[Macpartners] digitizing vinyl records

[William Cattey]

I also have experience with Amadeus II.
I like it very much.
It has a feature where it will attempt to divide a long sample into  
shorter songs.
This is VERY helpful because you can sample in the whole album side, and
then have the machine make a first attempt at finding the breaks for  
each song.

With the caveat that I've not used the most recent versions of either  
Audacity or Amadeus, I would say:
	1. Audacity crashed for me, and lacked functionality.
	2. I was able to get some use out of the Amadeus noise reduction.

If I were going to do more LP conversion, I myself, would give  
serious consideration to investing in ClickRepair in addition to  
Amadeus.

-wdc

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William Cattey
Linux Platform Coordinator
MIT Information Services & Technology

W92-157, 617-253-0140, wdc at mit.edu
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On Dec 8, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Scott McGuire wrote:

> At 12:00 PM -0500 12/8/06, Steve Burke wrote:
>> I've done quite a bit of work digitizing vinyl records, cassette
>> tapes, and even some reel-to-reels.
>>
>> Amplifier/Tape Out to your Audio/Microphone-In.
>>
>> Software - http://www.hairersoft.com
>> 	Amadeus II (PowerPC, runs in Rosetta on Intel) $30
>> 	Amadeus Pro (Beta:  Universal, PowerPC, Intel) $40
>>
>> Excellent software for editing, cleaning, defining tracks, etc.
>> Very powerful for very little money.
>
> I second Steve's recommendation of Amadeus for importing the sound
> and editing it.
>
> I tried Audacity, and my experience was that on the Macintosh it was
> slow, crashed often, and was hard to figure out.  (It may work better
> on other operating systems.)  Amadeus is much better.
>
> I wasn't ever able to get Amadeus's cleaning features to work
> satisfactorily for me.  For cleaning up clicks, pops, and crackle
> from the record, I recommend ClickRepair:
>
> <http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~briand/sound/>
>
> It's more user-friendly than Amadeus's cleaning features - it's
> pretty much automatic, and it does an amazing job.  It does cost $35,
> though, so it may only be worth it if you're digitizing a lot of
> records.  (And it only deals with pops and clicks, not hiss; Amadeus
> has a feature to remove hiss/rumble, although I found it removed an
> undesirable amount of the real sound as well.)
>
> --Scott McGuire
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