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Recently dug out the old vinyls and stuck this on the turntable for a nostalgic trip…Forgot how good this album was after so many years…(even with the crackling that adds character and memories to the record)
yup that tiny scratch is still there in Winterwood that makes it personal eh..
It’s rekindled my love for the turntable which reminded me of my Sunday dad as he used to religiously stick records on after our visit to one of gods many houses..
You aren’t kidding Micro! Saw something awhile back stating the digital music is “better”. Bah! That static and the occasional scratches and skips definitely add character!
My 17-y/o Granddaughter wanted a turntable this year for Christmas. She has my eclectic taste in music (probably from staying with me and riding shotgun with me on my calls as I watched her when she was little) so was extremely happy to fix her up.
She often sends me playlists which I play while doing my remote work. Thank you for this one as I haven’t listened to it for some time and now I am happy today 🙂
Never Say Never
The year that album came out the Augustinian brother\priest who was teaching English class in the Catholic university I was attending gave us an assignment to write a paper on our interpretation of the meaning of the title track song from the album. I wonder what song he would choose today.
Every year at the end of March, I put on the turntable my record of Paul Paray conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Pastorale symphony. It wouldn’t be spring without it!
I have a USB connected turntable for one of my desktop pc’s running Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 which I use with the Audacity recording software application to listen to my LP’s from the late 1960’s/early 1970’s on very good headphones while recording them to the harddisk for safekeeping. The vinyl records are in excellent condition, but the digital recordings will never wear down and don’t need static removal and cleaning. I don’t use the Audacity software to remove scratches and pops/static, although it will do that quite well, because I too prefer the actual sound of the vinyl records playing under the stylus. It’s a slow process; and I don’t spend many days or afternoons at it, just once in a while. I do love those recordings though: Boston, Journey, Simon & Garfunkel, the Woodstock set, the Byrds and many others. I hope my beneficiaries will understand how valuable those vinyl records are or will be in the future.
Often thought about purchasing a USB turntable for analogue to digital conversion with audacity…hmmm you’ve put me back on that train of thought again..
I’ve used audacity for cassette/tape to digital media in the past that done a fantastic job of reproduction (good enough for my less than dogs hearing frequency anyway)
Audacity recording software application
Audacity IS a great piece of software. I used it for years making radio commercials. I went nuts with a couple them, i.e. 27 separate sound effect tracks and a custom jingle. Audacity is a champ.
I have lots of vinyl. Beatles, Black Sabbath, Chicago, Doors and Stones, Van Morrison, CS&N, Ronstadt, Carly Simon. My aunt lived in Hollywood in the ‘50s and worked for RCA so we have Elvis and a few others from that era. Most have the crackle and pop. Love to listen and bring back memories of the parties and wild times.
MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, and SOS at times.
Audacity recording software application
Audacity IS a great piece of software. I used it for years making radio commercials. I went nuts with a couple them, i.e. 27 separate sound effect tracks and a custom jingle. Audacity is a champ.
I,too, have used Audacity for years to make 7 Patriotic CD’s for my personal use in the truck while I was driving across the USA. It makes great quality CD’s, imho.
Often thought about purchasing a USB turntable for analogue to digital conversion with audacity…hmmm you’ve put me back on that train of thought again..
In another thread, I mentioned the Behringer UFO202. If you already have a good quality turntable, you may want to consider that. It sits in line between the turntable and your preamp, with a USB plug that basically acts like a “tap” to fork the turntable output to your computer, where it can be captured (and edited) with Audacity. I used that to digitize my collection of about 340 vinyl records, including a handful of old 78’s. I was extremely impressed with the results.
If you’re using Windows, one potential “gotcha” to be careful of is by default Windows seems to record in mono with only the left channel on both Audacity stereo tracks. From what I gather, this is not a problem specific to the Behringer nor with Audacity, but with the way Windows defaults new audio recording devices. The solution is to plug in the Behringer, then go into Windows’ Sound Recording Devices settings and change the default from mono to 2-track stereo.
“Audacity records in stereo, playback mono”
My daughter got me a Crosby turntable about a year ago at a garage sale for $10! It didn’t have a power adapter, but in a fortunate coincidence, I just happened to have the exact power adapter that it needed! I don’t remember what I got the adapter from, but I had just thrown away something, and I decided to keep the power adapter. It was a perfect match for the turntable.
I have several vinyl LPs that I’ve been hanging on to for decades. I am finally able to play them! I got some wires together, including an attenuating patch cable (remember those?), and connected the turntable to an iPhone, and used the Voice Memo app to record the music from a couple of the LPs. I then used Audacity to break up the recordings into individual MP3 files.
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