Albums to CD

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I know that there a bunch of posts already about how to do this and I understand the how but I'd like some advice on the equipment. I have a HP laptop dv4000 without a 'line in' other than the microphone port so I need an external sound card. The first question I have is what is a 'good middle of the road' external sound card. I'm not a millionare but with over 800 albums I do like my music and I want it to sound good. The sound card needs to have an RCA input and RCA or digital output which will allow me to plug my laptop into my Denon receiver. I have all available connection options on my laptop including firewire, usb, etc.

My plan is to keep my turntable connected to my A/V receiver and use my line out connections from my tape deck to connect to my sound card. Using this approach will keep my equipment in it's current location which will make my wife happy. This will also eliminate the need for a separate preamp for the turntable.

The 2nd question is 'What is the best software for this task'. I've seen quite a few mentioned for but those that have done this already what is your experience. I would think that a good sound card would already have software included to 'mix' and record music but I may be wrong.

Thanks in advance for your help
Chips
 
Look for a USB breakout box such as the m-audio gear.
Soundforge, Cool Edit Pro is a good choice for editing especially LP transfers and pop/click eliminators.
 
WAVEREPAIR for archiving/restoration of LPs & tapes

Hi
THIS IS NOT A PAID ANNOUNCEMENT
Waverepair can be downlaoded & trialed & then bought for US$30.
You can record
dehiss
decrackle
declick
normalize
compress
amplify
EQ
Filter
Split tracks
Channel manipulate
All of the above manually or automatically
Turntable to amp or preamp into the soundcard (RCA to stero jack Y cable for a simple soundcard), set to monitor, sewt the levels in the prog & then hit record.
Then maipulate the wave file as you see fit.
Clean the record & the stylus, defrag the comp., set all ppower management to nil or never & away you go. You can even run it through an aural exciter etc to liven up older LPs before going into the soundcard if you want to.
The manual downloads with it & is quite thorough.
IT'S BRILLAINT
The author wrote it to do his collection & keeps updating it & upgrades are FREE
I've done a couple of hundred LPs & dozen or so cassettes.
If you really want to see the diff let me know & I'll attach a before & after. Mind you doing that with an MP3 is almost an oxymoron.
Sorry about the Then Then stuff.
Cheers
rayC
 
I'm using a free 'open source' recording application called Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.

It works great for recording albums and it is 'free'. I bought the m-audio audiophile usb sound card and that works great as well.
 
thomasson Hi,
I have & occassionally use Audacity. It's greta for what it does but apart from recording it doesn't do too much in terms of old LPs really.
I know $30 seems a lot but when you get the upgrade gratis, & I've collected 6 of them, it's well worth it.
I did extensive research into what was available & even considered getting a mac but nothing out there, as yet, matches waverepair.
Download & try the waverepair in trial mode. You can't save what you do but give it a burl.
Record the lead in & a few seconds of a track. Highlight & listen to the lead in to ensure there are no"musical" sounds. Then sample that through the noise reduction dialogue, save the "fingerprint" & then use it to decrackel or reduce noise with undo adjusting the sensitivity until you get it right. Or find all the large clicks from the diclicker & go to the 1st, increase the view to the best available & then slice the click off the side of a wave & you'll see what I mean about how good it is. OR be lazy & do almost all of that automatically.
You can even program macros so that it can batch &/or repeat processes to suit your way of working.
Clive Baker or Barker wrote & updates the prog. & he's created a wonderful tool.
Sorry I blathered on.
Cheers
rayC
 
rayc said:
I know $30 seems a lot but when you get the upgrade gratis, & I've collected 6 of them, it's well worth it.
Click to expand...

You must not buy a lot of software.......

$30 is very cheep for a program.

I payed $70 just to upgrade audition to the next level.
 
Speaking of FREE UPGRADES

Speaking of FREE UPGRADES

I received this email today:

Version 4.8.8 of Wave Repair has been released.

This is an interim release with a few bug fixes and some minor enhancements. The ground-up rewrite is progressing much more slowly than I hoped, mainly due to family commitments (wife and two teenage daughters!).

As always, your existing unlock key will continue to work with this new release, which can be downloaded from the usual web site:
http://www.waverepair.com
or http://www.delback.co.uk/wavrep

Note: if you do not see a link to version 4.8.8 when you visit the web site, this may be because your web browser has an old version of the page cached. To get the latest version of the page, press your browser's "refresh" button.

Please note that if you have lost your unlock key, or if you need to change the email address I have recorded for you, or if you would like to remove yourself from my mailing list, all these can be done on the support page at the web site, and will be dealt with immediately rather than having to wait for me to manually process an email.

Regards,
Clive Backham
 
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