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Special Interest Groups Recording Equipment
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This sub-tutorial from the set I pointed you at earlier gives a good overview of the “fancy” techiques if you want to do a bit more than Steve’s simple process (which will work fine for a lot of folk) - see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Sample_workflow_for_LP_digitization

  1. I prefer to record and work with one side of an LP at a time as this gives me a smaller working set.

  2. I prefer to use Brian Davies’s ecellent ClickRepair to remove clicks and pops (costs Aus$40 but worth every penny IMHO) - see this sticky thread: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/click-pop-removal-clickrepair-software/1933/1 . I make the capture in Audacity set at 32-bit float 44.1 kHz and then export a 32-bit WAV file of the project, process this file through ClickRepair nad then re-import the clean copy back into Audacity for further processing.

  3. to help with keeping the tracks in the right order I label them 01 <track_name1>, 02 <track_name2> etc.

  4. I do clean up the inter-track gaps appluing fade-ins/outs where necessary and ensuring that I have proper silence between the tracks. Often I will shorten the inter-track gaps.

  5. I normally never have to bother with hiss and noise removal (my LPs date from the late 60s onwards - but as yours are earlier you may want to.

  1. And I certainly never apply any compression

WC