Keith, I can't disagree with your clarification. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Gillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital
> Gary quips: > I am Curious Keith, what kind of noise reduction systems are you familiar > with > when it comes to recording on tape. DBX was one of the best noise reductions > I > have ever used for recording. ARNS was another good type of noise reduction. > you > couldn't beat DBX. I don't know how old you are, but in the seventies, > everyone > coveted DBX. > > What's your Point? I'm well aware of Dolby and it's characteristics! Noise > reduction right? I think you missed my point here so let mme try to define > it so you will understand my comment as it pertains to the thread. Here's > what I wrote: > >> Erroneous! >> >> You will always suffer from sound quality degradation every time you >> duplicate an analog source file. > > What this means is that if you take the original analog source, in this case > LP's as per the subject line, and record it on to another analog source, as > you suggested, cassette tapes, then transfer it to your PC to Wav and/or > then MP3, you will loose more sound quality then if you did the same > excluding the cassette tape step and just recorded the LP directly to a > digital format. > > I hope this clarify's things for you Gary...Keith > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary G Schindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:52 AM > Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital > > > I am Curious Keith, what kind of noise reduction systems are you familiar > with > when it comes to recording on tape. DBX was one of the best noise reductions > I > have ever used for recording. ARNS was another good type of noise reduction. > you > couldn't beat DBX. I don't know how old you are, but in the seventies, > everyone > coveted DBX. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith Gillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:30 AM > Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital > > >> Hi you wrote: >> I guess you have never heard good tape. good high bios or chrome tapes >> sound >> equal to the cd. >> >> Erroneous! >> >> You will always suffer from sound quality degradation every time you >> duplicate an analog source file...Keith >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Don Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:51 PM >> Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital >> >> >> I guess you have never heard good tape. good high bios or chrome tapes >> sound >> equal to the cd. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:23 AM >> Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital >> >> >> But, tape sounds horrible and has relatively poor frequency response, at >> least as far as music goes. Talking cassette tape, btw. Of course >> personally recorded, out of print, or tapes of books are a different >> story. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Keith Gillard >> To: PC audio discussion list. >> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:32 PM >> Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital >> >> >> Hi Don you wrote: >> if you don't already have a preamp I would buy a mixer instead. It will >> have >> turntable preamps in it plus you can do so much more with it. For example >> you could record your tapes over to digital as well. >> >> sounds good. What kind of mixer do you have and how easy or blind >> friendly >> is it? >> >> Thanks...Keith >> ? I have the >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Don Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:56 PM >> Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital >> >> >> if you don't already have a preamp I would buy a mixer instead. It will >> have >> turntable preamps in it plus you can do so much more with it. For example >> you could record your tapes over to digital as well. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gary G Schindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:22 AM >> Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital >> >> >> Hello Keith, go to http://www.tracertek.com and you will find a couple of >> really >> nice preamps you can use for hooking up the turntable to the computer. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Keith Gillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:14 AM >> Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital >> >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > Good info, >> > >> > Can you suggest a good little pre-amp that would work well with my JVC >> > turn >> > table? >> > >> > BTW: How is Groove Mechanic for accessibility? >> > >> > Cheers...Keith >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "John J. Jacques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:42 AM >> > Subject: Re: Devices for Recording LP's and 45's to Digital >> > >> > >> > Hi all, the easiest way to do this, is if you have a turntable that you >> > can set up close to your computer! You can either get an inexpensive >> > pre-amp that will boost the low level of a magnetic phono cartridge and >> > equalize it correctly and feed the output of that pre-amp to the line >> > input of your sound card! Then, all you need is a sound editing >> program, >> > such as Gold Wave, or Groove Mechanic wich is designed for recording >> > vinyl! An alternative solution, if there is no way to get a turntable >> in >> > the same area as the PC, is if you already have a fairly good quality >> > stereo system, with a turntable and a cassette deck, you can first >> record >> > the vinyl LP's on to a good quality cassette and then, plug a cassette >> > deck into your PC's sound card and record that way! Since I have my >> > stereo system set up right here along with my computers, I just feed my >> > main pc's second sound card into the tape monitor loop of my reciever, >> so >> > I can record anything that I wish onto the hard drive! >> > >> > HTH: >> > J. 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