Newbie Questions on Tracking and Project Rates

[waxcylinder]

As one who has gotten through digitizing most my own ~300 LP collection I can tell you it is a slow processes (I’ve been at it, in fits and start for about eight years now).

That sounds about par for the course - and after I’d finished mine I had to work on my wife’s

For particularly noisy records there is another relatively inexpensive tool called “click repair” that is also worth the investment. But I’ll admit may standards may be lower than some, most records get converted to mp3 without any noise reduction of any kind.

I used ClickRepair on my transfers after Koz steered me in that direction - it produced almost magical results.
See this sticky thread: Click/pop removal - ClickRepair software

Also inspect the stylus often to make sure it hasn’t picked up an crud.

I made the (expensive) mistake of cleaning the stylus on my lovely Shure V15-III cart with a sable brush dipped in alcohol. D-oh it removed the tip - it turned out cheaper to buy a new cart that retip the V15-III

I briefly tried using the “silence finder” to split tracks and found it not very useful at all. For records with well defined tracks they are easy to spot by eye. For records where one track blends into the next I use the track times from the label to find the approximate location and decide where to split by listening.

I used two approaches:
a) Press Ctrl+M in the song gaps as it records to make a labe;
b) pre-created a label track based on the LP cover time listings

All track get a QC listen through headphones after the entire process (from iTunes)

Indeed - audio review is important

I keep the .wav original until after that step is done.

I still keep the WAVs I made on two 2TB disks I have at home and an offsite 2TB disk in Zurich - I worked hard on those WAVS


Peter.