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Posted by keithos27 on May-25-2004 17:38:

How to rip a vinyl.

What is the best way to rip your vinyls to mp3? What hardware/software do you need? What settings do you need?

Can you rip/encode in real time, or do you need to rip to wav first?

Any recommendations on software and hardware is much appreciated.

Thanks.

-Keith

Posted by Tranc3 on May-25-2004 17:44:

I hold the vinyl in my hands, then I rip it in 2.

Posted by Floorfiller on May-25-2004 17:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Tranc3
I hold the vinyl in my hands, then I rip it in 2.

smart ass hehehehe

Posted by keithos27 on May-25-2004 17:45:

Yeah I thought that was how you do it. Very helpful, thanks.

Posted by Wildfir3 on May-25-2004 17:47:

You run it through any kind of pre-amp (external or simply your mixer) and plug that one into your line-in of your soundcard. Then you download a program like www.goldwave.com and set the recordsource to line in. Rip away & afterwards encode. Use other programs like "hard disk ogg" to encode directly to mp3

Posted by gatecrasher on May-25-2004 17:50:

Oh dear this thread is gonna get messy

Wildfir3 - ur avatar is gonna give someone a seizure lol

Posted by keithos27 on May-25-2004 17:53:

quote:
Originally posted by gatecrasher
Oh dear this thread is gonna get messy

Why? Ripping vinyls you own into mp3 is perfectly legal? I want to start making mp3s out of the 300 or so vinyls that I have...what's the big deal?

-Keith

Posted by Wildfir3 on May-25-2004 17:55:

quote:
Originally posted by gatecrasher
Wildfir3 - ur avatar is gonna give someone a seizure lol

sure as hell hope so :F

Posted by montana on May-25-2004 18:53:

quote:
Originally posted by gatecrasher Oh dear this thread is gonna get messy

why? i agree with keithos, he just wants to know, now if you want a mp3-fued, you just have to trigger the right words, and atm no one has said anything

Posted by jp on May-25-2004 19:12:

http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/h...3333231,00.html

Posted by QuickStep on May-25-2004 20:26:

I pretty much my mixer into my comp via the soundcard and record my sets that way also.

Nothing big. Program-wise, I use Sound Forge for now, unless someone has a better suggestion.

Ripping MP3s are how I take me tracks with me in the car and at work.

Posted by DJ-Dank-Poo on May-25-2004 21:52:

just hook one of your out's on your mixer to you PC soundcard input, and in your mixer control select line in/mic as your recording source. i would recommend these programs:

AudioMagic
Records from any source (read: line in) IN REALTIME and you can choose to record in various MP3 bitrates or in WAV format. By realtime I mean as your recording it saves directly to your harddrive so you don't have an 803 MB wav file sitting in your /WIN/TEMP folder and then when you try to save the file for some reason your out of space!

GrooveMechanic
Good for recording individual records, you can record in realtime and before saving you can mark tracks and extract them seperately so in this way you can record the whole side at once than split it into tracks later. This program records in WAV only.

...I use audiomagic for my live sets and groovemechanic for individual records, like what your doing.

Posted by Settepotet on May-26-2004 00:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Wildfir3
sure as hell hope so :F

You succeded *faints*

Posted by tubby on May-26-2004 01:18:

I use the booth output from the mixer into soundcard, and record into soundforge. Not sure if you'd want to record direct to cd, I always want to trim silences before/after the track, and normalise so you don't get every rip at a different volume.

Posted by Simcut on May-26-2004 01:47:

Hello Keith mate!

I can explain to you the methods if you'd like, are you still about on IRC much? although I do not participate in any mp3 sharing anymore I however still do rip some of my vinyls to mp3 (as I sell them) and/or for use in my cd player in the car

If you'd like some advice let me know mate and we'll sort out a meet up on IRC

Posted by keithos27 on May-26-2004 04:55:

Thanks everyone for their replies.

Simcut, do you have me confused with another Keith? I haven't used mIRC in about 7 years. I would appreciate any info you have though... I guess you can just shoot it via PM if you don't want to reply in this thread?

-Keith

Posted by Choobak on May-26-2004 05:06:

just get the levels right! and make sure you've got a 45 playing at 45 and a 33 at 33...

you think i'm joking? it's not uncommon for release groups to realease ridiculously quiet mp3s at the wrong speed....

but we love you guys anyway!

Posted by Simcut on May-26-2004 08:12:

quote:
Originally posted by Choobak
just get the levels right! and make sure you've got a 45 playing at 45 and a 33 at 33...

you think i'm joking? it's not uncommon for release groups to realease ridiculously quiet mp3s at the wrong speed....

but we love you guys anyway!

lol yeah, oh boy did that used to make me chuckle, I remember someone ripping a happy hardcore tune at 33rpm instead of 45 =)