Turntable Setup Help
Reply #8 – 2006-06-29 22:44:55
I'm afrad there's no secret. I record each 12" a side at a time. I then cut them up into tracks, fade in / fade out start and begining, normalise, FLAC then tag :-( There's no easy way to do it. To me, those audio samples you provided sound annoyingly-weighted to the L chan... That'd drive me nuts. Might you consider adjusting the recording gain of your R channel (if you can do so) on your audio interface whilst you're doing the recording? If the discrepancy is consistent then you can just do the adjustment once and then leave it... Use VU meters in audio software or, if you're using an Audigy card with the kX Project drivers like I am, the supplied VU meter plugin will work nicely for showing channel levels. I can also adjust each channel's gain independently or together, or set a difference and then lock it so that if I slide the faders they adjust equal amounts but stay the same distance apart (if you get me) - I'd definitely do something about it though, otherwise you'll come back to your recordings in a few months' time and think "ffs... Now I have to reedit them all, which means extracting the lossless copies, editing the WAVs, reencoding to FLAC, copying the tags over..." And yes, I've also recorded _lots_ of my D&B vinyls, and some albums (variety of styles) (300+ and counting) to FLAC so that I don't have to constantly get them in/out of sleeves, coated in dust (which abounds in my room, what do you expect? I'm a student), get my grubby fingermarks all over them which are slightly acidic too... It pains me but it's for the best, and I can't fit a deck in my car whereas the MP3 player fits ok so that's great