On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.)
When I am adjusting the level I mean I'm adjusting the input volume in Audacity/ALSA (since not every record/tape/radio station comes in at the same volume). The receiver does indeed have a line-out that does not change regardless of how I adjust the settings on the receiver itself (with the exception of the hard buttons for Dolby/Chrome tapes). > 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. I'm using the built-in ports on the rear panel which are noiseless as far as I can tell. Front panel is horrible, though. BZZ BZZZ EEEE BZZZ BZZ EE EEEE BZZZZ. :)
