Help reducing snap, crackle, and pop - from turntable -ACID Product Family

Subject:Help reducing snap, crackle, and pop - from turntable Posted by: PikkleFfolger Date:4/9/2002 7:30:46 AM Hello To Whom It May Concern, I bought Acid Pro 3.0 Box set over a month ago and have tinkered to the point where I was force to buy a turntable and mixer ( Because that's the only way to get the good mixes!) I have a stanton turntable, numark mixer and a dual RCA Y plug that combines the red and white output wires into the mini 1/8" stereo plug. This plugs into my microphone jack on the side of my laptop, and I can record through acid. My questions are these: 1. How can I reduce the snap, crackle, and pop of static, etc. from the record, I don't know much about turntables I am an all around rookie, I beleive that I have a fairly good needle on there, but isn't there a way to filter out that in Acid or Forge? 2. How can I record in stereo? It seems that both channel record the same, though I have only done 2 songs, they did not seem to have the "life" in my cd player and I checked in acid and both left and right chanels look the same. Doesn't my Stereo Y cable input the music into my CPU as stereo? Maybe the songs I recorded just don't have much stereo? 3. Related to question two, do I need a new sound card to record in stereo, and if so what is best for a Dell Inspiron Laptop? I have now "maestro" which I am sure is nothing special, and I went to the store and they recommended Sound Blaster "Exigy", will this improve the quality and give me stereo off the record ( This was an externa sound card through USB into my laptop )? 4. Maybee I am doing something wrong, but what is the best setup to upload music from Records onto your pc in CD quality .wav files? Thank you very much for any assistance in advance, I really look forward to any replies! -Mike
Subject:RE: Help reducing snap, crackle, and pop - from turntable Reply by: Iacobus Date:4/9/2002 10:46:29 PM 1. Try checking out Noise Reduction 2.0. 2. If you've set everything right within ACID or Sound Forge, you should see two separate waveforms. Could be that the songs recorded didn't have much stereo separation to begin with as you've said. 3. The Extigy's good, but also check out solutions from Edirol, especially this model, which does 24-bit. The Extigy's covered by a one-year warranty, while those products such as those from Edirol or M-Audio are covered by a lifetime warranty. Food for thought if you need the support. 4. It's probably best if you could go from the RCA jacks on your turntable to RCA jacks on a recording device, keeping the signal as pure as possible without conversion. The above mentioned solutions should work well for you. Some soundcards, like M-Audio's Audiophile 2496, have RCA analog connectors. (That product is internal though.) HTH, Iacobus
Subject:RE: Help reducing snap, crackle, and pop - from turntable Reply by: Erik_Nygaard Date:4/10/2002 2:58:38 AM It has been a long time since my vinyl days, but I seem to remember that the output from the record player would need to be corrected EQ-wise in the preamp using something called a RIAA-curve. This because the low frequences were cut and the high boosted before cutting the disc, this had to do with the excessive amount the needle would have to travel unless the bass was cut. I may be rambling here having lived in the world of zeroes and ones too long.

Subject:Help reducing snap, crackle, and pop - from turntable

Date:4/9/2002 7:30:46 AM

Hello To Whom It May Concern,

I bought Acid Pro 3.0 Box set over a month ago and have tinkered to the point where I was force to buy a turntable and mixer ( Because that's the only way to get the good mixes!) I have a stanton turntable, numark mixer and a dual RCA Y plug that combines the red and white output wires into the mini 1/8" stereo plug. This plugs into my microphone jack on the side of my laptop, and I can record through acid. My questions are these:
1. How can I reduce the snap, crackle, and pop of static, etc. from the record, I don't know much about turntables I am an all around rookie, I beleive that I have a fairly good needle on there, but isn't there a way to filter out that in Acid or Forge?
2. How can I record in stereo? It seems that both channel record the same, though I have only done 2 songs, they did not seem to have the "life" in my cd player and I checked in acid and both left and right chanels look the same. Doesn't my Stereo Y cable input the music into my CPU as stereo? Maybe the songs I recorded just don't have much stereo?
3. Related to question two, do I need a new sound card to record in stereo, and if so what is best for a Dell Inspiron Laptop? I have now "maestro" which I am sure is nothing special, and I went to the store and they recommended Sound Blaster "Exigy", will this improve the quality and give me stereo off the record ( This was an externa sound card through USB into my laptop )?
4. Maybee I am doing something wrong, but what is the best setup to upload music from Records onto your pc in CD quality .wav files?

Thank you very much for any assistance in advance, I really look forward to any replies!

-Mike

Subject:RE: Help reducing snap, crackle, and pop - from turntable

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:4/9/2002 10:46:29 PM

1. Try checking out Noise Reduction 2.0.

2. If you've set everything right within ACID or Sound Forge, you should see two separate waveforms. Could be that the songs recorded didn't have much stereo separation to begin with as you've said.

3. The Extigy's good, but also check out solutions from Edirol, especially this model, which does 24-bit.

The Extigy's covered by a one-year warranty, while those products such as those from Edirol or M-Audio are covered by a lifetime warranty. Food for thought if you need the support.

4. It's probably best if you could go from the RCA jacks on your turntable to RCA jacks on a recording device, keeping the signal as pure as possible without conversion. The above mentioned solutions should work well for you. Some soundcards, like M-Audio's Audiophile 2496, have RCA analog connectors. (That product is internal though.)

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: Help reducing snap, crackle, and pop - from turntable

Reply by: Erik_Nygaard

Date:4/10/2002 2:58:38 AM

It has been a long time since my vinyl days, but I seem to remember that the output from the record player would need to be corrected EQ-wise in the preamp using something called a RIAA-curve.
This because the low frequences were cut and the high boosted before cutting the disc, this had to do with the excessive amount the needle would have to travel unless the bass was cut.
I may be rambling here having lived in the world of zeroes and ones too long.