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Converting Audio from Vinyl to MP3?
superpat asks: "My father-in-law recently disposed of his turntable, and I foolishly volunteered to rip his vinyl from my turntable to CDs. The process seems to be: rip to WAV -> process to remove surface noise, find track boundaries, encode as MP3 -> burn CD. Presumably I can use sound recorder to rip from the line in port to a WAV (I'm on Windows ME, unfortunately), and I have RealJukebox with Roxio CD Creator to do the last step. Now there seems an amazing variety of software available to do the middle stage, from comprehensive general purpose sound processing packages such as Soundforge to special purpose apps such as LP Ripper. Has anybody has any success with this process? Any recommendations?" Has anyone had luck with a specific program or set of programs that might make this process any easier, regardless of OS?
Crackle crackle pop hiss hiss pop crackle hiss pop.
Dunno about you, but if I want something to musically color my music, it'll be the instruments, and not the phonograph. Vinyl never had the frequency response of CDs, tubes are inferior, except for cooking fish chips while boogeying.
Behold, folks, for we have a reader amongst us who either has "golden ears" capable of hearing distortion levels so small and subtle that they cannot be measured with cheap equipment. Using a green marker on the thin edge of a CD makes makes the lows lower, and the highs higher. Placing speakers upon mystical aliminium cones digs wonderful divits in your hardwood floors when the speakers shake -- and makes everything sound better. Thicker speaker cables, sooo thick they have act like capacitors, sound better because we all know speakers draw more amperage than pair of jumper cables.
The Sheffields were better than mass-produced plastic, but not as good as a bad CD. Audio compression (not as bad as FM radio, or worse GSM phones), nothing below 30Hz (except on the "Earthquake" movie soundtrack starring Charleton "NRA" Heston), and definitely nothing above 17Khz. But the hiss from those horny Klipsch "warbles like a bugler's coronet" speakers has probably dimmed your upper hearing.
Bollocks.