Vinyl Conversion Status Report
Category: Music...
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004 at 10:36 PM [GMT-6]

I know you've been wondering how my vinyl music digitizing project has been coming, so here's a quick status report.

First, I quickly discovered that I could cut one step from my original process, where I was using CD Spin Doctor to record the LP to AIFF format, then using Sound Studio to edit the resulting file before burning it to CD. As it turns out, Sound Studio will also do the initial capture to AIFF.

I've managed to digitize ten LPs; at this rate, I'll be through in about eight years. But, there's no real hurry (other than trying to finish within my natural lifespan). I seem to have picked an eclectic group of albums, spanning about two decades. Here's the list, in alphabetic order:

  • 1999 - Prince

  • Brass Impact - Warren Kime and orchestra

  • Briefcase Full of Blues - Blues Brothers

  • Keep On Movin' - Butterfield Blues Band

  • Little Criminals - Randy Newman

  • Live at Leeds - The Who

  • Machine Head - Deep Purple

  • New City - Blood, Sweat & Tears

  • Tarkio - Brewer & Shipley

  • Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds

Some of this music has stood the test of time better than others. I had forgotten how pretentious Prince could be back then. OTOH, the Warren Kime instrumental album can still send chills up my spine; the dynamic range on this 60s LP is amazing.

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MACHINE HEAD!?!?!

[holding up both hands with devil-horns] D00D -- U rawk!

Posted by: Scott Chaffin at May 28, 2004 07:21 AM

Hey, I wasn't always a mild-mannered, boring, elevator-music blogger. Why, I once had hair down to, um, my collar. And I saw Sugarloaf in concert at the Ector County Coliseum. Yep, I was pretty wild, back in the day.

Posted by: Eric at May 28, 2004 08:20 AM

Brewer and Shipley???

Posted by: Wallace at May 28, 2004 10:30 AM

That's a variety of music if I have ever seen one. My fav would be the T-Birds album.

Posted by: shannon at May 28, 2004 11:10 AM

Yeah, Sugarloaf! I've digitized over 2000 songs from 45s and albums over the past three years, always with Cool Edit Pro, and removed ticks and pops as part of the process.

I had a jazz album from Randy Weston, called "Blue Moses" that had a great track called "Ifrane." Almost since I bought the album in 1977, that track had a really annoying skip. When I digitized this track for my jazz program, I took eight bars of the third verse and copied and pasted them in place of the skip. It was the first time in 25 years that I heard the song without waiting for that skip.

Good luck with the rest of the albums. I;d never be able to digitize and make CDs out of all my albums, there are way too many, LOL.

Posted by: Larry at May 28, 2004 11:50 AM

Heh. I wasn't always a boring campground blogger who listened to hayseed honky-tonk my own self. I'd like to know what seedy apartment or old girlfriend's garage my Machine Head album was left in.

Posted by: Scott Chaffin at May 28, 2004 02:55 PM

Wallace, you obviously weren't a longhaired potsmoking hippie, or you'd know all about Brewer & (One Toke Over The Line) Shipley. Never mind how I know about them.

Shannon, I hadn't listened to that T-Birds album in years, and I was surprised at how good it is.

Larry...I've gotten more complacent with my editing. I'm taking out only the really bad crackles and pops. It's too much trouble otherwise, plus it ruins the, um, ambiance.

Scott, I'm sure that there's an old hippie girlfriend somewhere still listening to Smoke on the Water and thinking of that really cool dude, ol' what's-his-face. Women are funny like that.

Posted by: Eric at May 28, 2004 03:43 PM
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