Thanks for the update. This is a project I'd like to do some day. I'll save this email so I know where to start.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kraig Jones</b> <<a href="mailto:jkjones@tcq.net">
jkjones@tcq.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bob Hartmann wrote:<br><br>><br>> I'm about to start doing a similar project. Well, identical. One
<br>> thing to look out for is the fact that most turntables do not have<br>> built in preamps. That means the signal coming out needs some serious<br>> EQ on the low end. (standardized by our friends at the RIAA, the
<br>> people who want to jail us for doing this.. ) Check out<br>> <a href="http://www.platenspeler.com/background/riaa/uk_riaa_background_1.html">http://www.platenspeler.com/background/riaa/uk_riaa_background_1.html
</a><br>> If you have a receiver with a phono input, make it easy and just go<br>> from the aux out on your receiver. Otherwise, I imagine one could<br>> record direct and then use ReZound to approximate the curve shown on
<br>> the page I linked above to get similar results. Gramofile sounds<br>> interesting but I hated their website immediately. Doesn't say<br>> anything about preamps or filters, anyway. As I've said, I am going
<br>> to doing this soon, so I would certainly appreciate anything anyone<br>> has to say about the process.<br>> Oh, btw, I use Ardour for capturing audio, ReZound for post and k3B<br>> for burn. I came from the Cakewalk crowd, so I like to see stuff on
<br>> screen. In color! ;><br>><br>> Erik Anderson wrote:<br>><br>>> On 10/29/05, Kraig Jones <<a href="mailto:jkjones@tcq.net">jkjones@tcq.net</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>>> I want to record and convert some old LP's to MP3 or ogg. I've found
<br>>>> one way to do it -- turntable to sound card's line-in, using<br>>>> Audacity to<br>>>> record and save to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg. The only thing is, it seems to<br>>>> me that Audacity is more complex than necessary. I was just wondering
<br>>>> if anyone has used any other methods?<br>>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> You have a few options here...you could use either arecord or ecasound<br>>> from the command line to record the wav and then encode to mp3 using
<br>>> lame. Alternatively, there's an open-source project called<br>>> "gramofile" which was written specifically to help people do the<br>>> vinyl->mp3 conversion. I've never used it, but it might be of use for
<br>>> you.<br>>><br>>> -Erik<br>><br><br>Thanks everyone, for the ideas. Project status report so far:<br><br>Had to get a new turntable. The old good quality one with the cracked<br>base was the one thrown out at last basement cleaning, old cheapo
<br>turntable with nice base was saved, but doesn't work. So I picked one<br>up at Radio Shack. Turntables sold at local retailers all look the same<br>-- different names, but appear to be identical. It works OK, obviously
<br>not top-of-the-line hi-fi, but it has a built-in preamp.<br><br>Either Audacity or Gramofile work well to record to .wav. Gramofile<br>doesn't look as pretty, but it's simple to use and the menu is set up to<br>do exactly what I'm trying to do: Record to .wav, process audio
<br>(filters to remove LP noise), and split the sound file into tracks.<br>Export to compressed formats (ogg or mp3) isn't implemented in<br>Gramofile; KAudioCreator does that.<br><br>Gramofile's filters help reduce cracks and pops from scratchy LPs. Not
<br>entirely, but my first sample LPs are in bad shape. Audacity has<br>filters that allow more tweaking, but are not as one-click simple to use<br>as Gramofile. I experimented some with RIAA and other equalization in<br>
Audacity, but I couldn't hear any differences from the straight recording.<br><br>Rezound crashed a couple times while I was trying it, but it looks<br>promising so I'll see if I can get it to work.<br><br>Kraig<br><br><br>
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