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Digitizing Vinyl
i am going to digitize a few records today...i will run the technics thru a pioneer mixer then into either the line in jack on the laptop or the line in on the desktop...generic sound car
is either one better than the other?
i will record using soundforge...
any tips to offer?
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give plenty of head room, try to record @ 48hz, make sure the vinyl is static free and clean of any dirty, grim and junk.
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Damn, both options aren't ideal and you'll color the sound with the mixer, but that's all you got in the way of inputs, so I'd say record a few seconds of silence on both (after adjusting the input levels to be similar) and do everything on whichever pc has the least noisy sound card.
if you intend on running any plugins (noise reduction etc...) and your hardware allows it, record at 24bit - recent soundforge versions have a good dithering plugin to take it all down to 16bit later and the extra bits of info will be useful.
I myself don't use anything and just clean up the biggest pops with Soundforge's repair options (like copy from other channel/interpolate) or just copy/paste a similar segment taken a few beats around.
You may notice a slight loss in the high end, if so run process>Smooth/enhance and enhance at maybe +2 or +3.
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also if you have a audio 4/6/8 i would record it straight from the turntable>audio8>soundforge
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Audio 2 is output only, isn't it?
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Oh, sorry, didn't know this. Assumed it had phono in.