Creating digital copies of cherished analog recordings is a useful skill to have. Not only does it make listening to your collection easier, but you're preserving the original medium by causing less wear over time.
Many modern turntables are already equipped with digital interfaces for this precise reason. Other setups will require some additional hardware, but none of it is beyond the reach of the vinyl hobbyist.
So let's run through the process of recording and cleaning up your vinyl recordings.
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Seaton Dubman
Posted on May 4th, 2018
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Eric McCarty.
My neighbor, JT, is seven feet tall. Or close to it.
His dog, Mia, is 10 inches high at the spikiest hair on her pointiest ear. Or close to it.
JT and I have been neighbors for almost two decades. Telephone-pole JT and Mia the Mini stroll the streets every day on his lunch break. Quite a pair. Mia takes 47 steps for every Ent-like JT stride.
A couple of years ago, I asked JT if I could borrow his ax and maul to split some wood. (See #4 below.) H...
Seaton Dubman
Posted on March 30th, 2018
Have you ever unexpectedly found yourself with a snatch of time in which to steal a nap? You tried to settle into the chair or nook in which you found yourself, closed your eyes, and then . . . you just sat there, drowsy but awake. Despite feeling quite tired, you couldn’t fall asleep, and soon the time was up before you had gotten in so much as a wink. Talk about frustrating! Not only did you not get to nap, you didn’t do anything else either; if you weren’t going to fall asleep, you could have done som...
Seaton Dubman
Posted on March 21st, 2018
Studies show that people remember the beginning of something, and the end of it, the best. The middle of it is recalled a little more hazily.
Once a novel experience starts, your brain really starts focusing on what’s going on and quickly makes judgements about the new people you meet. And you clearly remember the last part of an experience, because it ends up being the freshest in your memory.
Given this phenomenon, people understandably spend a lot of time thinking about how to make a great first imp...
Seaton Dubman
Posted on March 17th, 2018
Whether youve been taking photos for one year or 10 years the chances are you have a huge unwieldy photo library that is in desperate need of attention. Thats just the nature of shooting digital. Cleaning up your existing photo library will be a chore but there are plenty of mistakes you can avoid when organizing new photos in order to maintain a neat and ordered collection.
1. You Leave Your Photos on Your SD Card
You spend the day taking photos you come home you're exhausted and you tell yourself...
Seaton Dubman
Posted on March 14th, 2018
Copyright infringement is one of the biggest problems of the internet age. Never before has it been easier to infringe on intellectual property rights, and never before has it been harder to prevent others from stealing one’s hard work. As a creator, you need to protect your intellectual property: photographers should copyright photos and images, software developers should use proper software licenses, bloggers should issue DMCA takedown notices, etc. But that can be quite a headache, especially if you’r...
Seaton Dubman
Posted on March 12th, 2018
It seems that everyone Googles these days. After all, it is a top search engine. And with that, Google offers some enhanced search features that can be very helpful in finding what you need easier and faster. Here are a few basic and not-so-basic ways that you can use those extra Google Search features. How to Search on Google Performing a search on Google is pretty straightforward. But, many don’t realize just how many Google Search options exist. Google Basic Search Searching on Google doesn’t get any ...
Seaton Dubman
Posted on March 5th, 2018
