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Subject:problem ripping old LP's Posted by: LarryLuckham Date:5/30/2004 8:38:47 PM My father in law has a large collection of old LP's that he wanted to transfer to CD's or a harddrive. I had an unused copy of SoundForge left from a soundcard purchass. I bougnt a small preamy with RIAA correction to provide the bridge from his turntable to his coumputer. He has an AMD 700 based white box with VIA chipset for sound, and is running (ugh!) WinME.. I hooked everything up, turntable to preamp, and preamp to line in on the computer. Everything worked as expected. al LP played on the turntable sounded fine as monitored on the computer's speakers. I set SF to 44.1K/16bit and recored a track, then saved as a .wav file. I expected the file to playback at the same, or nearly the same, quality as the monitored sound. Not so. The sound quality was very disappointing to say the least, much worse than the monitored sound. I've tried fooling with various SF settings without resolving the issue. I tried using Nero, another software package, with a similar result. I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Any suggestions, from those more experienced? Larry Luckham larry@luckham.com
Subject:RE: problem ripping old LP's Reply by: Engineer Date:5/30/2004 11:19:19 PM The problems looks like it might be from SF (what vrs is it) or the sound card. As you state the quality monitored is better than the CD. This leeds me to the burner driver. Try a different one.
Subject:RE: problem ripping old LP's Reply by: RiRo Date:5/30/2004 11:51:19 PM Need more information as to what the file sounds like. It could be that the record levels are too hot and are clipping the digital file. Yeah, the monitor will sound ok, but the file will be awful. RiRo
Subject:RE: problem ripping old LP's Reply by: johnmeyer Date:5/31/2004 12:25:05 AM As RiRo says, you have to set the record level. What was the peak level reported by SoundForge during your recording?
Subject:RE: problem ripping old LP's Reply by: rraud Date:5/31/2004 3:27:55 PM Yes Larry, it should sound close to what was monitored. Did you monitor the source in the Sound Forge record mode? What were the meters reading on REC and PB. (View PB meters- Alt+6) See this thread for setting up sound card and a desription of settingshttp://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=3&MessageID=258280
Subject:RE: problem ripping old LP's Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:6/1/2004 1:16:12 AM Ensure no clipping on record (click the "monitor" box)and adjust input level accordingly (in Windows/soundcard's mixer applet) . Also, you don't mention what soundcard. SF can only record the data received from the soundcard - if that is crappy, then crappy is what you'll get. geoff
Subject:RE: problem ripping old LP's Reply by: keether Date:6/1/2004 4:55:17 PM Of course you have line in going into the right place....

Subject:problem ripping old LP's

Posted by: LarryLuckham

Date:5/30/2004 8:38:47 PM

My father in law has a large collection of old LP's that he wanted to transfer to CD's or a harddrive. I had an unused copy of SoundForge left from a soundcard purchass. I bougnt a small preamy with RIAA correction to provide the bridge from his turntable to his coumputer. He has an AMD 700 based white box with VIA chipset for sound, and is running (ugh!) WinME..

I hooked everything up, turntable to preamp, and preamp to line in on the computer. Everything worked as expected. al LP played on the turntable sounded fine as monitored on the computer's speakers.

I set SF to 44.1K/16bit and recored a track, then saved as a .wav file. I expected the file to playback at the same, or nearly the same, quality as the monitored sound. Not so. The sound quality was very disappointing to say the least, much worse than the monitored sound.

I've tried fooling with various SF settings without resolving the issue. I tried using Nero, another software package, with a similar result.

I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Any suggestions, from those more experienced?

Larry Luckham
larry@luckham.com