analog to digital music conversion

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Hello,
I have transferred the music on my old vinyl lp records and cassette tapes
to vcr cassette tapes. This made the process of replaying the selections
somewhat more user-friendly. With a good vcr and an index of the individual
selections, I could easily access favorites and replay them with " cd quality
sound" - this is how vcr stereo replay was hypped. And the sound qualiy was
ok.
Now, I would like to again tranfer this analog music, this time to the
latest rave - digital (CD).
I have a Dimension 4700C with XP professional, CDRW/DVD TSL462C drive and
the standard SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio sound card already installed.
Please tell me what do I gotta do and what do I gotta get to accomplish this
transfer of music to CD.

Thank You and happily holidays.
 
brunetto said:
Hello,
I have transferred the music on my old vinyl lp records and cassette tapes
to vcr cassette tapes. This made the process of replaying the selections
somewhat more user-friendly. With a good vcr and an index of the
individual
selections, I could easily access favorites and replay them with " cd
quality
sound" - this is how vcr stereo replay was hypped. And the sound qualiy
was
ok.
Now, I would like to again tranfer this analog music, this time to the
latest rave - digital (CD).
I have a Dimension 4700C with XP professional, CDRW/DVD TSL462C drive and
the standard SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio sound card already
installed.
Please tell me what do I gotta do and what do I gotta get to accomplish
this
transfer of music to CD.

Thank You and happily holidays.
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Use either Audacity or Goldwave. Make sure you have plugged the sound out of
your K7 player into the line-in of your soundcard and have selected line-in
as the source. Use the loudspeaker icon in the systray to check.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ free

http://www.goldwave.com slight payment

However, a word of advice. When you record off a turntable, you you will get
a certain effect called "turntable rumble". This you can't filter out when
recording onto a K7 video (unless you have an incredibly sofisticated
machine). Plus, when you record from K7 video to Hard Disk you risk getting
"tape hiss". If you are a purist, I suggest recording directly from your
vinyl player onto your PC via the line-in socket. The above 2 softwares have
filters you can use to eliminate turntable rumble.

BTW, they can also eliminate tape his if you choose to go from K7 video to
HD.

Cheers,
Jerry
 
Thanks Jerry,

I came across an app called Audiograbber and it seems ok but it's kind of
clunky.
The program itself is freeware and the plugin to clean up tape hiss etc
costs 19 dollars. Not bad, but I'm getting ready to take the Audacity for a
trial run.
Thanks Again
 
brunetto said:
Thanks Jerry,

I came across an app called Audiograbber and it seems ok but it's kind of
clunky.
The program itself is freeware and the plugin to clean up tape hiss etc
costs 19 dollars. Not bad, but I'm getting ready to take the Audacity for
a
trial run.
Thanks Again
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Use the software I recommended, AudioGrabber is good for ripping to wav or
mp3 formats (for the latter you need a Lame Encoder) but doesn't have the
same options as the other two.

Cheers,
Jerry
 
First of all your current recordings will far better than any digitial
copy. If you look at a Sine Wave created by an Analog source it will be a
smooth curve. therefore Harmonics are easily recreated and played back and
sound more like an Original. Now look at the same Sine Wave created by a
Digitial Source and it will look like a lota of little stairs going up and
down. Very choppy and the Harmonics are all but gone. If you listen to
extreme limited Sound such as Rap, this will not hinder the playback for
there is no Music embedded in Rap just canned or digitial created. Now if you
listen to Acoustic Guitars or any insturment that has it sound linger after
the note is played (Harmonics) then you will hear becpome deader as you
transfer from Analog to digitial. CD quality is not even close to LP or VHS
HiFi nort VHS Stereo. VHS HiFi used Audio head embedded on the same surface
as the Video and had Two, the surface was a rotaing cylinder and because of
this you got waht was called an Hellical Track, somethinglike the stripes on
a Barner Pole, when stretched out it would eqate about 275 inches per second
recording time. Far better than a Recording Studio of 30 ips. The other
GREAT thing about VHS HiFi was the Dynamic Range and that is ALL the CD or
digitail ever had going for it. So if you are going to copy onto your Hard
drive, do so in WAV format, it is by far the best digitial conversion file
versus Analog. Mp3 and the others are compressed and when you compress, so it
will take up less room, you lose sound and quality. LP it far superior than
CD and as long as you had a Good Magentic Turntable with a decent cartridge
and a decent Elipicale or Nude Shabita Needle your sound quality and
extremely better than the BEST Digitial. You just didn't have the Dynamic
Range, but by copying to VHS HiFi you havd the BEST of both Analog Worlds.
People only prefer Digitial because of Space, ease of use and not for Sound
Quality.
In the 70s I had a Sansuii Discreet 4 channel reciever, a Rotel manual
direct drive Turntable, Four Cerwin Vega HED 15 speakers and a Audio Technica
AT 20 lsn Cartridge and I bought many CD-4 Discreet LPs and the sound was
absolutely unbelieveable. Many times better than the limited sythensized
Digitial junk of today.
 
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