Hi Jessica,
About 4 years ago I did exactly what you are talking about. I
purchased a USB turn table. It was not expensive about $60.00 . It was
probably not very high quality but it worked fine for my needs. Over the
winter months I digitized my vinyl collection. The results were very good and
at the end of the process I got a very big surprise. Here is what I did and
what happened.
I used Amadeus Pro to record and then split the recording into tracks. I was a
experienced user of Audacity on the PC and started with that on the mac but
found it much easier to use Amadeus Pro.
I then did a podcast about the process and as I left my email in the podcast I
received emails from many people doing the same thing.
My podcast is outdated now but essentially the process is the same. there are
many podcasts out there teaching the same steps on newer versions of Amadeus
Pro.
the next thing I did was I used Sound Hound on my iPhone to identify songs,
artists and albums.
I also sometimes used VizWiz on my iPhone to identify albums.
I labeled my tracks carefully.
I must have done a good job labeling and recording the tracks as a year later
I subscribed to itunes Match. To my surprise my vinyl trackes were often
recognized and I ended up with many tracks replaced as high quality itunes
versions. As a result my work ended up with my having both the familiar
crackle copies and new digital copies.
I truly enjoyed the process of recording the vinyl.
Best of luck with your project.
If you want my old podcast I might be able to dig it up and put it out in a
dropbox link.
It was on blindcooltech.com and thus was lost when that site went away.
Eric Caron
On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I originally didn't really want to go that route , but considering the fact
> that sons of the stuff I'm looking for is out of print and is available on
> vinal only, I unfortunatly don't have a choice.)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 10, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> While I haven't played around with this, most USB turntables will not hook
>> up to your line in/out jacks. The turntable will just connect via USB and
>> have a built-in analog to digital converter. So it should just show up as a
>> generic audio input device which you can record from using your favorite
>> app. You could even do it with plain old quicktime if you so desired. the
>> more tricky stuff is splitting up the recorded audio into tracks along with
>> any post-processing for scratches and such. Then you also have to name each
>> track and add all the other meta data like album name, artist, release date
>> etc. In the end you have to consider if all that is worth your time. Unless
>> you have some rare or special stuff it might be money better spent in iTunes
>> getting pristine copies of your favorite tracks or even buying the CD
>> versions and importing them. If you still want to go forward I'd check into
>> the turntables offered by Sweetwater, Guitar Center, B&H and the like. Seems
>> to start at about $100 for a basic one and goes up to about $800 for a super
>> deluxe model.
>>
>> http://www.sweetwater.com/store/search.php?s=usb+turntable&Go=Search
>> http://www.guitarcenter.com/Search/Default.aspx?internal=1&browser=&fsrc=usb+turntable&src=usb+turntable
>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=usb+turntable&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=
>>
>> CB
>>
>>> On 12/10/13 9:26 PM, Jessica Moss wrote:
>>> I'm wanting a usb turntable for Christmas, but not sure of a good model to
>>> buy, and kind of need a memory refresher on how to use one.
>>> I think I have the jist of it, needing to hook it into the line in/out
>>> jacks, which I'm not 100% sure which ones are where, and could use some
>>> tips on the conversion process, considering the fact that I've never really
>>> played around much with audacity much, sense the few times I've tried, I
>>> couldn't make heads or tails of it, so gave up on it, so would love some
>>> pointers. Whatever info someone could give me here would really be
>>> appreciated.
>>
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