On 02/06/2017 20:51, Richard Robinson wrote:
Woody said:
"RJH" wrote in message
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I'd like to digitise a couple of LPs, and have the facility to do a
few more as and when. I'm looking to get a standalone unit as
lashing up the computer is inconvenient, plus I like the idea of
having the tracks on the device or portable media like an SD card.

Any recommendations please? I was thinking of maybe up to £200 new
or secondhand. This looks to be OK, but does more than I need:

http://www.solidstatesound.co.uk/tascam_sd-20m.htm

Have a dig on eBay for a hi-fi type Sony minidisc recorder. Record you
disk, then take the recorder to your PC and record it using something
like Audacity.

Minidisc ? It'd still need digitising, no ?

If we're talking 2ndhand from ebay, I'd say a Zoom pocket recorder's a
better idea. I've had a Zoom H2 for a few years now, and it works well
(it's the nicest pocket recorder I've ever had) - choice of formats, from
lowgrade pm3 to better-then-CD wav, plus it records onto SD as the OP said.
And should be well within that price range.


I had thought of a portable. I would be looking to get as good a
recording as possible - so would need to be sure that the A-D conversion
was as good as can be.

Not a great interface for playing them back, mind, if that's the idea. And
if you wanted separate tracks you'd need to either punch the buttons in real
time or do the inconvenient lashing-up-the-computer thing to split them out.
But I'm not sure there's a way round that. [ being Wrong On Usenet is a very
good way of finding things out ]. It'd be a convenient way of getting vinyl
onto an SD card if you didn't want to fire up a computer. There might be
better devices for playing it back.


Playing back would not be the main use, and I'd edit the files on a
desktop computer.


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Cheers, Rob

RJH said:
On 02/06/2017 20:51, Richard Robinson wrote:
Woody said:
"RJH" wrote in message
news I'd like to digitise a couple of LPs, and have the facility to do a
few more as and when. I'm looking to get a standalone unit as
lashing up the computer is inconvenient, plus I like the idea of
having the tracks on the device or portable media like an SD card.

Any recommendations please? I was thinking of maybe up to £200 new
or secondhand. This looks to be OK, but does more than I need:

http://www.solidstatesound.co.uk/tascam_sd-20m.htm

Have a dig on eBay for a hi-fi type Sony minidisc recorder. Record you
disk, then take the recorder to your PC and record it using something
like Audacity.

Minidisc ? It'd still need digitising, no ?

If we're talking 2ndhand from ebay, I'd say a Zoom pocket recorder's a
better idea. I've had a Zoom H2 for a few years now, and it works well
(it's the nicest pocket recorder I've ever had) - choice of formats, from
lowgrade pm3 to better-then-CD wav, plus it records onto SD as the OP said.
And should be well within that price range.


I had thought of a portable. I would be looking to get as good a
recording as possible - so would need to be sure that the A-D conversion
was as good as can be.

Not a great interface for playing them back, mind, if that's the idea. And
if you wanted separate tracks you'd need to either punch the buttons in real
time or do the inconvenient lashing-up-the-computer thing to split them out.
But I'm not sure there's a way round that. [ being Wrong On Usenet is a very
good way of finding things out ]. It'd be a convenient way of getting vinyl
onto an SD card if you didn't want to fire up a computer. There might be
better devices for playing it back.


Playing back would not be the main use, and I'd edit the files on a
desktop computer.

That was how I digitised my vinyl - play into the zoom h2, then USB the
resulting file into the computer to tidy up; because I had one already for
other purposes and I reckoned a dedicated sound gadget would probably have a
better ADC than a generic computer. But it may not have absolutely the best
ADC that's available, I don't really know how to read the specs or rate
them. (These 64yo ears are content with the result, that's all I can say)


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