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Subject:Recording vinyl - Problems Posted by: Bungle Date:3/14/2009 7:21:04 AM I'm currently in the process of digitizing my vinyl collection, I have about 500 records so it's quite a time consuming process. I have run into 2 problems which i'm hoping someone can help with: 1) Sometimes I cannot enter text into the track name fields. I can always select the first track and enter text, but cannot then select subsequent tracks. I have tried double-clicking, clicking, page down, down arrow and nothing allows me to select the track title field and enter any text. Has anyone else experienced this? 2) The track detection doesn't always work correctly and you can't modify the regions manually. To get around this I check the box marked 'leave the underlying data open' once you're done recording, modify the regions manually. Select all the data in a single region and copy it into a new track, then save that track. Repeat for all tracks. Anyone got any better ideas. I'll be honest I'm a bit miffed that this part of the software hasn't been thought through fully, I bought it on the strength of this and I think with a few simple tweaks it could be brilliant, but at the moment it's really quite frustrating. Any help on the above greatly appreciated.
Subject:RE: Recording vinyl - Problems Reply by: rraud Date:3/14/2009 7:58:13 AM Are we talking SF here or CD Arc? Tracks or files?? Regions to files? SF-9 or AS? Can you explain in more detail? Or did I take too much medication last night.
Subject:RE: Recording vinyl - Problems Reply by: Bungle Date:3/14/2009 9:47:57 AM Sound Forge Audio Studio 9.0d. When you go to Tools -> Vinyl Recording and Restoration it brings up a friendly little wizard which is supposed to make recording your vinyl easy, however it's got a few problems, as mentioned above.
Subject:RE: Recording vinyl - Problems Reply by: Phylter Date:3/14/2009 1:06:12 PM I agree. It doesn't seem real smart about how it creates the tracks (really regions) or labelling them. What I recommend is to go ahead and record the record, let it do it's audio restoration and peak normalization. Do not burn it yet. On the last screen put a check where it says to keep the underlying data window open, then click finish. Now you can go through and edit the tracks (really regions) that were automatically created and you can even label them by right clicking the region number at the top. You can add regions by selecting an area of audio and pressing 'r' on the keyboard. After doing all that you can click Tools->Burn Disc At Once CD. This will turn the regions into tracks and burn them to disc as you have them. It will burn the tracks in the order that they are labeled. Sorry if this isn't clear. I'm not very good at conveying an idea sometimes.
Subject:RE: Recording vinyl - Problems Reply by: Bungle Date:3/14/2009 5:36:09 PM Thanks for your reply mate, makes alot of sense. Problem is, i'm not trying to burn a CD, i'm trying to store everything in WAV format so I can play out without lugging my flight case full of records around - my back isn't what it used to be! :)
Subject:RE: Recording vinyl - Problems Reply by: Phylter Date:3/14/2009 6:55:42 PM Guess I should have tried to understand the problem more clearly. I guess you already addressed what I said. I thought I had read it and understood though. Sorry.
Subject:RE: Recording vinyl - Problems Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:3/15/2009 3:44:51 PM It will be confused wrt track marking with high levels of surface noise. It can't do magic. Can't help on the track naming thing cos I haven't got your version, sorry. geoff PS Your handle 'Bungle' - does this imply that you have have tendancy to have difficulty with things ? ;-)

Subject:Recording vinyl - Problems

Posted by: Bungle

Date:3/14/2009 7:21:04 AM

I'm currently in the process of digitizing my vinyl collection, I have about 500 records so it's quite a time consuming process. I have run into 2 problems which i'm hoping someone can help with:

1) Sometimes I cannot enter text into the track name fields. I can always select the first track and enter text, but cannot then select subsequent tracks. I have tried double-clicking, clicking, page down, down arrow and nothing allows me to select the track title field and enter any text. Has anyone else experienced this?

2) The track detection doesn't always work correctly and you can't modify the regions manually. To get around this I check the box marked 'leave the underlying data open' once you're done recording, modify the regions manually. Select all the data in a single region and copy it into a new track, then save that track. Repeat for all tracks. Anyone got any better ideas.

I'll be honest I'm a bit miffed that this part of the software hasn't been thought through fully, I bought it on the strength of this and I think with a few simple tweaks it could be brilliant, but at the moment it's really quite frustrating.

Any help on the above greatly appreciated.