[TCLUG] ripping vinyl (WAS: suggest a good sound card?)

Tue Aug 10 14:47:53 CDT 2004

Oh, audacity has the RIAA curve pre-defined.

Just go into effect, then equalization, click RIAA and then load
predefined.

Benjamin E. Neigebauer
Software Engineer
Compellent Technologies
Eden Prairie, MN 55344

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG] ripping vinyl (WAS: suggest a good sound card?)

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Linabery <slinabery at worldcycling.com> writes:

    Steve> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:32:42PM -0500, Ian Stoner wrote:
    >> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:31:16 -0500
    >> Steve Linabery <slinabery at worldcycling.com> wrote:
    >> > What software do people use to do vinyl-to-digital capture? I
would
    >> > *love* to digitize my extensive LP collection.
    >> 
    >> I hear good things about an old program called gramofile.
    >> 
    >> http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/
    >> http://packages.debian.org/testing/sound/gramofile

    [...snip...]

    Steve> in response to Dan's question about hardware only; yeah, I
    Steve> was hoping I could just plug the turntable into the
    Steve> soundcard and the software would apply some filter to the
    Steve> signal to reproduce the RIAA curve. That way my laziness
    Steve> could be completely indulged; I wouldn't have to pull my
    Steve> old receiver out of its rack (it's nowhere near my box).

I'm not at all an audiophile, so this is really seat of the pants, but
AFAICT you need to push the signal through a receiver.  Yes, it's a
nuisance.  If you find out a way to do this just plugging in RCA
jacks, please let us all know!!!

R

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