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In Reply to: Out of curiosity posted by AbeCollins on December 17, 2024 at 07:04:56:
It is a labor of love, and I save it for special archival situations like the one we've been discussing. I use an outdated program called Pure Vinyl Recorder b/c I have never found anything better. It does a decent job of track splitting on the first pass but isn't infallible so you have to backcheck. I have also used Audacity but pV is far better. It also contains an excellent baked-in player, Pure Music, that builds on the iTunes/Music engine and sounds terrific. I don't use pM anymore now that I am in the Roon/Qobuz ecosystem, but the SQ is superb.
I have an older Edirol ADC that will deliver 24/96 via USB. I like it b/c it has a dedicated power supply and doesn't rely on USB bus power. It stays connected to the line output of my integrated amp. I use a 2012 Mac Mini to do the recording, and that is about all it does anymore. It used to be my Roon server and endpoint but I've moved past that.
My goal was to replicate the way we used to do it back in the day, with a cassette recorder connected to the preamp. Whenever I play an LP, if I feel like digitizing it, it's fairly easy and convenient. It just takes a couple of quick settings and some best-guess gain adjustment sampling, and off you go - just like a C-90. Where it can get tedious is if you get into post-production editing. pV has a series of built-in noise reduction and pop and click filters, but I keep them at a very low tolerance for fear of losing data. You can manually edit if something is really blatant, and it is much simpler than Audacity.
Pure Vinyl includes a tagging/artwork feature that is quite sophisticated. The recommended workflow is to ID the album before starting the recording, using the catalog number or a search engine. It uses track lengths to help interpolate track splitting and pre-populates titles. It mostly happens automagically but there are occasional flaws and misses. Similar to the recording process, you can get as tedious and anal as you choose to with tagging (which isn't limited to LP ripping). I use MusicBrainz Picard for corrections.
To my ears, the SQ of the digital recordings I produce is as good as or better than anything I can stream. That makes it worth the effort.
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
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Follow Ups
- Tedious is the word - tlea 08:28:26 12/17/24 (3)
- The only good thing about it is that you only need to do it once for each album... - John Elison 15:20:40 12/20/24 (1)
- RE: The only good thing about it is that you only need to do it once for each album... - AbeCollins 17:55:36 12/20/24 (0)
- RE: Tedious is the word - AbeCollins 11:12:42 12/17/24 (0)
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