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What's the best program for ripping vinyl?

Posted:
Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:24 am
by Natephish
The program I use now rips very poorly, even skipping a few seconds of various songs every once in a while. What else does everyone else use? Which is the best? Thanks for the help.

Posted:
Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:34 pm
by oneno
I've had pretty good luck with Music Match Jukebox for the initial rip, and it's cheap!

Posted:
Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:59 pm
by Frau_Blucher
"The Best"? Without reserve? How about Digidesign ProTools HD TDM system with 24/192 I/O and Focusrite Liquid Channel pre. Add the Waves Restoration plugin bundle and voila, tens of thousands of dollars down the drain.
More realistically, I think Bias

Posted:
Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:32 am
by Jimbo
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
It's free and seems to work OK.
Are you sure the problem is your recording software?

Posted:
Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:13 am
by Natephish
[quote]Originally posted by Jimbo
[br]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
It's free and seems to work OK.
Are you sure the problem

Posted:
Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:33 am
by Frau_Blucher
How full is your hard drive? Fast? Unfragmented? Nothing else running? No I/O card issues?

Posted:
Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:41 am
by ekahob
Here's a simple little one for the mac that I have been using. Then I clean them up and add tags with Audacity.
http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17392

Posted:
Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:58 am
by Grunch
I personally burn my LP's off-line on stand-alone CD recorders. I have a process for creating what I call my vinyl masters, and from those I create my final CD, very much like one in the store. But I also end up with a CD backup master of the vinyl to alw

Posted:
Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:34 pm
by tackhead
Lately I've been using Garage Band. Nothing fancy but it's been getting the job done. Before I was using Cubase and prior to that Protools. I found I was spending too much time tweeking/cleaning up the audio that I wan't getting much encoded. I realiz

Posted:
Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:16 am
by Spoilt Victorian Child
Pesonally I just rip with Acid Pro 4...
and its great for editing.
And you can get some pretty good plug-ins for noise reduction etc...
but I tend to not use them and just stick with the original crackle.
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