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@Steve: do you still need this to be active?

Peter

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@Gale: do I assume correctly that you have collected the votes from here and that I can now delete this thread?

Peter

This is the workflow that we honed for LP transfers - you may find some useful tips here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sample_workflow_for_lp_digitization.html Re budget, flat response, cans - have a look at the Sennheiser PX-100, about 30 quid in the UK (the ordinary ones not the noise canc...

...a loss of fidelity ... is the very hard-to-describe coldness/hardness/loss of sound stage in CD's a loss of fidelity. All the strands are clear in CD's yet the strands still gell into each other/don't breathe properly in the environment somehow. I just lose concentration after a few minutes. A l...

I was resistant to buying CDs when they first came out - but then a friend of mine, who was a professional photographer, got a commission for a photo-shoot with Simon Rattle for an album release. During the shoot he played music on his new CD player and told her how excellent he thought the fidelity...

And there's your problem - the mic input is expecting a very small signal and you are overloading it. If you have no line input then you will need something like the Behringer UCA202 external USB soundcard - see this sticky thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

WC

And rather relying on YT videos, try this set of tutorials from the Audacity Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... to_cd.html

WC

... Blondie should be available on CD or MP3. Do yourself a favour and get this on CD http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blondie-Greatest-Hits-Sight-Sound/dp/B000BIOGV0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1380707089&sr=8-6&keywords=blondie - other retailers are available ;) As well as the music you get the DVD...

... And less distortion? Yup imho - a lot of that famous and fabled "vinyl warmth" comes from the distortion supplied by the cartridge and the phono pre-amp 8-) I started buying CDsin the 80;s because a) I got fed up of buying LPs that were "cold pressings" and having to take th...