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Old 20-11-2004, 19:03   #1
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The proper deck

Well, I finally got round to it, I've been promising myself for quite a number of years now that I would drag my record player out of the spare room & get it set up down in the living room (lounge for those of you on 50K or more per annum).

Like every-one else of my age the idea was to get all those albums that I haven't heard for years transferred to mp3 format on my p.c. just so that I could hear them again.

I won't bore you with the artists I am listening to, after all they are part of my memories not yours. Suffice it to say that I have not got as far as transferring them,because one of the bonuses of searching out my old equipment was coming across a pair of real & proper bins, not your mamby pampby little earphones covered in pieces of foam that leave all around you listening to ctcha, chtca, scrape, scrape scratch, scratch. No, I'm talking about a decent set from the late sixties early seventies that would block off every sound prior to you actually putting music through them & once you've turned the volume up to full will treat your ears to the heat of an 850w micro-wave.

O.K. I can imagine you saying (at the moment I would have to lip read), so get things transferred & use this retro-kit with your P.C. but no, I have decided that if I was to transfer my (& they ARE my), sounds over to the P.C. I would also have to remove the rumbles, the scritch, scritch between tracks & the Oh, yes that scratch that was from when we were all pi**ed that night and some-one used this L.P. as a frisby.

So now whilst I am frying whats left of my sanity in a large portion of nostalgia all I can say is I love my juke box & the many tracks I have on my P.C. but all the old rumbles & scratches are each one an individual memory & I will keep them as they are.


Just one last thing, Roy now that you no longer do your D.J. thing can I have the rest of my record collection back please? For some reason I would like to listen to my 45's as well.

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Old 20-11-2004, 19:11   #2
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Re: The proper deck

How do you (I mean you personally Less) go about transferring from vynil to PC? It's a long winded process chez Whisp.
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Old 20-11-2004, 19:19   #3
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How do you (I mean you personally Less) go about transferring from vynil to PC? It's a long winded process chez Whisp.
I could tell you Willow & although it isn't that difficult, I won't, (yesterday I would have done), all I can say is nature put those scratches in the records who are we to play God & take them out?

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Old 20-11-2004, 20:01   #4
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How do you (I mean you personally Less) go about transferring from vynil to PC? It's a long winded process chez Whisp.
Just for you willow, (so if your name isn't willow stop reading this). Computer Active Issue 175 has a very good article on how to do it, they also have a very good web site, everything in plain English, http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ O.k. Computeractive there is your plug now how about a review of accyweb?

If you can't find a copy/back copy from them I will gladly lend (lend meaning not on a permenent basis) you my copy o.k.?


this might also help it's from the howstuffworks site seems like a few free downloads etc see what you think, http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php
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Old 21-11-2004, 00:42   #5
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I shall have a read of those when my brain is awake.

My method involves a machine upstairs which is not connected to a machine downstairs neither of which are connected to my PC, so also involves a certain amount of to-ing and fro-ing with discs and the like.
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