Re: Vinyl to CD software suggestions
- From: Nil <rednoise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:03:35 +0000 (UTC)
On 30 Dec 2008, Phil T <va3ux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz:
What software does everyone suggest for transferring vinyl to CD ?
My brother used to use Roxio but I recall he had some complaints
about it - although it certainly did work. But that was several
years ago.
The software is the least of it. Just about any audio recording program
will do. Audacity is a free one that is suitable. I don't know about
Roxio, but Nero includes a recording program, and I think it also has a
few "cleanup" features, such as a de-clicker (but keep in mind that
those kinds of operations can really mess up the music - they take
practice and restraint to be effective.) And of course, you need a CD
burning program, such as Roxio or Nero.
The more important issue is how do you get the music onto the computer
in the first place. Do you already have a turntable? Do you know how to
hook it up to the computer?
It can all get more expensive, complex, and time- and labor-intensive,
depending on what kind of results you want to get out of it. If you
just want to play the record and burn it to CD as is, warts and all,
not broken up into tracks, that's pretty straightforward. If you want
to clean up the noise on the record and break it up into discreet
tracks, it starts to get more complicated.
I use my old Technics turntable, played through my old Harmon/Kardon
receiver's phono preamp into my computer's sound card. I record it with
Adobe Audition, and use its click-and-pop and noise-removal filters.
Other editing operations I might do include silencing the sound between
songs, EQ-ing and normalizing the music. Then I use an inexpensive
shareware program called CD Wave
(http://www.milosoftware.com/en/index.php?body=cdwave.php) to split the
music into tracks. Then I use Nero to burn it to CD-R.
If you didn't want to get that elaborate, you could just record to the
computer with, say, Audacity, and burn the result to a CD-R as is.
.
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