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In Reply to: RE: Some ADC advice please posted by Ryelands on July 22, 2014 at 04:13:17
There are services that will digitize and then remaster your LP before providing you with a digital copy or a CD.If you only have a few to do, it might be worth finding someone who can do that rather than investing in hardware and software you will only use once.
And, of, course, what kind of quality are you looking for? Something playable such as getting rid of scratches and crackle or more than that?
I'm not in the business but some who post here are and it's all about how long it will take.
I did a quick search online for "uk digital lp copy service". It looks like people are charging around from 8 to 10 pounds for a premium service, including cleaning the vinyl, etc.
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" It looks like people are charging around from 8 to 10 pounds for a premium service, including cleaning the vinyl, etc.This may be a fair price for an LP copy service, but I wouldn't call it "premium" since the price will not cover the cost of a competent person listening to the output. You will be stuck with doing the QC.
If you want clean up and/or "remaster" then doing a proper job requires a first rate system, proper editing tools / mastering equipment, and a talented engineer (not an apprentice). It's going to take at least half a day labor for an LP, more if there's lot's of clean up. (For example, removing ticks can not be done automatically without a risk of removing music as well. Removing a tick manually involves a few mouse clicks and perhaps a minute's worth of work. If an LP is badly scratched you can see how this can turn into hours of work...)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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I was thinking of some of your posts on that very topic when I was writing that reply.
Your point is well made, but I'm sure you would agree that a recording with Alvin and the Chipmunks singing (can you really call that singing?) Chipmunk Punk might not merit that much effort.
Based on past experience, I don't think it is advisable to comment on anyone's taste in music. :-)
My rule of thumb is that I will consider spending 1 hour working on cleaning up a recording if I think this will result in 1 hour's worth of listening pleasure. I work on cleaning up old recordings that are then listened by many people. If 100 people would listen once to a one hour recording then it might be worthwhile spending 100 hours cleaning it up. (I don't do this work as a business, if so then other considerations would apply.)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Removing a tick manually involves a few mouse clicks and perhaps a minute's worth of work. If an LP is badly scratched you can see how this can turn into hours of work...)
So true. You can spend hours cleaning up all the noise or just go for the 'big annoying ones' and leave the rest au naturel .
That's what I did with my digitizing efforts but my records weren't very bad to begin with.
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