Best pathway from Vinyl to MP4 with a collection of remastered jazz and old equipmet

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I have Time-Life “Giants of Jazz” and no longer have speakers but do have vintage CDC sT 110 turntable and YAMAHA RX-V590 amplifier. I want to retain as much of the original “atmosphere” of what were in many cases live recordings, already remastered. I am not looking for any special effects. Is there a how-to guide step by step guide that i can follow, traps to avoid? Should i replace the stylus?

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What do you consider as original “atmosphere”? The “built-in chimney fire”, as one of my colleagues called it?

Just connect the Line-out of your amplifier with an (external) sound card and then via USB to your computer.

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See this tutorial from the Audacity manual:

Peter

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To add to the previous suggestions, if you want to see it done these YouTube videos are pretty helpful:

The videos 2 & 3 apply to vinyl too.
Mark B

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These are useful tutorials BUT be aware that they were all made 5 or 6 years ago when the Audacity user interface was a little different.

  1. The Device toolbar ( for setting input/output devices) is not shown by default - you can turn it back on of you want or need to - nut Muse really replaced access to that functionality with the Audio Setup button in the upper tooldock area.

  2. The Mixer toolbar (for setting levels) has been entirely removed and the level settings are now incorporated in the meter toolbars.

This is symptomatic of many, most in fact, videos that folk make on using Audacity in that they make them and them never bother to curate them and update them when Audacity later changes.

Peter.

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But the videos do still apply for those “outdated” versions (not only of Audacity). If a video would be changed / recorded new with the current version, it would confuse the users of those old versions…

Would be a great idea if the software companies would limit changes in the interface to a minimum.

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You make a valid point there, Peter. I would hope that people using them could adapt their thinking but I accept not everyone is wired that way. There is an excellent book by Carla Schroder called ‘The Book of Audacity’ which uses version 1.2.4 (I think) but the content is still mostly valid and very wide-ranging.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Mark B

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I think they change the UI to make people think they are getting more than they are really getting in functionality. Considering the backlash from users over recent changes in Audacity, can you imagine what it will be like when Audacity 4 is released?
Mark B

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Yes that is a good book, I had (indeed still have) a pre-publication copy and submitted many editorial comments for Carla.

And as you say it was based on an older version of Audacity, IIRC it was the old 1.3.x beta series before we made the changes for the 2.x series which were considerable. Sadly this book has never been updated to provide a second or third edition to reflect the many changes made in the user interface over the intervening years - but having said that there is still a lot of useful material in that book.

Peter.

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I think Carla quit IT and became a farmer, actually. I’m impressed you made a contribution to the book too.
Mark B

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What Time-Life left in when they re-emastered their original source material. Thanks for your response.

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thanks for your help.

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Thanks for your help

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