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Recording Vinyl to iMac questions..

I want to digitise some of my LP's. I have had a brief look around of what to
do and software/hardware i will need.

VPI TT (got)

iMac running Audacity.

24bit Apogee or Lynx A-D converter at 96 khz

CEDAR CT15 de-click or Izotope RXA software.

I think that lot will do the trick and the way I see setting it up and running it is this?

Connect TT to the A-D converter then that too the PC?

Run the de-click program first. On doing that though do I need to give myself headroom for dynamic peaks or will the software take care of it and i run at -1 dbfs?
Do I need to do a second pass on the Audacity software after the de-click software?
Please let me know if i'm going down the right path!
Regards.
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barnaclebill

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barnaclebill OP
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Thanks for the input guy's..

Jylee, i was going to copy at 24 bit 96 khz. Is this okay or should i raise the resolution?

Also do you remove surface noise, if so what programme do you find to be good..

Kind regards.
barnaclebill OP
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Thanks Jylee..

Bjbcab, i presume that the click's from the record are above the normal peaks of the music, removing them has no bearing on the end sound.

I haven't looked myself but there may be free software around that can do the job of de-clicking but i haven't looked for them. To get the best result's you will need an 24 bit A-D converter, have a hunt around for some more affordable unit's or start a thread to see what people are using..
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