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In Reply to: Vinyl Transfer to PC posted by mark.korda@myfairpoint.net on May 26, 2015 at 11:49:36:
I mean why do you want to record LPs to digital? Really think about what you want out of this because it effects what you will need and what you will need to learn.I record to digital and I can tell you that it can be a royal PITA. If you want to record each LP and just play back your LPs as if they are on your turntable then you have a relatively easy job. If you want to break each side up into individual tracks and potentially record them to CD and/or DVD-A then it will be more difficult.
Like all things, recording to digital can be cheap and easy or expensive and very complicated. The easiest way to record to digital is to get yourself a standalone CDR recorder (if you can find one anymore) and plug it into your rig like its a cassette deck or RTR deck.
The standalone CDR recorder is the easiest way to record LPs to digital but you are restricted. The standalone recorder can do a very good job of making Audio CDRs but that's about it. Once you have the CDR your are done.
Most of them work like a tape recorder. You place the recordable media in the recorder, put the recorder in recording/pause mode, cue up the LP and start the recorder. Whatever is on the turntable will be recorded to the CDR. Along the way the CDR recorder will have a way to enter track markers via the remote control, so your job would be to sit and listen to the LP and hit a button on the remote when the LP reaches a space between tracks.
Once the CDR is done recording you have to finalize the CDR so it can be played on regular CD players but you are essentially done at that point.
There are also hybrid boxes, where you record to a hard drive in the recorder and then burn that recording to the CDR whenever you wish. Each of these has different capabilities and you have to ask what kind of editing and advanced features are built into the recorder.
There are also DSD recorders that record whatever is on the line input to DSD onto internal storage. Some of these are made by Korg and reportedly are very high quality recorders but again you are limited to whatever is built into the DSD recorder.
The most flexible way to record to digital is to purchase an A2D converter and record the output of the A2D converter to files on a computer. Once you have those files you can edit them, playback the files in the format they are recorded in or convert the files to alternate file formats.
There is little limit to what you can do with computer based recordings. The limit is imposed by the software you own and the format that the original file is in. The original recording should be made at the highest resolution that your A2D converter supports so you can then use that original file to create anything you pretty much want.
Again this is limited by your computer, the software you have and your knowledge of how all of this works. There are some limitations imposed by incompatible formats but if you purchase a good quality A2D converter and have decent quality recording software you will be able to do most things you can think of.
The down side with computer based recording is that it takes lots of storage space to store all of these very large digital audio files and it takes time to process the files into what you want to create.
The Readers Digest answer is you can go cheap and simple. That can give you decent results. Or you can go more expensive and more complicated like computer based recording. This solution will give high quality and highly flexible results but it will not be simple.
As far as I know you can't have both.
Ed
Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof
Edits: 05/27/15
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- What are you trying to do? - EdAInWestOC 12:57:22 05/27/15 (1)
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