Whats the best way to digitise your vinyl?

[JamieBall]

How are you saving the files once recorded? Because, using soundforge as a recorder, I've recorded full sets of vinyl off boards on a crappy sigmatel soundcard and it sounds fine. If there are noticable differences, check you're whole set up from the physical to the software. It shouldn't really sound any different at all.

Indeed. I don't see what the issue is here, frankly ?

Maybe your leads are shit ?

I mean, whatever you're recording into the PC should sound exactly the same as long as there's no problems in your signal chain.

I used to rip vinyl straight from my DJM into laptop (no external sound card) sounds fine to be honest.

Odd question.

[JamieBall]

just throw them all on the floor and take a photo of them with your phone.

is that digital enough?

LOL Henry... I mainly jumped into this forum so I could come with a similar "helpful" answer haha - you beat me to it ;-)

I was going to suggest maybe getting someone like TRON to do it.

[MorePunkThanFunk]

i had a go at digitising some of my vinyl and thought **** this after about 3 hours so i've just bought all my good tracks on mp3 again.

[miss kosmix]

they make specific needles for recording vinyl to digital, check out ortofon arkiv for example: "reference-quality stylus & cartridge for professional/recording use, ideal for recording vinyl to digital"

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/273587-01.htm

[JamieBall]

and this wont do any harm to them ?

As long as you make sure you use boiling water it'll be fine.

(kills the bacteria which cause static)

[magneze]

Err ... won't boiling water warp the records?

[JamieBall]

Nah, as long as it's freshly boiled it'll be fine. Best thing is to get a BIG pot of boiling water, keep it on the heat and just drop all the vinyl into it.

[the_psychologist]

BTW any old setup will *not* result in quality sound! some soundcards will have a lot of noise, while some will be cleaner. that alone is reason enough to seek better ripping gear. you really want to start with the best recording you can afford, since that may be the one you're stuck with going forward. processing the tunes from a mediocre rig can only do so much for them.

just comparing my integrated soundcard rips to my coaxial-->external card rips tells me all i need to know.

i guess it depends on how much of an audio whore you are...

[davethedrummer]

Nah, as long as it's freshly boiled it'll be fine. Best thing is to get a BIG pot of boiling water, keep it on the heat and just drop all the vinyl into it.

chuck a couple of onions in there and some fresh limes
they'll come out good as new