Post #106123 by Swanky on Tue, Aug 3, 2004 10:16 PM

I have some of what are supposed to be good plug-ins for cleaning up vinyl sound and they all stink. They just make things muddy. I clean the record as well as possible and go in and hand edit the big pops.

The best thing for quality is getting the recording level right. My software will "Normalize" the recording and boost a quiet recording, but you quickly realize that stinks. You are essentially losing the dynamic quality of the recording if yourecord too quiet and "Normailize" or boost the volume. The ideal is for the quiet to be quiet and th eloud to be at peak 0db. That's the good sound. And often the hardest to acheive with your wires, computer, equipment and so on.

There is a very reasonable sound card I looked at that acually had a front panel for the computer with an input and level control on the front. Would be a good investment to be able to control that stuff with a knob right there!