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In Reply to: RE: HRT Linestreamer+ $300 USD posted by AbeCollins on December 20, 2015 at 07:17:23
I'm getting very good results with the LineStreamer+. You do need a way to control volume between phono preamp and the LineStreamer+. I'm using an Alps pot that a local dealer sold me. I don't know the exact specs of the pot, but I usually am recording with it about 80-90% of full volume. I did do some testing and found it to be transparent during the short time I did some comparisons. Certainly in line with my phono preamp and the A-D.
Check out Vinyl Studio for a great program for recording and editing. A couple of days ago, I recorded Blodwyn Pig's "Ahead Rings Out", an album I bought in 1969. The results are quite impressive. Vinyl Studio has a learning curve, but it is not hard to use. I've been recording everything in 24/96, and using JRiver to burn some CDs from vinyl.
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I haven't used my HRT Linestreamer+ in a while now but when I did, I used the PS Audio GCPH phono which has adjustable Gain so I didn't need to go thru the linestage or use a POT. Good to know that your ALPS POT is a good solution too.
I haven't used Vinyl Studio, just the free Audacity software. I imagine Vinyl Studio might make the job easier once you get beyond the learning curve you mentioned.
One thing I think is essential to recording LPs, well not essential, but if you can fit one on your turntable, it makes life so much easier. Get a Q Up for your tonearm. I bypass my system when transferring vinyl. I go out from the phono preamp to the Alps pot, into the Linestreamer+ and right into the laptop. I mostly monitor by watching the meters. With the Q Up you don't have to be right there.
As to Vinyl Studio, I run the default de-clicker, seldom do I have to manually remove a pop/click, but when I do it sounds seamless.
Use the Discogs search function for cover art, and track breaks. It helps to use a separate tablet or something to go to Discogs and find the right release. It can be done after getting to the title by Google search of Artist, title, Discogs. Then find the right one by the label numbers/letters.
You have to adjust the track breaks, most LPs it takes only a few minutes. Remove the lead in and lead out pops and noise. Boom, you are ready to save.
Looks a bit daunting at first, but then it is really quite easy to use.
I have had so much fun listening to downloaded LPs. When you play vinyl you are always changing sides. I can program in a bunch of LPS in JRiver and just relax.
I finished the first crate I was loaned and I am now transferring LPs from my own collection. I did the two Blodwyn Pig albums. Blodwyn Pig's "Ahead Rings Out" is the third album I bought when I got my first stereo, back in 1969. That album was played on a BSR mini-changer, a Garrad 65, a Dual 1219, a Thorens TD125 with a Shure SME 3009 Type II Improved arm, and now on my Sota. Not a scratch or a finger print, sound good. The glue on the seams of the cover are coming loose, but it is 46 years old.
I waited until this year to get into PC audio, and it has been a lot of fun. I'm reconnecting with LPs I haven't listened to in years.
Wow! You're much more dedicated to ripping vinyl than I.Using Audacity, I would rip one complete album side, then the other. I would take these two huge files then break them up into tracks. I would then touch up each track manually (again with Audacity) removing or softening any major clicks or pops. The metadata was then inserted manually for each track using Audacity. The process was very labor intensive with no 'automation'.
I'm not set up for it anymore but I have something to look forward too again when the TT and LPs are out of storage.
Edits: 12/22/15
Abe, your way sounds way more time consuming than using Vinyl Studio.
Yes, first you rip the LP into two files, one per side. But after that you can use their software.
It also sounds like you take more care in removing all the clicks and pops.
The nice thing is that other than removing the lead in and out areas, which is permanent, all other info and editing goes in to a separate file. The original data is not touched.
Check out their web pages, they explain it better than I can.
It also sounds like you take more care in removing all the clicks and pops.
I did initially but that was way too time consuming. I later decided to fade in the lead in and fade out the lead out, with a little clean up. Unless the track had major pops I would leave it alone so any slight imperfections were heard but no worse than listening to the vinyl directly.
I'll have to try Vinyl Studio someday. Thanks.
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"I'll have to try Vinyl Studio someday. Thanks. "
Personally, I think VS is fantastic - have been using it for about a year now and am very impressed with it's capabilities and how it works.
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