Post #103760 by tikibars on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 3:26 PM

Thanks to Randy for some bandwidth...

These will all JUST fit on an 80-minute CD, or keep 'em as MP3s for mobile use...

http://www.goofspot.com/music/jt/index.html
http://www.goofspot.com/music/jt/index.html

As for digitizing vinyl: I have at my disposal, all of the pro adio gear that I use in my career of actually making records, so my methods are probably overkill.

I am coming out of my vintage 1960s Rek-O-Kut turntable via a modern Shure cartridge and into the turntable preamps built into a vintage Fisher tube amp.

From there I'm going into Apogee A/D converters and then in to a Mark of the Unicorn 2408 Audio I/O box. From there I use Digital Performer software by MOTU to capture the audio at 24 bit, and I clean it up (small amounts of EQ and limiting if nescessary) using MOTU and Waves plug-ins at 24 bit.

Since there are no good de-click plugz for Digital Performer, I dither down to 16 bit in Digital Performer, repen the trax in Peak, and use the de-click options in Peak. This is a REALLY time consuming process to do manually, and setting it on Auto can do more harm than good to the trax, so I just go in and remove the worst of the pops.

I burn to CDs with Toast, and MP3-ify only the trax I need to put on-line using the internal encoding in iTunes, always at 192Kbps.

Like I said, this is all probably overkill, but since I already have all this equipment, I might as well use it!

Also, since the source material is crappy old crackly, dusty, well-abused records from thrift stores, all of this hi-tech stuff isn't doing much to help - they still sound like ass! The lower-tech methods used by some of the other cats here is probably just as good for what we're trying to achieve.

...but some would say the the lo-fi sound is part of the charm...