ION Turntable.

[mole973102]

Bought myself an ION turntable from Currys yesterday. Has AUX inputs and USB.
Busy now sampling those obscure remixes only found on vinyl and hence annoying to play.

Very easy to use, though you have to remember to set up the codecs you want to use for recording and playback.

I hardly play vinyls as so awkward to do (space mostly). Been meaning to do this for ages.
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I'm using SoundEdit Pro with it. I can then replace the shcshchsh build up with silence...
Sounding good so far. Sampling an Opportunities promo signed by N&C.
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Been saved some time as some mixes are on Disco and Remastered CDs, just with different names. But I have a lot that aren't also. I want to rebuild the singles again as they would be on CD eventually.

[synthpopfan]

I've been wanting to know how the quality of those ION decks are...

How's the intial recording quality before you clean the audio up?

[mole973102]

I've been wanting to know how the quality of those ION decks are...

How's the intial recording quality before you clean the audio up?

The majority of my vinyl are fine as I played them rarely (except to record them to tape) or sample via the headphone socket, so most are a very good sound. If they had pops, most had them on buying really. Very few, so most play like you'd hear a record normally. Today you notice because of CDs, but when tweaked, the files can sound rather nice. Think I'll play It's a sin (vocal mix) now...

What I've been doing so far...

I've recorded the song which sounds great on the computer. But as soon as you play it on an MP3 player all the record noises I hate over CDs become apparent.

I bought a program called DePopper from
http://www.droidinfo.com/software/depopper/
This works a treat for getting rid of pops and hiss...

Then I have bought SoundEdit Pro: http://www.rmbsoft.com/download.asp
This is great for editing the file to add silence to the beginning and end instead of record needle noise. You can also trim off the beginning and end. I use this to sample with instead of the bundled Audacity. I've downloaded the latest version: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

The only disappointment so far is all the Heart remixes are rubbish.

Years ago I made tapes called Hay una discoteca pour aqi? (spelt right upstairs).
Be able to remake it now on CD eventually... CD where possible, then remastered vinyl is the plan. I'd like to recreate all the singles and remix singles as CDs and MP3s 192.

More sampling Wednesday.

[leesmapman]

I have one too, I love it. I use it to digitize all the 12"s I don't have on CD yet (nothing PSB related) and it's doing great. I miss the pitch controller, but hey, it's got a USB plug!