Converting Vinyl to Digital

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dara

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Hi. I am new here.

I am using Nero 6 full version.

I am in the process of converting my LP's etc to my PC. I have been saving my tracks to MP3Pro at 96kbit.

I would like to know, in your opinions, is there a better format to save to apart from wave? I find that I am losing something after using declicker and noise reduction etc.

What's the best method?

I look forward to hearing from you.
 
aybesea

aybesea

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I think the best method is to use Sound Forge and the Noise Reduction plug in. Once you capture and master, then convert to your format of choice.
 
Nunyobiznes

Nunyobiznes

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Been using Cool Edit Pro myself to do the same thing. I think the filters for Cool Edit do a better job of cleaning up noise without taking out what you want to hear.
 
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LTR12101B

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NEVER use a compressed format untill all processing is complete, otherwise you'll be fighting compression artifacts of any defects you hadn't got round to.

LOSSLESS compression, such as Monkeys Audio, FLAC and others are, of course, ok!
 
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dara

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Thanks Guys I'll look into these suggestions.

MP3Pro highest bitrate is 96. The reviews I have read suggest that this is equivalent too normal MP3 at 192.

Cool Edit has been purchased by Adobe and is being sold at Adode prices. Not worth it.

Never heard of Monkeys FLAC etc so will let gooogle do the talking and check them out.

Thanks again
 
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LTR12101B

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It's the same as the argument over JPG for photo's - if you use a lossy format while working on it and resaving, you compound compression loss.


You won't be impressed by the compression available in any of the lossless ones though - I don't think any of them even achieve 50% - but they do it with NO loss at all - while throwing WAV files into your average ZIP program is next to useless.

PS. For Nero, these should allow you to work directly from a variety of formats, including several lossless
http://neroplugins.cd-rw.org/

Monkeys, FLAC, LPAC, Optimfrog, Shorten, WavPack - all lossless!
 
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Duracell

Duracell

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dara said:
MP3Pro highest bitrate is 96. The reviews I have read suggest that this is equivalent too normal MP3 at 192.
Click to expand...
no never ever, this is only a commercials "promise";


Greetings from
Duracell
 
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scarecrow

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MP3pro is very good for recording the Sundays sermons on AM radio, and hardly more than that... Output is flawed by nature with innumerable artifacts.
If you don't want to use MP3 you can use an opentype mpeg4 variant, for example the superb Musepack (.mpc) compression format.
Recording+ burning from LP to CD can be either very easy or very laborous, depending on your quality standards. Nero is very close to the bottom of the Q scale. In fact from the "all-in-one" burning solutions only WinOnCD does a decent (not great, but acceptable...) job regarding the aforementioned task.
 
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