On 09/12/2010 11:18, Geoff Mackenzie wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Bob Latham wrote:
No argument from me - a cdr is a good way of making an essentially
identical *convenience* version of an LP.

How do you guys do this?

I have a PC with a sound card and my amplifier has a ADC inside giving
spdif 16bit 44.1K out. Should I get a sound card with spdif in?

I've tried connecting left/right analogue into the PC and recording
using
(would it be Audacity?) and to me it was complicated to get it to
work at
all and distorted when played back.

Any advice?

You can make perfectly respectable copies of an LP using analogue -
assuming you have a half decent sound card on your PC. Arny is
somewhat of
an expert on these and is more likely to be up to date on what's
available
than me. Nor do you really need any sophisticated software. Unless you
intend trying to 'clean' things up. Which I never bother with.

Dave - you've sort of answered a question I hadn't asked yet! I'm
looking to store all my LPs on a standalone device - see response to Jim
-; in spite of a record cleaning machine there are still the occasional
pops (no scratches). Was thinking of interposing something like a a
Behringer; not worth it? Would it degrade the sound in any way?


I used to edit the file in a programme like Audacity and smooth the pops
manually, by 'stitching' the pop-peaks, removing the culprit and leaving
the music seemingly intact.

Rob