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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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onhwy61
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You'll need a phono preamp and a way to control the signal level going into the A/D converter. Then you'll need a digital pathway into the iMac. Run the declick program and then normalize (leave -.5dB headroom).

If you're only doing a few records a simple device such as this might be a better option.
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