Audacity Forum

... so tape vs vinyl vs CD comparisons are not relevant. The bit that is relevant is that MM record cartridges produce very low level signals which require a lot of pre-amplification (and RIAA equalisation). This makes them very susceptible to hum, which is why effective Earthing is so important. ....

normal perhaps
common in consumer equipment for sure yes

you are still sufficiently better than your source material
any more improvements will not be noticeable

...i don't know what the best thing to do is. if anyone has any idea i'd really appreciate it. David depends what you need the best is never to record with cell phones in the vicinity if its mp3 and the cell phone signal is a sine wave burst then the notch filter should be good enough else you real...

in general the first amplifier sets the noise level so you might want to turn up the source to start then turn down the built in sound card which is probably noisier than the other parts then tweak audacity last to avoid clipping if too low first adjust the sound card up if too high first lower the ...

hard limiting will cause some distortion on a drum you may not notice it so much especially if it is kept short in time duration if the rise time if fast enough it might put many of the harmonics outside teh audible range to minimise the problem even more limiting is just clipping - close enough for...

what do you think audacity is changing ? depends on whether the source is stereo or mono what are we cleaning up? if you played a 78 at 45 then the freqs would be too low and you would need to raise all freqs by 1.733x and the time would be too short so you would need to stretch it by that factor al...

maybe
or it could be another bad LP from the same bad batch

is this a major label?
or is this a diy homebrew roll_your_own LP type pressing??
they may not know how to master for vinyl properly

I did read it.
Confirmed that his approach is good.
[very useful for others reading the thread considering usb TTs]
Suggested a way to connect usb that could avoid noise.
Which you also suggested.
Not sure what the problem is here.

for BEST results with least hassles use a real TT with a magnetic cartridge and a real preamp with RIAA eq built in run the preamps line output into an external audio interface (mistakenly called "soundcard") line input and then that into your usb port usb TTs are iffier imho than realtek ...

that sounds like how they keep track of the freq band levels not how they compute what freqs there are to keep track of i do suspect most algorithms use a sliding window to keep the calculations within reasonable time frame and then do some sort of FFT or similar to compute the freqs as they slide t...