cheers,
I am constantly getting more vinyl from discogs and do have vinyl which I am not going to buy on beatport as well so I am thinking about digitalizing it but I actually have no idea how to do that right.
simple question:
What's the best way to do it? What are common mistakes and how do you achieve a decent quality..
How do you digitalize your music?
How do you digitalize your music?
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alternatively you can get a USB mixer like one of these
http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Con ... TID=207900
maybe your best option, u can use ur own turntables and connect them to ur USB mixer. The mixer digitalizes your vinyl so u can record it on ur PC through USB.
Right now i'm using the yamaha MW10C and happy with it.
alternatively you can get a USB mixer like one of these
http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Con ... TID=207900
maybe your best option, u can use ur own turntables and connect them to ur USB mixer. The mixer digitalizes your vinyl so u can record it on ur PC through USB.
Right now i'm using the yamaha MW10C and happy with it.
Good quality cart, good quality turntables, good quality preamp, good quality soundcard/AD/DA converters.
24 bit 48Khz should be plenty 16bit 44 khz is probably enough
Don't clip the tracks
Maybe auto gain in another software
Serato and Traktor can do this on import though
that's about it
The problem though is if you plan on using traktor or ableton to beatmatch for you it will have problems because of the turntables wow and flutter
especially if you use traktor scratch pro or serato and then you have the recordings wow and flutter plus the control records, it will be harder to keep everything in sync
24 bit 48Khz should be plenty 16bit 44 khz is probably enough
Don't clip the tracks
Maybe auto gain in another software
Serato and Traktor can do this on import though
that's about it
The problem though is if you plan on using traktor or ableton to beatmatch for you it will have problems because of the turntables wow and flutter
especially if you use traktor scratch pro or serato and then you have the recordings wow and flutter plus the control records, it will be harder to keep everything in sync
- use decent styli and elements on the turntable!
- use a good mixer (preferably Allen & Heath, Eccler etc)
- perfect your gain structure (max gain, without red leds)
- Neutral Eq's (of course), NO Autogain
- Good soundcard (I use Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 - good s/n, 'natural feel')
- for most electronic music: 44100/16 bit is way enough:
44100, because most vinyl-engineers cut everything above 17 kHz
16 bit, because electronic tracks mostly have a small dynamic range
- don't normalize, don't compress (if you like the tracks)
Of course, these recommendations are always subject for debate (yeah, purists and audiophiles) but the above gives me very decent results...
- use a good mixer (preferably Allen & Heath, Eccler etc)
- perfect your gain structure (max gain, without red leds)
- Neutral Eq's (of course), NO Autogain
- Good soundcard (I use Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 - good s/n, 'natural feel')
- for most electronic music: 44100/16 bit is way enough:
44100, because most vinyl-engineers cut everything above 17 kHz
16 bit, because electronic tracks mostly have a small dynamic range
- don't normalize, don't compress (if you like the tracks)
Of course, these recommendations are always subject for debate (yeah, purists and audiophiles) but the above gives me very decent results...
All of this, except Normalizing actually just raises the overall volume/gain on quiet recordings to a certain point...so it's actually not harmful, it's desired.cecil wrote:- use decent styli and elements on the turntable!
- use a good mixer (preferably Allen & Heath, Eccler etc)
- perfect your gain structure (max gain, without red leds)
- Neutral Eq's (of course), NO Autogain
- Good soundcard (I use Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 - good s/n, 'natural feel')
- don't normalize, don't compress (if you like the tracks)
Of course, these recommendations are always subject for debate (yeah, purists and audiophiles) but the above gives me very decent results...
Different than compression.
Just make sure you normalize only to 100%, not above.
Oh, and also clean the sh¡t out of your records before recording.
More good advice, same as above.ekwipt wrote:Good quality cart, good quality turntables, good quality preamp, good quality soundcard/AD/DA converters.
24 bit 48Khz should be plenty 16bit 44 khz is probably enough
Don't clip the tracks
This I don't understand; I don't have that issue whatsoever with my recordings, and I record using a 1200 with pitch (typically) locked at zero.The problem though is if you plan on using traktor or ableton to beatmatch for you it will have problems because of the turntables wow and flutter
especially if you use traktor scratch pro or serato and then you have the recordings wow and flutter plus the control records, it will be harder to keep everything in sync
Using a belt-drive turntable or any turntable with bad/wobbly pitch will increase the likelihood of these problems though....