The ones I will be using hasn't been cleaned or played for some time! Need something to get the dirt out from inside the grooves I think.
-----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:16 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Vinyl Studio I use a micro fibre cloth these days, pulls the dust from the record. > On 19 Jan 2017, at 8:12 pm, André van Deventer <andred...@webafrica.org.za> > wrote: > > Still must find the time to put this through its paces. Just trying to find > the best solution now to clean records. Other equipment in place - NAD > preamp and Rega iii turntable! > > Regards > > Andr é > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane > Trethowan > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:43 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Fwd: Vinyl Studio > > 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. > > > > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
