[Q] Music fans.......... need some help.

[Aquaman]

Being a child of the 70's & 80's, I was wondering if there is a way to record music from vinyl records to the computer to make a CD back up??? Any advice would be greatly appreicated.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Lore]

Yep, there is. In fact, I just helped a professor do this a few weeks ago.

First of all, you need the source - the LP player. Make sure there's a way you can input the sound into your sound card's line in. You need a program that will record the audio stream (not Windows Sound Recorder, that's limited to only 60 seconds and is a very weak program). Make sure you record at 44.1khz and 16 bit.

After recording the sound, you probably want to clean up the recording using something like Dart Pro. (Get the demo)

If you recorded it as one large WAV, you'll want to split up the WAV into individual tracks. Get the program called CDWAV for that.

Then burn in your regular CD mastering software!

 

[Aquaman]

Thanks Lore.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[slpaulson]

That is about what I did to put somebody's tapes on cd. I used cool edit to record and split up the tracks.

 

[PowerJoe]

I did that too - Quality leaves something to be desired, but that's mostly the LP's fault (old, scratchy records). I use CoolEdit Pro to clean up the scratches and cut it into separate tracks.

-PJ

 

[CygnusX1]

Hello,

Be aware that some record players don't put out line level. You will either need a converter or you can go into the Phono input of a receiver and out the record output to your computer. I'm guessing newer record players will put out proper level. If the recording sounds distorted, I would guess this level mismatch would be the culprit.

Hope that helps,

Mark.