Hi! Here’s an eMail from someone writing to the techno-chat list regarding the Vinyl Studio Record Cataloging and Recording Software for Windows and Mac OS. I own both the versions of this excellent Software and of course credit goes to another list member of pc-audio who brought Vinyl Studio to my attention in the first place, I’m extremely grateful and now for Gordon’s views on the Software and associated topics.
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> > Subject: [Techno-Chat]: Vinyl Studio > Hello everybody > > There’s a software solution out there which Dane recently pointed out to me > called “Vinyl Studio”. Available for Windows & MacOS, Vinyl Studio seems to > totally out-perform the rest of the similar products I have at my disposal, > including Sound Forge Professional and even Adobe Audition, (which I use at > the community radio station where I work). > > Vinyl Studio can even detect the sound of your placing the stylus down on a > disk, and start recording automatically thereafter until either the end of a > track, or until you list the queue arm again. The noise reduction / crackle > removal seems to be at least on a par with those which retail for 10 times > the price of this software. Plus, you don’t get the clipping effect which > most of those actually insert by trimming the higher frequencies where you’d > get crackle much too aggressively. > > I have literally thousands of albums and probably an equal number of old > 45’s, plus a handful of 78’s (which my deck will not accommodate, sadly). I > have already searched high and low on the Internet, as well as in a number of > UK and Europe-wide music stores without any luck for a goodly number of these > albums. Until now, I hadn’t given serious thought to sampling them, owing to > the fact that without processing, crackles and pops from some of these 1960s > and 1950s albums actually sound much more pronounced post-sampling. So I’d > more or less given up on them. Now, however, thanks to Vinyl Studio, my plans > for these albums have been radically revised, and I’ve just brought most of > them down from my attic, where they’ve been stored for years in dust-proof > cartons. Some of them haven’t been opened during the course of my lifetime, > which is considerable, I might say! > > Thanks, Dane, for this very excellent recommendation. Well, I’m saying > thanks, maybe not actually, because you have just created several hundreds of > hours of work for me I think. ;-) > > I say that very tongue-in-cheek, because I’m actually really looking forward > to listening once again to some of these, and to capturing for prosperity > some of those which I’ve never listened too at all. They came to me years ago > in the cartons where my late Aunt stored them. She sent them to me just > before she died about 20 years ago, knowing how I love old records. So, here > we go! Let the fun begin! > > Oh yes, I guess I should include the now almost obligatory URL to the > product, which just happens to be British, for a change. Maybe there is > something we do best after all, apart, that is, from producing the best > branded audio speakers and the best Bluetooth speaker systems in the world! :) > > Vinyl Studio can, of course, handle tapes and other old analogue material, > (such as the audio from VHS and Betamax Video Cassettes). It seems to have > the highest technology noise gates I am aware of of any product at all. I > shall be taking this to the studio with me tomorrow. Anyway, here’s the > website: > > <http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk <http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/>/> > > ======================================= > > My compliments and kindest regards > Gordon Smith: > <gor...@mac-access.net <mailto:gor...@mac-access.net>> > > Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist. > Mobile/SMS: > +44 (0)7907 823971 > > ———————————————————— > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
