Wootage
 

In honor of the outdated slang thread I am adding the "age" suffix to all my threads. Not "age" as in how old, but "age" as in cabbage.

Anyway,
My buddy just got a USB turntable from his GF for xmas. He brought it over to my house and I am going to start recording my old vinyl out of print stuff. A lot of my dad's old folk and blues records. I don't remember what else there is. Gonna take a few weeks I expect.

I'll keep you posted.

WOOTage

WOOTage sounds like something Pauly Shore would say.

If this is not about woot.com, I am confused.

w00t!

FOOTage ..not like film but like cabbage?

Cabbage is the clue huh? ( the ole frontal lobe?)

the woot is escaping me though but then it always has.

It sounds like a great plan though. The part I understand.

We're doing that at Chateau Limey, too. Watch out for the sound levels - on that ole vinyl they actually had loud and quiet and stuff, not all levelled out like nowadays :yelsick:!

Does it use a needle or light to read the record?

I've done it, too. The sound quality is not as I remember.

I highly recommend Wave Corrector. It will fix a lot of problems on its own. And it makes it easy to find and fix the areas that don't get fixed automatically. Also helps split the tracks so you can just record the whole side at once.

hmm will note that!
I don't know, I'm just a squirell. But I'll ask.
Thanks, Pete. I'll check it out.

I may have a chance to start tonight, if I can stay away from this place long enough.

@ sky- are you smoking those left handed cigarettes again? :p

From a quick peek Audacity looks similar to the pro version of Wave Creator and is free.
I've recorded from our existing vinyl deck to my laptop using it. (RCA plugs out to line in)
The thing I need to find is a proper record cleaning brush to get them in good shape before recording, garbage in -> garbage out. and to dig out the rest of my records from the basement.

I've used both. IMO, when you've got a bunch of albums to do, WC will help you get it done easier and quicker. It's dedicated to the vinyl->digital task.

WC has a trial version. Try them both and see what works best for you.

And then do it really really fast so you can get it all done within the trial time period.

With Audacity, once I got going and into a rhythm, it would take me about 2 hours to get one of my vinyl albums recorded, broken into tracks, cleaned up, and burned to CD. But only about 45 minutes of that time required direct attention from me.

The trial version is hobbled, you can only do 2 minutes, only one stereo track etc.