Transferring Vinyl

I have done some CD-r's as for back-up or to the car by simply recording the LP's as wav-file, and then editing it with Cool Edit Pro. Some major cracks and pops can also be faded if you have time, at least from some parts of the LP.

I also did some experiments by altering the hertz values, but these adventures ruined the whole sound! Didn't notice it first from the lousy computer headphones, but listening them from a decent amplifirer revealed that the sound resonated in unbearable way.

When I do LP conversion with the basic hertz configurations of Cool Edit Pro, the sound is OK, at least in my standards. When you think of the CD versions of the LP's from pre-digital era, what's the difference between those done home or in a factory? If there are some problems with result, I'm sure it's a question of machines or programs and the skill to use them.

But hey, this conversation is nice! These things have bothered me for a while, but I haven't managed to change opinnions about it before.

oliverstoned wrote: Btw, happy you enjoy this discussion

Sure!  I'm anything but pro in this subject, but it interests me. Different opinnions make the discusson, and my (too) big ego seldom get's harmed.  

I have Akai GX-95 tapedeck, but I use it nowadays only for recording the music of the garage psych band I have with my friends. We're having two gigs today, and I just packed it to the car. I don't have very much different uses for casettes, as there's not MC player in my car, nor do I have walkman.

I agree with your opinnion about mp3's, I don't use them exept of listening some music samples from the progarchives. But do you (or anybody else here) know, what kind of formats do the music industry use? How much more denser they are than wav? I can enjoy transcriptions I have done in a way desribed before, but I have also guite bad hearing, so I quess I don't get all the details of the sound. But I enjoy analog sound more than digital, that's for sure.

I'll have to leave before I get late from the sets!

oliverstoned wrote: Akai GX-95 is not too bad on a technical point, so you should use it instead of Mp3. That would be an interesting experiment for you. But it also depends on which turntable/cartridge you use.

I have Technics SL-DL1 turntable. I used to do some taping during early 90's, as my parent's car had a casette recorder. From that machine it ofcourse impossible to hear any good sound. At home I listen from a casette only those LP's I have copied from local library (not too many of them). Mainly I listen only the vinyls themselves, and not any kind of copy from them.

I don't have any mp3 on my computer or CD for listening. I also use the vinyl transcriptions only in my car, or I make a backup copy for myself of the LP's I fear I might not be able to get anymore, should they be destroyed. I also did some "party CD's" to ruin parties where I was invited, but I'm not invited to them anymore.

oliverstoned wrote: I'm not sure understanding well your question about formats being used by audio industry.

OK, it's a bit complex for me to bring my thoughts about this in english, but I'll try.

If one transfers an analog information to a digital information, then more denser the resolution of the binaries representing the soundwave should be, that closer of the original source should be the result, no? I would be interested in concrete details, how much better are the digital formats that music industry use, than the wave files used by common computer users, and in what way these sounds differ. How can the differences be heard? Me, with my bit deaf hearing, can probably be satisfied with much rougher sound than majority of the people.

I respect and like analog technology and products done with it much more than of digital techology. But we're living in digital world, and I'll try to seek ways of bringing some analog content I like to some of the digitalized enviroments I'll have to be in. The opinnions of imitating alive sound with a computer could be taken to a level, where one can state that technology of any kind cannot bring the hoped result: real analog sound. It's allways plain binaries. The whole lifetime of the universe isn't enough for any kind of computer of any technology, to calculate and represent the fysiological phenomenons in quantum scale, which make the sounds appear to our world.

Ouch, I think my braincapacity is running out...

But there's some nice aspects of digitalization, like this forum and this discussion we're having!

Ops, what a mess my post was!

Wow, that's a nice player! I'll manage atleast now with LG DVX8651, as I can play my CD's and DVD's with the same machine. It supports also mpg's and divx, and it was a real lowbudget thing, about 70€.

Thanks for nice brainstroming!

oliverstoned wrote: Here's my power amp. Highly recommended, the best price/value of the whole market Jolida 302

tubes own!!!

someday I'm gonna build me a tubestate power amp...