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RE: Thanks for your input

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In Reply to: RE: Thanks for your input posted by Skip Pack on October 14, 2024 at 08:44:55

I did most of my vinyl digitizing at 24/96 which is the max supported by the HRT Linestreamer + ADC.
I used Audacity on the Mac to capture one complete LP side and then the other side. I then used Audacity to break each side into tracks and manually input metadata for each track.
Most of my records were pretty clean but some had a loud pop or two. I would painstakingly "zoom in" on those peaks and manually suppress them with Audacity. I would leave the 'quieter' noise alone as it wasn't worth chasing down every little bit of it.
Man, that was tedious !!
I'm not familiar with Vinyl Studio but I suspect it offered some automation to make life easier than using Audacity.
What DSP did you apply and was it applied to the music file or applied real-time during playback?

Edits: 10/23/24

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RE: Thanks for your input - Skip Pack 09:47:43 10/24/24 (1)
Your workflow is the same as mine back when I could only capture 16/44.1 with the Hagerman Ripper (a nice device). When I got a more capable device (the Steinberg UR22mkII) that does 192/24, I went to Vinyl Studio.

VS has a really nice workflow for ripping and processing. The high resolution with the absolute minimal setting for tick and pop removal give a clean output with no sound quality drop (to my old ears). It's a cheap program, well maintained with responsive support. Audacity is a nifty toolbox but I seem to need reeducation every time I go to use it. The one thing I do use Audacity for more frequently is confirming what sounds like mild clipping and oversampling induced clipping.

Skip
- RE: Thanks for your input - AbeCollins 07:50:45 10/25/24 (0)
  Thanks.
  
  I remember someone here mentioning Vinyl Studio way back when. I never tried it but probably should have. Audacity wasn't difficult for me to use but there wasn't much joy in the all manual workflow.
  
  My PS Audio GCPH phono preamp had a variable output level control so I was able to use that to drive the HRT Linestreamer + ADC directly. The phono level control along with the Audacity level control and VU meters helped to establish a sufficiently strong signal so the resulting file didn't sound anemic or over driven. I would keep the VU meters way into the green with the very occasional slight clip into the red. I used headphones on the computer to monitor in real time.
  
  It was fun until it became too much work!

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