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Title: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 10:50:18 AM
Anybody done this?

I’ve just set-up my old record deck, configured an amp and copied to the PC using a couple of cheap utilities. Works remarkably well actually…  cloud9:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Bar Wench on May 07, 2008, 10:52:37 AM
 ::)
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 10:55:24 AM
::)
And what exactly are you doing in here?  shrugs:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Bar Wench on May 07, 2008, 10:55:48 AM
Following you!  eyes:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 10:56:44 AM
Following you!  eyes:
scared2:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Bar Wench on May 07, 2008, 10:58:06 AM
 eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 11:00:22 AM
eveilgrin:
Shut the door then... I'll show you my, um equipment...  eyes:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Snoopy on May 07, 2008, 11:16:58 AM
Snoopy discreetly withdraws  whistle:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 11:19:27 AM
Snoopy discreetly withdraws  whistle:
Good boy...  ;)
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 07, 2008, 11:32:19 AM
eveilgrin:
Shut the door then... I'll show you my, um equipment...  eyes:
You can use all you old pick-up lines as well.

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Sorry  redface:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 11:33:31 AM
eveilgrin:
Shut the door then... I'll show you my, um equipment...  eyes:
You can use all you old pick-up lines as well.

 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001

Sorry  redface:
drumroll:

Snap crackle and pop - it's like a bowl of rice crispies here...  cloud9:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Just One More on May 07, 2008, 01:13:12 PM
Anybody done this?

I’ve just set-up my old record deck, configured an amp and copied to the PC using a couple of cheap utilities. Works remarkably well actually…  cloud9:

I did a few old LP's last year. IIRC, I used a program called "Audacity", some of ther recordings came out quite well, but when I tried to be clever taking out some of the "crackle" it didn't work to well
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 01:16:51 PM
I've just recorded half an hour of a track skipping...  Banghead
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Just One More on May 07, 2008, 01:18:57 PM
I've just recorded half an hour of a track skipping...  Banghead

It'll be number one by the end of the month.
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Bar Wench on May 07, 2008, 01:21:28 PM
 point:

Serves you right!

You should be writting your speech!
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Snoopy on May 07, 2008, 01:22:17 PM
point:

Serves you right!

You should be writting your speech!

He might even try writing it.  lol:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 01:29:18 PM
Loadsatime...  whistle:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Bar Wench on May 07, 2008, 01:37:49 PM
point:

Serves you right!

You should be writting your speech!

He might even try writing it.  lol:

Feck off!
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 01:42:23 PM
point:

Serves you right!

You should be writting your speech!

He might even try writing it.  lol:

Feck off!
point:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Snoopy on May 07, 2008, 01:46:37 PM
point:

Serves you right!

You should be writting your speech!

He might even try writing it.  lol:

Feck off!

Yes M'Lady ......... errrrrr..... any particular direction?
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Bar Wench on May 07, 2008, 01:48:12 PM
point:

Serves you right!

You should be writting your speech!

He might even try writing it.  lol:

Feck off!

Yes M'Lady ......... errrrrr..... any particular direction?

The short pier over there!
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Snoopy on May 07, 2008, 01:52:41 PM

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Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 07, 2008, 01:54:17 PM
The short pier
rubschin:

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Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 01:54:56 PM
The short pier
rubschin:

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Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Bar Wench on May 07, 2008, 01:55:12 PM
 ::)
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: tel on May 07, 2008, 02:50:38 PM
Mrs Tel bought me a Creative box which has to be linked to an amp. Doesn't do stereo though.
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Snoopy on May 07, 2008, 02:56:10 PM
She may have interfered with the wires ~ check carefully. scared2:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 03:53:14 PM
For the technically minded…

I’m using a Systemdek IIX with a Linn Basik Plus arm.

I’m feeding the phono output to a Meridian 562V which I am using as a preamplifier. The Meridian allows me to programmatically change the gain of the analogue input to the A/D converter and the output from the DAC (all the internal processing is handled digitally).

I’m then taking the output from the DAC to a Creative Soundblaster Live! 24-bit card in the PC. Theoretically, I could take the digital output from the 562V directly to the SPDIF on the SB but I don’t have the right cable.

Then I am using LP Recorder ( http://www.cfbsoftware.com/default.aspx  ) to capture the WAV file and LP Ripper to separate the tracks and convert to MP3 files.

 cloud9:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Snoopy on May 07, 2008, 03:55:15 PM
 rubschin: I accept that this is a stupid question but wouldn't it be easier just to play your old vinyls on a record player, your old cassettes on a cassette player and your CDs using a CD player like normal people?
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 04:05:36 PM
rubschin: I accept that this is a stupid question but wouldn't it be easier just to play your old vinyls on a record player, your old cassettes on a cassette player and your CDs using a CD player like normal people?
doh:

No Snoopy...  noooo:

My multi-room music system only feeds on MP3 files and most certainly not on a record player or cassettes....
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Snoopy on May 07, 2008, 04:07:19 PM
Oh  tunble:
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 07, 2008, 04:17:22 PM
. . .a Creative box . . .

 happy001
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Pastis on May 07, 2008, 05:33:18 PM
Oh  tunble:

I got lost shortly after the words technically minded.... However, I do have something akin to a multi room music system; it's called a volume knob  ;)
Title: Re: Converting your old LP’s to MP3 files
Post by: Barman on May 07, 2008, 06:23:58 PM
Oh  tunble:

I got lost shortly after the words technically minded.... However, I do have something akin to a multi room music system; it's called a volume knob  ;)
;D