[peel] Re: Who here can relate??

[ROGER CARRUTHERS]

I agree; save your money and connect a decent
turntable via a decent sound-card. Vinyl is too
precious a thing to squander on convenient gadgets ;-)
 As for getting rid of clicks, I have been very
impressed with a thing called ClickRepair (neat name,
huh?) from 
http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~briand/sound/
 I've been using it on a Mac, but it's available for
Windows too, and the algorithm it uses is pretty damn
sweet. Even just using the presets, it cleans things
up really nicely with no discernable artefacts. Well
worth the shareware fee, imho,
cheers
Roger

PS. Am I the only one here who still can't bring
himself to get rid of his vinyl, even after digitising
them ?

--- Andrew Dean <koogy@...> wrote:

> Paul Webster writes: 
> 
> >>> I found a solution, though - start digitizing. 
> Connect your turntable 
> >>> to your computer (through, I admit, a
> complicated series of conversion
> >>> doodads unless you get - yes, it exists! - a new
> turntable with a USB
> >>> output.)
> 
> >> WHAT??? WHERE?!!
> 
> you're all saying this like a �120 usb turntable has
> benefits over / is 
> easier than just connecting your turntable, via your
> normal amp to your pc 
> soundcard via a bit of wire that's �3 from your
> nearest Maplins. (digital 
> transfer, i guess) 
> 
> have been doing this most of the year. the hard part
> is getting rid of the 
> clicks and crackles (i don't trust anything to do it
> automatically so just 
> do it manually using a wav editor (audacity)). some
> of the scratchier ebay 
> vinyl takes about an hour to clean up a minute's
> worth of audio. still, 
> everybody needs a hobby... 
> 
> i never had a decent turntable growing up hence most
> of my old records are 
> on cassette. still, dumping 30,000 like that must
> take some guts, even if 
> they are all happy hardcore. anybody know the oxfam
> nearest where he lives? 
> 8) 
> 
> andy 
> 
>