editing question on inserting space

[waxcylinder]

Hi Frank,

@frankmazz

I don’t know what DC offset is

Weel if you’re really interested … DC bias - Wikipedia

@frankmazz

I’m pretty sure it can’t be corrected on my mid-range turntable, mid-range pre-amp or consumer grade USB dongle.

I’m pretty sure you’re tight

@frankmazz

But, I did use the Normalize function and in so doing solved my other problem.

Great to hear that

@frankmazz

… my project of converting old vinyl to digital (sinful, to some, I’m sure).

Not sinful to me - digibitting my vinyl collection ten or so years ago was what brought me to Audacity in the first place.
I now find myself listening to my old “vinyl” a lot more often either on my iPod or on my digital “jukebox” (on which I use uncompressed WAV files) I find the quality excellent.



A couple of things that may be useful to you:

1. One of the other Forum elves (Steve) is a whizz with Nyquist and he developed a plg-in (shipped with Audaity) that provides a more professional, fade-out than the simple linear fade, it’ts the Studio Fade Out - see: Fades - Audacity Manual

2. An additional piece of software that I used a lot in my Vinyl migration project was Brian Davies’ excellent ClickRepair. It costs a little c. $40-50 but it produces excellent results. Some of my LPs had had a very hard life and ClickRepair produced some almost magical results. See this sticky thread: Click/pop removal - ClickRepair software

3. And have you seen this suggested workflow tutorial in the Audacity Manual: Sample workflow for LP digitization - Audacity Manual
   
   
   
   Oh - and if you ever want to restore that "good old analog vinyl ‘warmth’ " - then download and have a play with this VST plug-in: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/create-and-design/vinyl.html

Cheers,
Peter