SQLGuy
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Not sure if this is the right forum. I read through the list and didn't see one that seemed to be an exact match...
I'm planning to do some LP to digital conversion, and wanted advice from others on what works.
Currently, hardware-wise, I have a decent Thorens turntable, a decent Audio Technica cartridge that does seem to go high enough and track well enough to play back CD4, a JVC CD4 decoder, and a Lafayette SQ-W decoder.
I'm planning to add a Behringer U-Phoria 404 for four channel ADC.
So, first thing: RIAA. My AV7005 prepro seems to have a decent phono section, and the CD4 unit also does phono pre, but I could also use the Behringer mic inputs and digitize raw from the cartridge, and then RIAA in the digital domain in Audacity, or similar. Any experience on digital vs. analog RIAA?
How about de-click? I will certainly want to do this as part of my workflow. Are there impulse noise reduction solutions that work on four-channel audio? If not, I'm not sure how to handle de-click for CD4. I think the U404 could digitize raw CD4, but it would be tricky, at the least, to then output the de-clicked, but not equalized, stream back to the JVC decoder at a level that it could accept (maybe with a resistor network to attenuate it). For SQ, I could certainly declick the stereo stream, and then play it back through the SQ-W and re-capture in quad from the U404... but that's a lot of AD/DA transitions. Not sure whether that's a problem or not.
Lastly there's the question of what formats are going to be easiest to work with on the digital side. I'm not sure what I need for FLAC4 authoring, and I'm also not sure whether my AV7005 can play FLAC4. Seems like FLAC4 would be needed as at least an intermediate step, though, before burning a DVD-A or DTS CD or something anyway. Any suggestions here?
Thanks,
Paul
I'm planning to do some LP to digital conversion, and wanted advice from others on what works.
Currently, hardware-wise, I have a decent Thorens turntable, a decent Audio Technica cartridge that does seem to go high enough and track well enough to play back CD4, a JVC CD4 decoder, and a Lafayette SQ-W decoder.
I'm planning to add a Behringer U-Phoria 404 for four channel ADC.
So, first thing: RIAA. My AV7005 prepro seems to have a decent phono section, and the CD4 unit also does phono pre, but I could also use the Behringer mic inputs and digitize raw from the cartridge, and then RIAA in the digital domain in Audacity, or similar. Any experience on digital vs. analog RIAA?
How about de-click? I will certainly want to do this as part of my workflow. Are there impulse noise reduction solutions that work on four-channel audio? If not, I'm not sure how to handle de-click for CD4. I think the U404 could digitize raw CD4, but it would be tricky, at the least, to then output the de-clicked, but not equalized, stream back to the JVC decoder at a level that it could accept (maybe with a resistor network to attenuate it). For SQ, I could certainly declick the stereo stream, and then play it back through the SQ-W and re-capture in quad from the U404... but that's a lot of AD/DA transitions. Not sure whether that's a problem or not.
Lastly there's the question of what formats are going to be easiest to work with on the digital side. I'm not sure what I need for FLAC4 authoring, and I'm also not sure whether my AV7005 can play FLAC4. Seems like FLAC4 would be needed as at least an intermediate step, though, before burning a DVD-A or DTS CD or something anyway. Any suggestions here?
Thanks,
Paul