"Clive Backham" wrote...
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:20:17 -0000, "AJ" wrote:

www.indicativeit.co.uk/yourmusiconcd has been mentioned quite
favourably by a couple of people. Has anyone been disappointed with
the CDs created by this company? Can anyone recommend any other
places - perhaps cheaper?

I've never used them, but I am fairly experienced in the LP to CD
transfer process, and after checking their website have the
following
observations:

1. They say: "Full track separation and Digital 'click' and
'scratch'
removal improves the quality of your music before it is transferred
onto CD. We do not use automatic software tools as these can
substantially alter the tone and quality of your music." This
strongly implies that they hand-edit the transfers to de-click the
recording. This is without doubt the best way to do it. I agree with
their comment that automatic tools can degrade the sound quality.

2. They charge 11.99 per LP. This pricing seems very reasonable. In
fact, I would go so far as to say that it's very cheap.

3. Manual declicking is a skilled and time-consuming process. I
therefore find it very difficult to reconcile items (1) and (2)
above.

Surely they can't remove *all* clicks and scratches manually. I mean,
I tried doing this kind of manual cleaning up myself (before I gave
up) and how would they differentiate between a click and a spike in
the audio that was intended?

From reading some of the other threads about Your Music On CD, it
sounds like they concentrate only on removing the *major* clicks and
scratches - i.e. the ones that are really noticable. That I guess
explains the relatively low cost of the service.

AJ