On 1/24/2016 9:25 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
Considering that I'm starting up a side business digitizing records (and an assortment of tape formats) anywhere from
78's through 45/33
What are you using for A/D conversion? I want to convert a few cassette tapes with obscure material never available in
any other form. I have whatever's in my computers and a Sony Video camera with a pass through conversion feature. I
suspect any of them are better than the source material.
, I've been spending a lot of time up close and personal with vinyl. I was there for the transition from vinyl to CD.
Yes, some early CD's were mastered for crap. But if it's done right, it's music without rumble and edge warps and
crackles and inner-track distortion.
And that can be magic. Roberta Flack's "The First Time ever I saw Your Face" on the CD version of The Best of ... is
just magic. A masterful original recording and amazing digital mastering mean her voice just hangs in this totally,
velvety quiet space, with no vinyl artifacts. Her voice and performance were perfect for the recording session and even
the very quietest bits are perfectly clear. Every time I play it in a workshop, I can watch its powerful effect move
people into a different "place". They can come in going a million miles an hour; after 4:18, everyone's at zero mph.
On vinyl, no matter how I can clean it, there are noises like scratches on a great print. Ripped CD to FLAC, then
converted to variable rate MP3, it even sounds great played from an iThingie via BT.
I miss full-sized album art. I miss liner notes you can read without a magnifying glass. I miss the sequencing of an
LP where Side 2 starts out with a secondary hit for an energy bump mid-album instead of the one- or two-hit front-load
then filler of a lot of recent CD's. But I don't miss the hassles of vinyl.
And I don't miss the space they take. Well, perhaps that's 'cause there are about nine lineal feet of them right behind
me. ;-) I have even more CDs, but they take up a lot less space. I'd really like to rip them all, make current storage
on HD and put all the originals in the basement, but it's pretty time consuming. I can put them on my NAS, WiFi access
them with phone/tablet and BT play them on a serious system in living room or less serious in the bedroom.
I'm currently in the process of building my own record-washing and vacuuming machine since that needs to be part of
the routine for anyone serious about archving and storing vinyl.
Wanna trade vinyl for digi files?
Plastic Fantastic Moose
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