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RE: Digitizing albums

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In Reply to: RE: Digitizing albums posted by LtMandella on February 14, 2021 at 07:53:23

The Tascam recorder I use has the ability to add a lot of gain to the signal but I'd still use a phono preamp. I don't try to boost the signal too much during recording and don't mess around with changing gain for each LP to get max recording signal. I first experimented with several "hot" records to find where it got into the clipping zone and backed off just enough to keep it in the warning zone. I know that all my other LPs will be well below the clipping point. Set it and forget it since you can easily boost (normalize) the amplitude in Audacity.

As for the phono preamp, my perspective is that a good phono stage has as good an RIAA equalization function as any software package. The only real advantage to the software approach in my opinion is if you've got some old discs that didn't use the conventional RIAA curves. Or if you want to customize the sound like a tone control. Just more post-processing to deal with if you ask me.

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