On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dipping only slightly further offtopic, are they still pressing vinyl? > > Sales of vinyl LPs have actually gone up for the past 6 years, selling > 3.5 million new LPs last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan which is > the organization that tracks music sales/downloads in stores and > online. Meanwhile, sales of CDs have declined since their peak in > 2001. > >> I believe there are a number of tools for automatically splitting and >> transcoding audio input from a vinyl player. > > When I digitize vinyl or cassettes, I record the whole thing to a > single WAV file in Audacity. My turntable and cassette deck are hooked > up to my home stereo system, and the output from that is fed into my > line on on my PC. I try to adjust the input level manually to get as > loud as possible with no clipping, basically. I will run normalize on > the whole WAV afterward to see how close I was and listen to the > before and after to choose which one sounds better. I then use > wavbreaker to split it up into separate tracks. The process works well > for me.
Does your receiver have a 'tape' out? That's usually a decent line-level output, so you shouldn't need to do any volume tweaking on your inputs. (Assuming your turntable and cassette deck are sending line-level out.) What are you using for digitizing? Your motherboard's builtin, a PCI board, or an external device? I don't have any non-noisy internal audio devices available to me[1], so I tend to use external devices. [1] To be expected. The inside of a computer case is noisy both electrically and in EM. -- :wq
