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  • From: "Ben Donnelly" <bendonnelly AT gmail.com>
  • To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: USB turntable at Costco
  • Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:13:48 -0500

Oh wow, never seen a picture of him from that era. He looks like Paul
McCartney playing Captain Hook.

On 11/15/07, Tim Flaherty <mrdorkesq AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Good thing someone already digitized this for you then.
>
> http://recordrobot.blogspot.com/2007/10/billy-joel-hun.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James Hepler
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:21 AM
> To: RTP-area local music and culture
> Subject: Re: USB turntable at Costco
>
> I managed to get my whole billy joel collection
> digitized and in itunes in a day.
>
> A long but wonderful day.
>
> I just thought I'd add that. I like Billy Joel.
>
> --- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
>
> > Now, if someone built some kind of jukebox, or
> > hotrodded an oldschool
> > record-changer (hmm, do I need to describe/explain?
> > I had one when I was
> > like 8 years old, but they kind of disappeared from
> > the market around
> > that time . . . . you stack a bunch of records on
> > top of each other on a
> > special long spindle, with a record-killing
> > metal/plastic arm resting on
> > top of them to keep them from flopping all over the
> > place, and then when
> > one side finishes & the tonearm returns to home, the
> > thing makes this
> > kind of wippy-woppy noise and another record drops
> > on top of the one
> > already on the turntable, and it starts playing that
> > one . . . hell on
> > the vinyl, and since the height of the vinyl changes
> > as you move through
> > the stack, you don't get a lot of control over the
> > stylus setup, but
> > damn convenient when you're occupied with something
> > other than sitting
> > waiting for the album side to end), then I'd be all
> > in favor of paying
> > the big $$, if'n one could digitize a couplea dozen
> > album sides without
> > touching anything.
> >
> > But the hardware now isn't really much more advanced
> > than you manually
> > dropping the tonearm and clicking "start" on the
> > screen, so yeah, it's
> > all about the software. Goldwave used to be the gold
> > standard for
> > cheapskates, but I haven't used it in ages. I get
> > the impression that
> > there is software (such as, presumably, Pyro) where
> > you click "go" and
> > it sucks in 22 minutes of sound, waits until it
> > thinks the side is over,
> > then looks for the silences, cuts it into tracks,
> > applies some default
> > level of de-click, and spits out mp3s, all with
> > little/no user interaction.
> >
> > That's worth paying for, and there's no need to buy
> > some junky hardware
> > to achieve that much.
> >
> > Not that I've gotten around to digitizing *any* of
> > my vinyl yet, other
> > than Th'Cigaretz, which I don't listen to now any
> > more than I did before
> > I had it in the computer, but whatever. One of these
> > days, since Todd
> > appears to not be getting around to releasing the
> > Jettison Retrospective
> > Box Set, I may digitize the Jettison back-catalog &
> > put it on the web,
> > (along with a hundred other local 7"s whose
> > bands/labels have long since
> > shuffled off this mortal coil) but don't hold yr
> > breath.
> >
> > James Hepler wrote:
> > > Before I got protools, I used a program called
> > > Goldwave. It's shareware that instead of limiting
> > > your use of the program to 30 days, it limits your
> > > sessions to X number of clicks, let's you save,
> > exit
> > > the program and start it up again. I liked it so
> > much
> > > I actually bought it.
> > >
> > > But yeah, I could record a whole side, then
> > > essentially highlight a section of waveform,
> > choose
> > > "save selection as", then Ctrl-X it and move on to
> > the
> > > next song. It even has a filter to reduce the
> > pops
> > > and hisses, although I don't do much of that.
> > >
> > > So, turntable into an old stereo, came out of the
> > RCA
> > > "tape" outs into the 1/8" analog input of my
> > computer,
> > > and that's it. My setup is a little more advanced
> > > than that now, but it's essentially the same
> > thing.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Assuming you already own a turntable, all you
> > need
> > >> is some kind of USB
> > >> audio interface, either between your turntable
> > and
> > >> your computer (like
> > >> this:
> > >>
> > >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/ART-USB-Phono-Plus-Preamp/dp/B000BBGCCI
> > >> --
> > >> ~ $100) or between the line-level output of your
> > >> stereo, and your
> > >> computer, like this:
> > >> http://www.zzounds.com/item--MDOTRANSIT (~$70 ---
> > I
> > >> have one of these, and while I don't use Windows
> > or
> > >> OSX, I can tell you
> > >> that it works well under Linux)
> > >>
> > >> Your computer might even already have a
> > line-level
> > >> analog input on its
> > >> normal sound-card, or have a "mic input" that's
> > >> really basically just a
> > >> line-level input.
> > >>
> > >> Then you can concentrate on finding the software,
> > >> which is where the
> > >> magic happens, assuming any magic actually
> > happens.
> > >> The hook for those
> > >> USB turntables is that they're bundled with some
> > >> cut-rate software that
> > >> will take a 22-minute-long wav file (what you
> > wind
> > >> up with when you
> > >> record a whole album side) and semi-automatically
> > >> look for the gaps
> > >> between songs, and probably do some rudimentary
> > >> pop/click reduction, and
> > >> spit out MP3s.
> > >>
> > >> They seem to be bundled generally with Cakewalk
> > >> Pyro, which you can buy
> > >> separately for $40:
> > >> http://www.zzounds.com/item--CAKPYRO
> > >>
> > >> Or you can explore the wide world of other
> > options,
> > >> many of which are
> > >> outlined in this dense page of text:
> > >>
> > http://magicref.tripod.com/digitalaudio/darmp3.htm
> > >>
> > >> I suppose it's possible that the all-in-one USB
> > >> turntables actually have
> > >> some software integration such that you can drop
> > the
> > >> needle & have the
> > >> software on the computer start automagically
> > (and/or
> > >> click "rec" on the
> > >> computer and have the tonearm lift & drop into
> > >> position at the start of
> > >> the record) but that's about as far as that's
> > going
> > >> to go, so how much
> > >> would you pay for that?
> > >>
> > >> xo
> > >>
> > >> Ross
> > >>
> > >> James Hepler wrote:
> > >>> I saw it at costco as well! I've head horible
> > >> things
> > >>> though. Word on the street is don't buy the USB
> > >>> turntable.
> > >>>
> > >>> It looks cheaply made, and I'm sure the guts of
> > it
> > >> are
> > >>> less reliable than if you were to buy a regular
> > >>> technics or pioneer or whatever device. But
> > hell,
> > >> I
> > >>> say buy it and let me know! I'm tired of
> > >> digitizing
> > >>> records the slow way!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --- DJ Golf <djgolf AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> So. Costco has, for $120, a USB plug-and-play
> > >>>> turntable that you use
> > >>>> to convert your records to digital audio files.
> >
> > >>>> Comes with software.
> > >>>> Plays at 33 or 45, and the box says it
> > "supports"
> > >>>> playing 78's (I
> >
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