LP to cd

[corosus]

hey i have exams comming up, but after that my mom wants to me to convert her LP's to cd, i'm planning to use the mic in on my pc for recording. since i have to process it thru my pc annyway i'd like to clean up te quality of the sound (take out the distortions......) does annyone have anny tips???

[Trent Steel]

You will get much better recording if you use an RCA to 1/8" converter, from the record player to the line in of your PC. As for cleaning it up others might know the name of the program that automatically encodes and splits long audio feeds into seperate files. Nero has built in cleaning that you can customise when burning a CD. One suggestion is that since you already own a personal license to the music on the LPs you could just track down the same songs on a file trading program and burn them in the same order as on the LPs, you will most likely get much higher quality of sound doing this, but you will have to verify each song for defects or bad encoding. Although there may be some legal issues with the second method, Mods please comment.

[morriswindgate]

http://www.delback.co.uk/lp-cdr.htm

[Confused]

I've been using Goldwave ww.goldwave.com to convert some casettes to CD. Should work with LP's also if your turntable has line out or headphone jack that you can use for line out.
Chas

[gbirke]

Just a pointer. Dont try and plug a turntable directly into the mic input, the sound will be distorted. Turntables dont put out a standard level signal. Go thru a stereo and use the tape output jacks.

[corosus]

my dad has a marantz pickup and amplifier (the rest of the setup is maranz to but that's irrelevant now) and i have his permission to use it, so i was planning to use that., i'm gonna put in a new needle, so i guess the audio hardware is ok, i'm only kindof confused about cleanup (thank for that link morriswindgate) but i guess it won't be that hard to figure out, thank you

[Panama Red]

I've done quite a bit of this type CD making from LP as well as old cassettes. One of the concerns of recording the entire album is that it creates one track on the CD. Some find this acceptable. I prefer to monitor the recordings thru headphones and start and stop each track. I use the Recorder that came with my Soundblaster Audigy sound card. It also has dual RCA inputs on the front panel making patch cord connection easy. There is software out there that claims to be able to catch the breaks between songs and create them on the CD, but I haven't had much luck making it work. (either too many breaks or not in the right spot.) Just some ideas for you. Good luck. and be careful, you may enjoy mom's old music!

[Parangles]

Read the tutorial on that UK site- more than you need to know. Link to shareware program that will auto split the tracks etc (Wave Repair) You need to turn down the 'sensitivity' and it will auto split the tracks.ie if its too high it will read the crackle between tracks as music. Have fun- I did.

[Panama Red]

Parangles: thanx for the tip. I'll read the rest

[flanzig1]

I use Audio Cleaning Lab from Magix and it does have the ability to seperate the record tracks to seperate tracks on CD. It has other post processing features to clean the recording.

[Grahamdubya]

I've had remarkable sucess with the Cool Edit Pro series of programs (by Syntrillium Software). If you get an RCA to 1/8" concert and run that into the line in on the back of your sound card, you can record it all in one go and then split it up later.
Cool Edit also has a built in hiss/pop eliminator, making it perfect to do LPs and cassettes. I just mastered some stuff of off LPs with this for my folks, so give it a shot!