creating old vinyl record effect

mikebush99 · February 17, 2012, 7:04am

Hi

I’m wondering what is the best way to ‘age’ a track by adding pop, hiss and cracking as you might hear on an old 78 album.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

steve · February 17, 2012, 10:18am

If you’re using Audacity 1.3.14 on Windows, try iZotope Vinyl VST (free)

Trebor · February 17, 2012, 2:17pm

there’s a sample you could use here … https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/making-a-song-sound-old/13444/3

mikebush99 · February 18, 2012, 9:36pm

Many thanks for your help- great resources!

Mike

mikebush99 · February 19, 2012, 6:52pm

By the way, if anyone is looking for recordings from the early 20th century, I found this great resource:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php

melo85 · April 16, 2012, 2:23am

What a weird interest really
I wouldn’t like to spoil good sound with such trash on purpose. And I have some badly scratched records, so I can get THAT without any special effects.