a tone, now you know how and where to adjust your filter - and there are lots of different filters. When your ready to take it up a notch you'll find that clean up (pops, clicks, vinyl noise, etc) is MUCH better in Izotope RX (current version is RX4). The album lookup feature is pretty cool, it will give you all the tracks with an approximate location of the track splits so all you have to do is drag the handles around until the splits are where you want them. I rip straight to VinylStudio, I like the needle lift feature (though I did have to tweak it because it has a hard time with really good vinyl - it thinks the needle got lifted in between songs). No idea about the DSD, I can only dream of recording in DSD Looks pretty good ! At first I had it confused with PureVinyl, which is a no-go for me.ĭo you know if VS can import DSD files (Korg MR-1), edit, and save as PCM ? Now, I just record my LP's, and focus on buying albums that I don't already have. It started when I found myself thinking about buying CD's of albums that I already owned because I was too lazy to get up and find the LP. The investment in the recorder was certainly worth it. I do keep the original 1 bit/5.66 MHz files so that I don't have to worry about recording an album again. I've done about 800 now, all very high quality with 24/92 Flac as the final format. If you want to get into recording LP's, it's really dependent on how many albums you have and if you want to record them all. When mastering albums, that's all I'm doing and I can focus on that. Secondly, the task of recording and mastering is split. Firstly, I record without any hassle and using an extremely high quality ADC. You can then save the album with the folder and naming convention that you want, and you're done. If anything, I use the crackle filter only. You can then run a hiss/rumble/crackle filter to do a bit of cleanup. That being said, it's not hard to do, simply drag the track break and/or delete long gaps - such as when you don't get back to the LP to hit the pause button for a few seconds or so. ![]() ![]() The program will do track breaks that need to be tweaked, as the track times don't allow for accumulated slippage due to space between tracks and runout grooves. If not found, track information is entered by hand and the cover art needs to be done with a digital image of the jacket. The program will do an Internet lookup for the album art and track information. That file is then brought into a program, VinylStudio. ![]() I then use Korg Audiogate to convert all the files to 24/96 FLAC. Recording is easy, just hit record and pause when flipping over albums.Īll files are then transferred to my laptop. Recording at 1 bit/5.66 MHz takes about 1.2 GB for each LP. I modified it to have a 320 GB drive instead of the 80 GB it came with. It connects to a tape monitor loop of my preamp. I record to a Korg MR-2000S digital recorder. Will there ever be an easy way to do this? What is the current easiest way? I dont want to buy cds anymore I am happy buying digital copies but that isnt always possible, therefore I'd like to buy vinyl for their beauty, rip it, and then do most of my listening to that digital copy. ![]()
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