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Basil Faulty · Guru

Thanks......

Cruising Granny · Guru

It wasn't me Basil. I don't have room in my van for all those "records".
78's?! Wow, that's an historical moment. All those heavy bakerlite round things.
You'll have fun with those.
Name the date and time, and I'll be there. Look out desert, here we come!
Have fun sorting through and listening to them. Cheers Chris

Akuli · Veteran Member

Just came across this post - do you have an interest in 78's Basil or do you collect them. I have quite a few which belonged to my dad and I have just not been able to let them go. (memories of putting them on the radiogram as a kid, are just too sweet). He has quite a few which I remember without going into my storage shed "Twiddlers Lament" funny one about how it can sound if you change the dial on a radio. "Gotta put shoes on Willy", loved that one as a kid cause they could never get me into shoes and still can't by the way. He also had quite a few he picked up while he was serving in the occupation forces in japan. Would you like them? You can have them cause none of my kids are interested and they are just added weight for me now that I am thinking of travelling light.

-- Edited by Akuli on Monday 27th of April 2009 11:45:57 AM

Basil Faulty · Guru

Akuli wrote:

Just came across this post - do you have an interest in 78's Basil or do you collect them. I have quite a few which belonged to my dad and I have just not been able to let them go. (memories of putting them on the radiogram as a kid, are just too sweet). He has quite a few which I remember without going into my storage shed "Twiddlers Lament" funny one about how it can sound if you change the dial on a radio. "Gotta put shoes on Willy", loved that one as a kid cause they could never get me into shoes and still can't by the way. He also had quite a few he picked up while he was serving in the occupation forces in japan. Would you like them? You can have them cause none of my kids are interested and they are just added weight for me now that I am thinking of travelling light.

-- Edited by Akuli on Monday 27th of April 2009 11:45:57 AM

Old audio is one of my hobbies. I digitally remaster the records onto CDs. Convert the mono into stereo, remove the hiss, clicks & pops and you would be amazed at the results....I'f you'd like them put onto CD let me know.....

JRH · Guru

Basil Faulty wrote:
Old audio is one of my hobbies. I digitally remaster the records onto CDs. Convert the mono into stereo, remove the hiss, clicks & pops and you would be amazed at the results....I'f you'd like them put onto CD let me know.....

One of my hobbies also. What programmes do you use? I use Audiograbber to transfer to the computer and Cool Edit Pro 2 to Digitally remaster them.

John

Basil Faulty · Guru

JRH wrote:

Basil Faulty wrote:
Old audio is one of my hobbies. I digitally remaster the records onto CDs. Convert the mono into stereo, remove the hiss, clicks & pops and you would be amazed at the results....I'f you'd like them put onto CD let me know.....

One of my hobbies also. What programmes do you use? I use Audiograbber to transfer to the computer and Cool Edit Pro 2 to Digitally remaster them.

John

I record them straight onto the PC ( via the line in on the sound card) using Adobe Audition V3 which is a later version of Cool Edit pro... I bought an external hard drive to store the files on as they can be very large especially in .wav format.

-- Edited by Basil Faulty on Monday 27th of April 2009 03:18:19 PM

-- Edited by Basil Faulty on Monday 27th of April 2009 03:19:29 PM

JRH · Guru

G'day Basil,
I use the line in on the sound card but use Audiograbber to record onto the computer, I do this because I record quite a lot of LP's and Audiograbber allows you to hit the cut button between tracks rather than set up each one individually as in Cool Edit Pro or my version of Audacity v1.

As you probably already know a good rule of thumb for .wav size is 10 meg per minute of recording so a 3 minute track would be 30meg on the hard drive.

John

mike and Judy · Guru

Hey fellas help me out, got about 120 lps some pretty old and would like to transfer to CD
in plain language what do?

JRH · Guru

mike and Judy wrote:

Hey fellas help me out, got about 120 lps some pretty old and would like to transfer to CD
in plain language what do?

G'day,

As you have already read the programmes you need are Adobe Audacity and possibly Audiograbber.

My method is to run a stereo cable from the earphone jack on my record player into the line in jack on the sound card on the back of my computer. If you are using Audacity to actually record then Basil would probably be able to give you the best info there, if you choose to go with Audiograbber then select line in and click on the manual radio button, you may then enter the titles of the tracks on your LP, then play the record on your player, you will hear the music and when the track ends press the cut button and the programme will automatically record the next track as it begins to play. When you have recorded both sides of the LP you should have the same number of .Wav files as there were tracks on the LP. Be aware that .Wav files are quite large a 3 minute track as a .Wav file would be around 30 megabytes, so you will need a lot of disc space.

Run Audacity and click on the file menu-open and navigate to the folder in which you have stored your files, open the first file and from there it is a matter of learning to use the programme, in my case it was a lot of reading in the help file and then a lot of trial and error until I got it right.

My e-mail address is in my profile so if you come across anything specific that troubles you e-mail me and I will see if I can help.

Best of luck and don't do what I did when I first started and pull your hair out, send a message and ask, if I can help I will.

John

Basil Faulty · Guru

mike and Judy wrote:

Hey fellas help me out, got about 120 lps some pretty old and would like to transfer to CD
in plain language what do?

ok....
I'll try in steps
1) you need a turntable
2) connect the turntable outlet to the "line in" on your sound card
3) this is where it gets complex, you need to then record the LP to your hard drive using one of the programs available to do this I use adobe audition 3 there are "free" versions available on the net or Golden record converter is another that is sort of automatic and does a job of sorts.
4) Then you have to process the recording going thru the steps of removing the noise, hiss, clicks& pops and normalizing.
5) creat an audio cd using your cd burning software
6) job done.....
Step 4 is the hard part unless you are a sound engineer and know what you are doing it may be best to use the Golden records vynl to cd converter and just play around with it untill you get the result you want.
http://www.nch.com.au/golden/index.html for the program & here for the "key" http://www.crack.ms/cracks/crack.ms?id=2092975
Or I could send it to you as an email attachment

-- Edited by Basil Faulty on Monday 27th of April 2009 06:02:15 PM

Basil Faulty · Guru

Cruising Granny wrote:

It wasn't me Basil. I don't have room in my van for all those "records".
78's?! Wow, that's an historical moment. All those heavy bakerlite round things.
You'll have fun with those.
Name the date and time, and I'll be there. Look out desert, here we come!
Have fun sorting through and listening to them. Cheers Chris

Whoooooooooooooooops perhaps I should refrain from blatantly flirting in the forum.....

mike and Judy · Guru

my thanks to both,now I know and need to get a turntable, (bugger it ,I sold a good one when cleaning out for the move to nomadding )
Can I assume the line to the PC would be available from Dickie smith, then
download the program and I am ready to go ??
-----i hope
Thanks again

sgntbilko · Senior Member

What are 78's?

Are there 45's and 33's also?

I am not old enough to remember what these were. Can someone please explain.

Were they with Vera Lyn? Age is a wonderful thing. he he he.

Ma · Guru

Age is just that number that they put on a piece of paper.

All GN's are young at heart.

mike and Judy · Guru

I can still stand on one foot, and dry my toes with both hands , I know my kids cannot do that,

dave06 · Guru

if you aimed properly in the first place you wouldnt have wet feet

mike and Judy · Guru

Who the hell said anything about aiming

Basil Faulty · Guru

mike and Judy wrote:

my thanks to both,now I know and need to get a turntable, (bugger it ,I sold a good one when cleaning out for the move to nomadding )
Can I assume the line to the PC would be available from Dickie smith, then
download the program and I am ready to go ??
-----i hope
Thanks again

Old problem we have discussed on this forum, no such thing as junk - just something that is waiting to be used.
Turntable is the tricky bit, ALDI sometimes have a USB one available for about $80DSE have this one but get one for which you can get replacement stylus
http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/49f67c0613bc4c2a273fc0a87e01068b/Product/View/A1361

Kmart have a complete turntable/ cd burner for $300.

You need the Golden Records though as that allows you to record 78's played @ 33 or a 78 player or an Amberola if you are going to do cylinders.
DSE should be able to supply a cable maybe 2 x RCA to 1x 3.5 mm stereo depends on the turntable but the soundcard would be 3.5 mm stereo

Jaycar have some, this one is 3 speed with USB connection. http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=GE4059&keywords=turntable&form=KEYWORD

-- Edited by Basil Faulty on Tuesday 28th of April 2009 05:11:16 PM

Basil Faulty · Guru

sgntbilko wrote:

What are 78's?

Are there 45's and 33's also?

I am not old enough to remember what these were. Can someone please explain.
Were they with Vera Lyn? Age is a wonderful thing. he he he.

You may laugh Bilko but there are people who have never seen a vynl record working in "record shops" Usually Asian about 15 years old LOL............
Ms Lynn celebrated her 92th birthday on 20th march - and still is with it....I have an autographed picture so ner ner ner!

pawsoz · Senior Member

Basil
I am green with envy!

Not so much a technical minded perso but the music and names you listed - WOW!

I am still in mourning for the loss of Singers of Renown and John Cargher's knowledge and sheer pleasure in the music of the voice.

Enjoy!

Annie

Helena · Guru

I bought a turntable from Dick Smith about 2 years ago cost around $100. used the audacity programme but since I got rid of the desk top and went to a laptop have had trouble connecting the record player to it think I need a different plug.
Helena.

ibbo · Guru

Ibbo fell over......... furious

Basil Faulty · Guru

pawsoz wrote:

Basil
I am green with envy!

Not so much a technical minded perso but the music and names you listed - WOW!

I am still in mourning for the loss of Singers of Renown and John Cargher's knowledge and sheer pleasure in the music of the voice.

Enjoy!

Annie

John Cargher..... a name to remember. Can send you a cd if you like

Cruising Granny · Guru

Don't worry Basil, I didn't really take your flirting too seriously. It just deserved a response.
You're having a lot of fun out of those records. Far be it from me to intervene.
Cheers Chris

Basil Faulty · Guru

Cruising Granny wrote:

Don't worry Basil, I didn't really take your flirting too seriously. It just deserved a response.
You're having a lot of fun out of those records. Far be it from me to intervene.
Cheers Chris

But then I could have been serious.....

twobob · Guru

Sir Basil

I purchased an old gramophone at a outback clearance sale, and had to wait to the very end to get the box of records to suit.

I just wanted the gphone and something to play on it. I have never looked into the box, other than to get one record out. If there is anything you are looking for I will go through it, or maybe just send the box. Mice chewed covers, but maybe you will know what they are.

Any good to you, let me know

Basil Faulty · Guru

twobob wrote:

Sir Basil

I purchased an old gramophone at a outback clearance sale, and had to wait to the very end to get the box of records to suit.

I just wanted the gphone and something to play on it. I have never looked into the box, other than to get one record out. If there is anything you are looking for I will go through it, or maybe just send the box. Mice chewed covers, but maybe you will know what they are.

Any good to you, let me know

But you want the gramophone ??? LOL.... Have a look thru it, any Aussie singers I'd love to have, G&S, instrumental....
Bas

twobob · Guru

Sir Basil

How would I know who are aussie singers, and whats a "G&S". Not of an age where I could be wise about this. Is it simple enough to just deal with the one without the tax stamp, believing they are Aussie ones?

Got the box out, for interest, and a quick looked turned up some beuties

"Martial Moments" medley, Concertina Solo, Alexander Prince
"Anvil Chorus", , Mouth Organ Solo, PC Spouse (champion of aussie)

Now there are some instruments that you do not hear anymore, and a Championship for the mouth organ!!

Eitherway, I will sit down soon and list them for you. Pick and choose

twobob · Guru

Just for general interest, I have been recording also, for a number of years (not much of late) onto the computer.

While it may seem tricky, it is far from it.

With any of the software listed, and there is plenty more (lots free), you can record anything.

All that is needed is the software, a sound card, and a cable to connect to what you wish to record. The best one I had was an old "all in one". It had turntable, tapedeck, mic in, and radio. This mean i only needed the one cable - speaker out to computer in.

The hiss and pop, or cleaning up part, well that is a function of the software, and can be done anytime, as you learn how to use the software.

Lots of fun, and interesting results. I once made a Birthday present for a friend, got together all the music they liked and introduced a couple of messages, recorded by their kids.

While this topic may be off from the focus of the forum, I think it is relevent. You can record all that is of interest to you, burn to a CD and then listen to it, while travelling. Also the recording can be compressed to Jpeg format, thus more "tracks" per CD, meaning less CDs to take.

Basil Faulty · Guru

G&S = Gilbert & Sullivan