[LAU] how to record Gramophone?

[Jonathan Gazeley]

Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> frank pirrone wrote:
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>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
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>>> frank pirrone wrote:
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>>>> Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
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>>>>> garry.ogle at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
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>>>>>> frank pirrone wrote:
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>>>>>>> I'd also look into Gramofile:
>>>>>>> for pop/click filtering and automatic breaking of a continuous 
>>>>>>> recording into "tracks" or songs.  It can be used for 
>>>>>>> post-processing the recordings you make.
>>>>>>> I'd also look into Gramofile:
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>>>>>> I'd recommend gnome-wave-cleaner for post-processing:
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>>>>>> http://gwc.sourceforge.net/
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>>>>> +1 for Gnome Wave Cleaner. I successfully digitalized 50+ years old 
>>>>> persian
>>>>> music LP's using this app.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>>   Olivier
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>>>> Yeah, me too.  It's a fine program, but my reason for referring the 
>>>> OP to Gramofile was primarily its functionality for breaking a 
>>>> continuous recording into individual tracks or songs based upon the 
>>>> silence between as delimiter.
>>>> Anyone have another program recommendation for that operation?
>>>>
>>>> Of course it's easy enough to manually split a waveform where one 
>>>> tune ends and another begins, but if one were digitizing an entire 
>>>> record collection that would be beyond onerous.  Also DAO can 
>>>> certainly handle impressing that continuous recording onto optical 
>>>> media, but that's not the same as having individual files - for any 
>>>> of a number of purposes.
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>>> Thanks all. Interesting suggesting Frank...
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>>> Btw. Does it matter for quality what soundcard is used?
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>> Not in my experience.  It's not a demanding audio task.  Others may 
>> report differently. 
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> Can someone confirm or reject this thesis?
Going back a few years I digitised a set of LPs using a SoundBlaster 16 
card with a consumer Technics turntable, amplified by an ancient Inkel 
MX-1810 mixer, hooked up to the line-in socket of the SB16 with a 3.5mm 
jack.

Sounded surprisingly good given the bodged setup!

Obviously you will get better sound quality with a decent sound card, 
but depending on your source, you can get away with a cheap sound card. 
I don't recommend motherboard onboard sound chips though. They usually 
pick up a lot of digital noise from the computer.

At the time I made those recordings, I was a Windows user and would 
probably have used Steinberg Wavelab. I don't know what I'd use these 
days under Linux though.

Jonathan