Transcribing vinyl to CD

[Stuart]

Anex - thanks, that course of action was far to obvious for me! Think the deck will need a thorough going over before we get to that point however.

Regards,

Stuart.

 

[domfjbrown]

Or a pioneer pdr 609 stand alone audio recorder running from tape-outs or a phonostage. At least you get things like peak VU meters you can rely on.

This is heresy, but I use a 609 as a slave, and master to a Sony JB940 minidisc deck, on which all track editing and correction gets done pre-master; the loss of quality you get via MD is minimal compared to the losses I get when I dub from the audio CDRW (mastered on the Pioneer, from the Sony MD using coaxial link) onto a standard data blank CDR for the system.

Copies actually don't sound that bad - even with the MD stage in the middle.

As for the deck, if the Thorens is too far gone, get the Debut Phono as mentioned (and check the alignment of the cart - they're never bang on!), or get a second hand Rega or similar as suggested.

Don't use click reduction as it kills the music - you only have to hear David Bowie's "Hunky Dory" remaster to see how crap and flat ANY kind of "no noise" processing makes music with tape hiss/crackle...

 

[Dev]

Or a pioneer pdr 609 stand alone audio recorder running from tape-outs or a phonostage. At least you get things like peak VU meters you can rely on. Maybe record them to a CD-RW, then just bang it in the PC to clone the data when you are happy with it.

This is what I do, except that I have a Tascam.

 

[Anex]

Don't use click reduction as it kills the music - you only have to hear David Bowie's "Hunky Dory" remaster to see how crap and flat ANY kind of "no noise" processing makes music with tape hiss/crackle...

Still say you should try the audition/cool edit pro click remover before you say that. Its really really good.