How does Audacity work?

[waxcylinder]

@XEyedBear

Yes I plan to capture in WAV format and yes I agree there is a lot of work to do in clean up with this amount of raw data. I plan therefore to process this data in something like Soundsoap to automatically apply a degree of clean up, rather than do a manual repair. Is my planned approach going to be effective? If the results I achieve are reasonably good - to my ears - then I will probably archive the digital form of the music in a lossless compressed format, other than WAV.

Dear Gladly,

yes this should work - when I converted my vinyl I started out with manual click & pop repair (very tedious and very time consuming). The I got a steer from Koz and landed on an automated package he recommended - Brian Davies’ ClickRepair - see this sticky thread: Click/pop removal - ClickRepair software
This produced excellent results for me, rescuing many previosly unplayable vinyls.

But do yoursef a favour and do keep at least the 16-bit WAVs (you do a lot of work getting there) - buy yourself a couple of 1TB or 2TB USB disks, they’re quite cheap these days. I have duplicate copies of all my WAV files and duplicate backups of theirt MP3 or AAC compressed equivalents that I use on my iPods. I use the WAVs on my mains powered X30 jukebox device, which I later acquired, plumbed into my hi-fi rig (so I was glad of archiving them as WAV then).

WC