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Does anyone know if its possible to transfer vinyl to CD. I have many recordes but second hand so many scratchies. It would be nice to put all my favourite singles on to one CD. Can you imagine how lovely that would be? I can't imagine how this could be done. I'd be grateful for any answer. Thank you.

― liliya, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Either get a CD recorder for your home stereo, or if you want to do it on the computer and you have a burner on it, google for 'vinyl restoration' for lots of sites with info on this.

― Ron Hudson, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does anyone know of any freeware for recording tape or vinyl to CD? Nero Burning Rom seems to do just about everything else, but as far as I can tell it doesn't do that.

― Johnathan, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: Nero. Part of Nero is another program called Wave Editor. I have only done this once, but it seems to work, albeit a bit quirkily. I used it to record a Girls Guitar Club song off the Anniversary Party DVD, but I don't see how it would be any different with any other input (remember though that a turntable needs pre-amplification to get it up to line level, so use a 'tape out' of your stereo or mixer or whatever)

Also, I haven't checked it out, but there is a free version of ProTools available on the digidesign site. I can't use it because I'm running XP, but I think it's avail for 98 and Mac Platforms??

Oh yeah, the 'quirk' above was that the input levels never zeroed out , even before I was recording and after stopping, but the recording seemed to be OK.

― Ron, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, I wanted to recommend experimenting with Wave Editor anyway, I use it a lot for cleaning up audio files. Adding fade in/outs and removing clicks and such. I'm sure more pro software is much better at this stuff, but I'm making do with this for now until hardware/software in the audio realm catches up to XP

― Ron, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Prosoniq's Sonicworx is the best audio editor out there and does a great job cleaning things up. I don't know if you are using Mac or PC, but I believe there is a PC version of SOnicworx.

Also try CD SPin Doctor, included with the deluxe version of Toast and whatever the PC equivalent is (Easy CD Creator?).

― J Sutcliffe, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I use Soundforge 5 to record directly from the vinyl onto PC then and a variety of add-ins to cleanup clicks, crackles amd pops and for fiddling round with the EQ.

― philT, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if you don't have any of this equipment there are shops which will convert media for you, at least there are some here in denver usually the same places that put old photos on cd.

― keith, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It also helps to use mastering software on anything on vinyl you digitize, or else it will sound a bit weak and awkward.

― Brian MacDonald, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nooo!! vinyl is the future!! vinyl video is the answer!

― geeta, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

geeta - is that real, what's up with that??

― Ron, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

indeed it is. but it has only been attempted on a small scale. it works, though! the picture quality is crappy and black-and-white obv.-- there is only so much video information you can stuff into the grooves of a record. i think it looks cool though.

― geeta, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It also helps to use mastering software on anything on vinyl you digitize, or else it will sound a bit weak and awkward.

Really? Can't say I've found that - the CD-R sounds just like the LP. Or do you mean in comparison to other CDs? (Presumption here being old LPs - not as compressed as modern CDs, which may or may not be true; supreme irony of vast dynamic range capabilities of digital - no-one uses any of it).

It's certainly true that if you do no more than normalise, and the instantaneous peak of the track happens to be a pop or click, then the whole thing turns out a bit quiet.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Try CoolEdit Pro. It features some pretty advanced noise reduction tools, including a click and pop eliminator. It's also great for remixing...

― Braces Tower, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As previously mentioned, SoundForge has a plug-in specifically for audio restoration. Other things I should mention:

DART (digital audio restoration technology) has a program called DART Pro, and if I remember correctly you can input an entire side of an album, and it can automatically seek out the track breaks, if there are silences. Also a number of audio restoration features like noise reduction, normalization, etc. Check it out here
Diamond Cut also has a few different products aimed at this same market. Check them out here

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eighteen years pass...

Anyone have any luck using software to remove warble/flutter/wow from a capture from a not-so-great record player (or not-so-great condition record)?

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:08 (five years ago)

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