[ale] Vinyl to CD

[Warren Myers]

Cool Edit is really expensive now, IIRC. It was ~$100 pre-acquisiton, I
think it's closer to $300 or more now

On 6/20/07, dhhoward at comcast.net <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Actually, I do recommend a proprietary solution that has worked well for
> me that I got into prior to doing so much open source stuff.  It was
> originally called Cool Edit, and now Adobe has purchased it and it goes by
> the name Adobe Audition.  In particular, the click/pop removal, if you
> follow some of the tips for setting thresholds that abound on the web, works
> very well in a batch mode.  Plus, a nice batching function for automatically
> converting captured .wav files into a variety of other formats (if you want
> one higher mp3 resolution for your home listening and another lower
> resolution for your portable mp3 player, e.g.  Costs money, but saved me
> gobs of time converting old records.
>
> Daniel
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jay Goodman" <ale at goody.homelinux.net>
> > No automated system will clean up your sound as well as you can by ear.
> > I've used audacity in the past for converting a few old cassettes - my
> LPs
> > were so kindly thrown out when I went to school :(   Several hundred LPs
> > would probably make you want to pull your hair out using audacity alone
> > since it can't be scripted or automated.  I'd do the automated converter
> > as suggested   in another email for the bulk of the lot. While your
> > listening to you music and notice "bad things(tm)", fire up audacity for
> > fine tuning hiss/noise reduction and click/pop removal and any number of
> > effects you may want to add (bass adjust, equalize, normalize, amplify,
> > compressor, fades, bandpass filtering, delays).
> >
> >
> > > Have several hundred 33 vinyls.  Many of which would like to convert.
> > > Note from previous posts that many of you are sound oriented.
> > > Suggestions would be appreciated.  Need the usual capabilities;i.e;
> > > hiss  reduction and pop removal; also would be nice to be able to have
> > > some effect controls such as reverb etc.
> > >
> > > Jim
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