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What're you up to this weekend?

cstanton

I'm going to tinker with different soundcards I have, USB and PCI to see which is better at storing and playing audio from old vinyl records that I have.

What do/don't you have planned?

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  • in reply to anniel747

    newer TTs have the RIAA built in. It's also possible to filter in Audacity.

  • in reply to anniel747

    I use an old auto-changer with a BSR Monarch deck and a crystal cartridge, it's good enought for most of the ex-juke-box gramophone records I get these days. The equalisation for the cartridge is a 470K resistor in series. I've also used it for 78RPM shellac records, one of which was labelled '80 RPM' but it sounded ok to my old ears. Another of the 78's tried to take the cartridge right to the centre due to an over-enthusiastic run-out groove so I had to edit a slow fade to zero at the end.

    For 33.333 LP's I use the 'line output' on the hi-fi set-up in the living-room with the original magnetic cartridge, so I don't need to bother with external equalisation units.

    I have a Word table with the details of each track (about 6,500 now). This was started several years ago, it didn't add much more time because the records had to be played in real-time anyway so I had about 3 minutes per track to do it. This data, via a Raspberry Pi, enabled me to add the meta-data to each digitised track in seconds. I still like watching the data on the display scrolling forwards and backwards while an old  78 complete with pops, clicks, oodles of stereo surface hiss plays through, high-pitched wobbly voices sounding as if the singers each have a plum in their mouths...  Little things, etc.