If you’ve always fancied having a go, I’d really encourage you to do it. Once in the digital domain, you can have some fun and create your own edits or simply use the inbuilt filters to remove ‘clicks’ and ‘rumble’. Even better, it’s free! With practise you’ll find yourself ripping vinyl tracks rather quickly and it’s really satisfying tidying up the audio and ‘trimming’ tracks to size.
It can be a little temperamental with a few unexpected crashes, but projects regularly autosave and overall it’s a joy. I had some familiarity with Audacity, but it’s very easy to use. This plugs into the ‘out’ sockets on your amp and goes into the iMic device (set to ‘line’) which then connects to the USB socket on your computer. I already had the twin RCA phono cable that goes to 3.5mm stereo mini-jack (they look like this). I suspect that this is semi-discontinued because I had to resort to third-party sellers on Amazon to get one and it ended up costing me £40, which seemed quite a lot compared to prices I was seeing on US websites.īut having paid for swift delivery and after following the instructions on that YouTube video, I can confirm that this worked an absolute treat. In the end, I selected the ‘iMic’ product from Griffin Technology. Amazon has quite a few very cheap products, but many of them only have mono in, and obviously it’s essential that you have stereo. Enthused with this information, I just had to seek out the right audio in/USB adaptor for my laptop.
#Audition declicker explained software
The Macbook Air that this blog is written with (other computers are available…) doesn’t have an ‘audio in’ and I once tried recording vinyl into the Olympus LS-3 recorder that I use for interviews, but for some reason that sounded rubbish (probably ineptitude from your correspondent).Īnyway, recently I fell across this video on YouTube that demonstrated how easy it was to get great vinyl rips for the cost of the right cable/adaptor and the shareware software Audacity. I own a Rega Planar 3, so the idea of buying some cheap USB turntable for this purpose seemed a ridiculous, and anyway I don’t want TWO turntables, thank you very much.
#Audition declicker explained how to
With a rapidly increasing vinyl collection, thanks to picking up goodies at charity shops with some regularity (see Second Hand News), the idea of this has always appealed to me, but I’m never been that sure how to do it.
If there has never been a deluxe reissue ( Sade‘s Diamond Life comes to mind) then to enjoy all those non-album tracks within iTunes or burnt to a CD, you have to do a ‘vinyl rip’ of the songs in question, which means finding away of transferring the vinyl to digital.
These are often obscure remixes from the 1980s (dub mixes, promo-only reworkings) or perhaps a forgotten B-side. One of the delights of deluxe reissues is getting all those ‘new-to-CD’ tracks that somehow have escaped being released on the format for decades. Or ‘next week’ as we like say in the 21st century. It’s the weekend, so time to take your foot off the gas and kick back with ‘Saturday Deluxe’ – the informal feature to round off the week where SDE reflects on the week past and the week yet to come.
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