"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Geoff Mackenzie wrote:
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'm really not the best person to ask. I'm happy enough with just a
straight copy of an LP to CD - plops 'n' all. I just 'top and tail' the
WAVE file. I also usually use this old Acorn rather than the PC - I have
an external A-D convertor that feeds the digital input on the sound card.
Which gives better noise performance than the analogue inputs. However,
decent analogue input sound cards can be bought quite cheaply for a PC.

Do you vacuum clean the LPs before hand?. That makes a huge difference.
It is not really much more work to do a wet transfer, which gives a marked
improvement. You can make a note of any clicks during the transfer and
then edit them out on the PC.

I prefer to remove surface noise by cleaning before the
transfer than snipping afterwards.

Maybe it's luck, but I have never come across the "rifle shots"
that people used to talk about so often on this group.

Iain