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In Reply to: Re: Gotta get through a job before I can spin for myself... posted by docw on January 14, 2006 at 12:20:10:
...I use my Thorens TD-125MkII w/ a Thorens TP-16 arm and Shure M97xE cartridge through either a Dynaco Pas or a Hafler DH-101 preamp's tape outs to my PC's M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 soundcard. I use an old copy of Cool Edit or Roxio's sound editor to mark and edit the tracks and burn with Roxio's easy CD creator.This rig works well, is very flexible and sounds indistinguishable to the source record to me.
As far as the records I have to transcribe, so far I have liked Noel Paul Stookey live a Carnegie Hall, the record it titled "One Night Stand". This record has it all. Mr Stookey seems like he was blessed with a bit of talent (kinda "folky") and the recording is first rate, very nice.
The dreck so far has been a record by Randy Stonehill titled "The Sky is Falling". This is terrible, Rock-N-Roll wannabe, wank-O-rama.
I was ok with Daneil Amos's "Shotgun Angel", not great but not grating either.
I still have to do Mylon LeFevre & Broken Heart "Sheep in wolves clothing" and Danny Taylor "live". The cover of Mylon LeFevre makes it look like it's gonna be along the lines of the Randy Stonehill record tho... I think I'll save that for last.
I actually have a harder time transcribing '80s hair bands... That crap is enough to make you go deaf with its terrible production and lame sound.
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Al G
Born to Tinker!
Follow Ups:
and ya don't hafta agree with me, mah man Al, but Randy Stonehill does indeed have a fair amount of talent and puts it to good use here and on other albums. He was one of the early progenitors of the genre of Christian rock, along with Larry Norman, Phil Keaggy, and Mark Heard. He mines a deeply evocative vein and is prone to a brutally humorous bent. The guy thrives on parodies of self and rock in general, which is anathema to most Christian artists. His songs often reflect that vivid self-parody, so I understand from whence the wank-O-rama remark stems.He's not everyone's cup-a-tea, so it's okay not ta like him. I just listened to his Welcome to Paradise, an elpee that I picked up a few days ago.
On a related note, he performed a coupla times at my former church, the one we affectionately called "The Dirty Little Church in the Park." Oddly enough, and quite by accident, about three years ago, I found myself sitting across a table from him and his friend/producer at a David Wilcox concert, another performer who does not often get the respect he deserves (or gets it in small audience doses).
Below is a link to another person's opinion:
axolotl
The whole genre is just not my cup of tea and yes, I was pretty hard on the Stonehill record.
and the tone/tenor. I don't know re how to do the process yet, and never had a burner.I am a Christian who loves to study history and love Stonehill's own testimony on FirstLove video. As the other poster, he parodies himself and admits his weaknesses (and sin), which is hopefully our humble testimony to the world. And all can decide for themselves.
What I wanted is your perspective and I got it--much thanks for your advice. I also have an old PAS and had it repaired and crucial caps replaced. It sounds great. And an old Hafler 101 is living in storage at my brother's place, ready to do battle soon in his kid's room. And I am still enjoying my PAS. I have an old TT which can do this work, and a new laptop with burner. But you folks always mention sound cards.
What hookup wire & setup? Do you just go from the pre amp out to something on the Dell 6000? I have a "Sonic" burner, and also it appears to have the new Windows Media Player 10 and something called Dell Studio. Next step, guys?
Use a patch cord from the tape outs of the preamp to the line in jack on the PC, a simple Male RCA pair to Stereo male 3.5mm cord works for most computers. Easily found at your local Radio Shack (expensive) or electronic parts supplier (much cheaper/better quality).My M-Audio soundcard has female RCA jacks for the line input so I can use any standard patch cord terminated with male RCA plugs.
If the built in soundcard in your laptop doesn't deliver the quality you are looking for there are stand alone USB based options out there that are quite nice.
I have never tried/used Windows media player to record anything to my hard drive, I don't even know if it works that way.
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Al G
Born to Tinker!
putting up with my ignorance. I agree that RadioShack is high, and get my stuff on line usually from partsexpress.com or something like that.
Ya didn't offend me. I was merely offering a different perspective.
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