I have done quite a bit of LP-to-MD. The biggest hint I can offer is:
Do it a track at a time. Fade out at the end of each track to eliminate
surface noise between tracks. I use "A-B" edit to chop off the surface
noise at the beginning of each track. (Point A is set to "track top" and
point B is set to the frame before the track's sound begins.)
Other than that, clean your records. I use a Nitty Griity cleaning machine
with homebrew fluid (90% distilled water, 10% isopropyl-91 alcohol with a
dash of "Jet Dry"). Use a good turntable/tonearm/cartridge/preamp.
I use a Technics SP-10/SME III/Shure V15-V/PS Audio IV.
I have CoolEdit2000 and the "restoration" plug-in. I have not had much
luck finding a satisfactory set of click/pop reduction parameters, so I don't
use their filter. In some cases, I've done a trick I learned from a Sony
CD mastering engineer: Zoom way in and delete the offending samples
(generally 3 or 4 @ 44.1 KHz) to remove each pop manually. He was,
at the time, groaning about how many times he had to do this when
cleaning up the studio master tape of Barbara Streisand's "Broadway"
album.
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