Vinyl To Cd - Better Interface Than Line-in?, (What Again?) Options

[mortalengines]

You may very well be up against the "crappy a/d converter issue" that many run up against & I'm guessing that the audiophile will be right up your alley. Let us know how it goes.

[mortalengines]

While I'm thinking about it, when you start recording with your new interface, you may want to try recording at 24 bit resolution (44,100khz sampling is ok since it will save space on your hard drive) & then "dithering" to 16 bit (cd playable) resolution. I could go on as to why but in a nutshell, while you are recording you may lose a bit here or there along the way so if you record at 16 bit the loss along the way may put you as low as 12 bit res as opposed to using 24 bit which may lose a little in the transfer but will still be pretty high res prior to dithering. I imagine that there are some freeware dithering utilities out there in the world & maybe some others out there can point you in the right direction.

[Peter B.]

mortalengines:

Thanks for the additional tips.

It may be another week before the Audiophile USB gets here. It's not clear to me yet whether I'll be able to use it on OS 9 (preferred for now) or whether I'll need to run OS X. In any event, there's likely to be some additional set up and experimentation time before I can even identify configuration options or run comparison trials.

I've been kind of assuming that the principal differences between available recording apps are the number of features and ease of use... that a basic recorder won't 'add or subtract' noise or quality from the music. Is that assumption (essentially) correct?

I have a serviceable recording app already, that provides a waveform and allows you to split tracks... but doesn't do a lot more. I'm hoping to use it again (at the start) in order to make direct comparisons to previous recordings, but I will grab a copy of Audacity and give that a try as well, since it offers more options.

I took pretty good care of my LPs through the years and I'm hoping I won't have to do _too_ much in the way of cleanup, but again I'll just have to wait and see.

Anyways... just thinking out loud.

Peter B.

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