07-06-2003, 11:05 PM
Hi,
By digitizing the records first, you get a chance to play games with the tracks before re-recording them. As channel1 said, you can clean up pops really well. With a decent FFT program, you can clean up the hiss from that comes from the newer, much recycled vinyl. Also, if you're working from tapes, you can clean out the tape hiss. You can expand the highs and lows that were often compressed on vinyl and on tape as well. You can do your own lead in, lead outs and make the break between cuts as distinct or melded as you like.
Don't know how much, if any, of this you can do with a straight CD burner, but I suspect not much. But if all you want is a digital copy of an analog recording, the straight copy to CD is probably good enough for most folks. :)
--Pete
By digitizing the records first, you get a chance to play games with the tracks before re-recording them. As channel1 said, you can clean up pops really well. With a decent FFT program, you can clean up the hiss from that comes from the newer, much recycled vinyl. Also, if you're working from tapes, you can clean out the tape hiss. You can expand the highs and lows that were often compressed on vinyl and on tape as well. You can do your own lead in, lead outs and make the break between cuts as distinct or melded as you like.
Don't know how much, if any, of this you can do with a straight CD burner, but I suspect not much. But if all you want is a digital copy of an analog recording, the straight copy to CD is probably good enough for most folks. :)
--Pete
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