Hi all, If you have a bunch of vinyl records you've been meaning to digitize, now is the time. Disk space is dirt cheap and Linux has all the utilities you'll need.
I'll present on digitizing your vinyl records Wednesday night, 5/5/2010, at 7pm, at the GoLUG meeting at Full Sail University, room 3B-308. This hour long presentation will cover: * The philosophy of vinyl record digitization * Best hardware choices (turntable, preamp, mixer, soundcard vs USB, etc) * Best software choices (audacity, gnome_wave_cleaner, sox, alsa utils) * Record preparation * Soundcard setup * Handling levels for best sound without clipping * Creating a fast, easy and error free digitizing system Here are some questions that will be answered: * Why any fool can digitize a couple records, but digitizing a hundred is a real challenge, and how to meet that challenge. * Why the $89 USB turntable at Costco might not be what you want. * Why you might not want to de-click, de-pop, de-crackle or de-noise. * Why 78 RPM records present special problems beyond speed, and what to do about them. * How to cut up 33rpm LP albums. * What a production line conversion script looks like. * Converting to .ogg or .mp3 I'll demonstrate vinyl digitization, both on a single record and as a production line process, using a turntable, mixer, speakers, headphones, and Ubuntu 10.04. The "Digitizing Vinyl" presentation will take about an hour. After that, either Jim Hartley will present on Free Pascal, or we'll have a question and answer period with everyone asking questions on any Linux related subject, and anyone with an answer answering. Once again, if you have a closet full of old vinyl, disk space is cheap these days, so now's the time to digitize. Hope to see you at Wednesday night's meeting. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
