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Thanks Jay and Captain T. The turntable I have at the moment is belt driven with fully automatic gears for play and stop. It has a built in pre-amp for straight line-in recording. Not sure if the pre-amp would be anything to rave about, quality wise or the stylus. At the moment I have the deck runnin in to the Yami 03D on a Digi002 system, so the Yamaha is the A/D. I think I'll have to upgrade to something if I wanna give the transfer biz a bit more attention.
I don't know if the next comments belong in this thread :-X but, would many people still bother paying big bucks for Vinyl - CD transfers or just download them off itunes? I'm aware of the quality issue, just wondering if any of you have had a decreased demand for the transfers lately?
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Posted 07 September 2007 - 06:30 PM
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I don't know if the next comments belong in this thread :-X but, would many people still bother paying big bucks for Vinyl - CD transfers or just download them off itunes? I'm aware of the quality issue, just wondering if any of you have had a decreased demand for the transfers lately?
Not being a DJ I can't speak for people our age, but if there's a way to let older folk know about the service maybe? A lot of retirees with vinyl who also have PC's and ipods now. Could do them a service by transferring their old records.
My dad's just been muddling through it himself with Audacity and a cheap player, but the sound quality is pretty poor. Are you offering restoration and audio clean up as well? Some restoration software would go a long way to drumming up business.
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Posted 07 September 2007 - 10:15 PM
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a mate of mine does quite a lot of transfers, even to the point of scanning the orig album cover and printing it as a jacket, and onto the actual cd.
He's been doin it for years, most clients are over 40 and just want to hear their old tunes again!
He's been doin it for years, most clients are over 40 and just want to hear their old tunes again!
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My dad's just been muddling through it himself with Audacity and a cheap player, but the sound quality is pretty poor. Are you offering restoration and audio clean up as well? Some restoration software would go a long way to drumming up business.
I've tried Waves' x-click plug-in with maginal results
. However I have just downloaded a shareware program called ClickRepair www.kagi.com/clickrepair - http://wwwmaths.anu..../~briand/sound/ it seems to do really well. It also depends on the condition of the record. what does everyone use to clean their records? Anti-static stuff? Distilled water? spit & polish? 
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Yo Sam i rekon that's a killer idea you've come up with there mate, wish i hada thought of it, i'd love nothin more than to sit around listening to old dudes record colletions all day, ya know, just scoping out out lables, enjoyin rarities and so on!
You know that the older folk have usually got the good stuff stashed away somewhere, like old cars, old clothes and of course old wax!
Anyways, i've been recording alot of my wax onto CD so as i can take it with me in the car and what not, and the set up i use runs like this:
Technics 1200mkII turntable with shure 54 stylus, running to phono in on channel 1 on a Vestax Pmc-o5Pro DJ mixer, then out through effects send program 1, to line in on the Mbox and onto a stereo audio track in Pro Tools.
Got no probs with getting plenty of level to digital and it sounds just like it does when its coming out through my monitors.
Pays to give the wax a good fog up by breathing closely on a couple of different spots (i dont recomend using water as it can have minerals in it), and then using a really soft cloth (like felt) to run along with the direction of the grooves, all the way round. Providing that the vinyl hasn't got great big dirty scratches in them every thing should sound pretty good. It's funny because everyone thinks that vinyl is really, really delicate, but in actual fact it's quite resilient (provided you dont let the major goudging occur). Chances are that any old vinyl that you recieve for transfer will have some degree of scratching on it, in some cases you may be able to see it but not hear it, in other cases it will be there but either masked by the audio-or, by the sound of the actual stylus tracking the groove, after all it is a physical analogue transfer process.
Once my wax is in Pro Tools, i don't really do much to it apart from put some +L1 Ultramaximiser limiting on recordings that were originally a bit low in volume to begin with, i just set the outceiling to -0.03dB to stop any spkie in the audio and then start to pull down the threshold untill i think that it sounds right which usually does'nt take much, just enough to boost the out going signal by a couple of dB and then im done. But as i would imagine, it would all depend on the state of the wax to begin with.
Gonna have to check out that software you speak of, sounds good, and by the way if you're lookin forn a good stylus, check out the concord set ups, good sound reproduction but they are pricey.
You know that the older folk have usually got the good stuff stashed away somewhere, like old cars, old clothes and of course old wax!
Anyways, i've been recording alot of my wax onto CD so as i can take it with me in the car and what not, and the set up i use runs like this:
Technics 1200mkII turntable with shure 54 stylus, running to phono in on channel 1 on a Vestax Pmc-o5Pro DJ mixer, then out through effects send program 1, to line in on the Mbox and onto a stereo audio track in Pro Tools.
Got no probs with getting plenty of level to digital and it sounds just like it does when its coming out through my monitors.
Pays to give the wax a good fog up by breathing closely on a couple of different spots (i dont recomend using water as it can have minerals in it), and then using a really soft cloth (like felt) to run along with the direction of the grooves, all the way round. Providing that the vinyl hasn't got great big dirty scratches in them every thing should sound pretty good. It's funny because everyone thinks that vinyl is really, really delicate, but in actual fact it's quite resilient (provided you dont let the major goudging occur). Chances are that any old vinyl that you recieve for transfer will have some degree of scratching on it, in some cases you may be able to see it but not hear it, in other cases it will be there but either masked by the audio-or, by the sound of the actual stylus tracking the groove, after all it is a physical analogue transfer process.
Once my wax is in Pro Tools, i don't really do much to it apart from put some +L1 Ultramaximiser limiting on recordings that were originally a bit low in volume to begin with, i just set the outceiling to -0.03dB to stop any spkie in the audio and then start to pull down the threshold untill i think that it sounds right which usually does'nt take much, just enough to boost the out going signal by a couple of dB and then im done. But as i would imagine, it would all depend on the state of the wax to begin with.
Gonna have to check out that software you speak of, sounds good, and by the way if you're lookin forn a good stylus, check out the concord set ups, good sound reproduction but they are pricey.
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