hi,

i'm curious as to whether there is a proper order for the workflow i currently use for transferring my old vinyl lp & 45s to digital in soundforge.

i record at 24-bit, 88.2, my usual workflow is as follows:

1. resample to 44.1 using highest quality.
2. remove dc and rumble with waves xhum filter.
3. gentle declicking manually, then waves xclick.
4. normalize to -2 dBs.
5. dither to 16-bit using soundforge's dither (triangular, no noise-shaping).

am i doing this in the correct order? is there a correct order? should i normalize earlier in the process? is there a better way to dither?

any advice/corrections/insight would be greatly appreciated.

...looks good.

Sebi

I assume that if you can sample at 24bits 88.2KHz, you can also edit at that resolution.

You will get the highest quality if the last steps are resampling and requatizing/dithering.

Anyway if you want to keep the highest attainable quality for the future, I'd never reduce the quality to 16bits /44.1KHz for storing.

Do not forget to apply a filter before resampling in order to avoid additional aliasing.

Regards,
Oki