Anyone specializing in Vinyl to Digital Conversions?

[Mister K]

Does anyone know of a business in the GTA that specializes in converting vinyl recordings to digital files?

I have six albums that have never been re-released on DVD. They are old 60's Columbia Records vinyl records. Since it is not likely that Sony Music will ever dust-off the masters and redo them for what would undoubtably be considered a very, very, small market, I wondered if there was anyone would could do the conversion for me? Since the albums are 40+ years old, they would probably need to be properly cleaned and then played on professional equipment to get the best performance. I have no desire to muck around with this myself, but I would be willing to pay someone to do a professional conversion for me.

 

[Ed Thomas]

Use Google.

 

[Mister K]

I did look into this on Google. Lots of software available to do it yourself, but I am looking for a GTA-based service to do the conversion for me.

 

[shakenbake]

There are USB turntables available that plug into a computer. I would suspect that Nero or even Windows Media software could do the trick with such a turntable. Alternatively, if you have a stereo system, most computers have a Line In jack that could be connected to the preamp out from a somewhat decent stereo system. I have done it so many times that I can do it with my eyes closed.

Don't be afraid to try it out yourself.

 

[Mister K]

My thanks to both Rubmeister100 AND shakenbake for their advice. You both provided good information and I heartly thank you for your assistance.

 

[frankcastle]

There are USB turntables available that plug into a computer. I would suspect that Nero or even Windows Media software could do the trick with such a turntable. Alternatively, if you have a stereo system, most computers have a Line In jack that could be connected to the preamp out from a somewhat decent stereo system. I have done it so many times that I can do it with my eyes closed.

Don't be afraid to try it out yourself.

I would suggest going with a turntable going into your soundcard over a usb turntable since I question the quality of the stylus that it would have. But this is assuming that your stylus of your regular turntable is better.

If you do get others to do it ask what equipment they use because if it is no better than the cheap usb turntable you'd probably be able to do it yourself plus have the gear to do it again in the future if needed.

Mind you my turntable is better than my computer so I lack a soundcard with a line in.

 

[Anynym]

Further, if you are going to do it yourself (and I'd recommend that, because it really isn't worthwhile for businesses to do it for you), use a decent sound program like http://www.goldwave.com/ instead of just using the line-in and recording it without support. Take a "master" recording at a high sampling rate, and then down-sample to whatever level of compression you choose.

Although Audacity is free, and just hitting the Record button is easy, you can get a much better result with some inexpensive software.