Steve Winn -> Steve Winn wrote:
 SW> Re: Vinyl LPs

 >> My dad is supposed to get one of these for Christmas. I'll let you
 >> know how i
 >> goes once we figure it out.


 SW> Well now that Christmas is over..

 SW> What my dad ended up with is basically a new record player and
 SW> Cakewalk's Pyro
 SW> for the recording. We got him a new computer so we could dedicate one
 SW> just for
 SW> music. I installed Win2k3 on it and installed the Audigy 2 Platinum I
 SW> got him.
 SW> His 400 CD changer is hooked up to the computer so he can remotely
 SW> control it
 SW> (like a jukebox). It is also setup to stream the audio to any computer
 SW> that is
 SW> on the network using Windows Media Player. I've also done some guitar
 SW> recording
 SW> which turned out pretty well (the recording, not my playing).
Hey cool 


 SW> Anyways we have burned only a few records to CDs. Pyro is pretty simple
 SW> to use
 SW> (I've used Sonar for years so I'm used to how to edit and all). We
 SW> record both
 SW> sides and then split the tracks and do any editing to remove the silence
 SW> at the
 SW> beginning and end and while flipping the record over. The software has
 SW> controls
 SW> to remove pops and other noise caused by the record but to me it changes
 SW> the
 SW> sound too much. So basically we only do very minor filtering to try to
 SW> keep the
 SW> quality of the recording. Pyro doesn't support CD-Text so we have been
 SW> saving
 SW> each track to the hard drive as WAV files and then using Nero to do the
 SW> actual
 SW> burning.
I have "Spin It Again" by acoustica.
It is similar I think, when tou open it up you get the choice of
record lp, record tape, or load sound file.
if you pick lp or tape an input line choice is there on the page
a thing I find handy is the volume wizard.
you play it 30 seconds in a song and it sets the record volume
when your done recording both sides, a next brings up a graphic editor
with a line showing the wav file you just created with moveable song start and
end markers. with a zoom in and zoom out you pick song
start and ends. another next and you are prompted for artist, album,
etc also song names if you choose rather than renameing files later
another next and you get a bunch of options i usualy choose save files
to disk after choosing mp3 quality 4 the save  the songs are put
in a dir "artist\album\song1.mp3 song2.mp3 --"
There is a light clean + EQ filter I usualy use.
eq adds the bass that a lp lacks and the big pops and clicks are nuked.


 SW> So that is how it is so far with our setup. We'll probably get it
 SW> tweaked and
 SW> have a system in place to make better recordings.

Good luck 


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