My New Toy for Making Vinyl Rips

For a few pounds more, you could have got this, which also records at 24/96, and on which you can do all the editing without transferring to a PC. Depends on where you want the end result files/discs, though -

Alesis Masterlink http://www.alesis.com/masterlink

Hi formbypc,

Do you know if alesis will ship this masterlink box to europe and if so the approx cost of postage and packing ?

james

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For a few pounds more, you could have got this, which also records at 24/96, and on which you can do all the editing without transferring to a PC. Depends on where you want the end result files/discs, though -

Alesis Masterlink http://www.alesis.com/masterlink

Thanks for the reply formbypc. I looked at the UK price for the Alesis and the best that I could come up with was £728 as opposed to the £269 that I paid for the Sony.

Maybe you know how the Alesis can be sourced cheaper but a difference of £459 is more than a few pounds!

Zoom H2 is also not to bad for cheap thrills. Don't know the Sony. I bet it's great as a DAP.

Hi DJ,

I have been using my M-Audio MicroTrack in the same way for a few years, and have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of what I have got.

I have played with both taking the output from my EAR pre-amp, and also taking the output from the ARO and applying equalisation to the captured wav file; which was also educational, reading and then listening to the way different companies applied EQ.

Hours of fun and learning.

M

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have played with both taking the output from my EAR pre-amp, and also taking the output from the ARO and applying equalisation to the captured wav file; which was also educational, reading and then listening to the way different companies applied EQ.

Underhill, can you provide the summary of your experience?

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have played with both taking the output from my EAR pre-amp, and also taking the output from the ARO and applying equalisation to the captured wav file; which was also educational, reading and then listening to the way different companies applied EQ.

Underhill, can you provide the summary of your experience?

I would also be interested to know how you used EQ to the captured wave files ... Thanks

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I would also be interested to know how you used EQ to the captured wave files ... Thanks

Used an audio editor such as Audacity on his PC?

I'm mostly interested in the end result -- how did the direct-capture worked against phonostage.
Putting EQ in digital domain is not a problem and I guess is as good as analogue -- at least if original bitstream has a high resolution (say 24 bit).
Now let's recall that a phonostage provides a primary amplification of MC output resulting in a much wider dynamic range of the original analogue waveform and this can be a serious point in getting more open and fluent sound comparing to direct-capture. I'm not sure how good is the input gain stage in popular ADCs and Underhill's experience may be useful.

Has anyone tried the Zoom H4n for recording from vinyl? It seems to me you could take the tape out from the preamp and hook it up to the external mic inputs on the Zoom, adjust the levels, and record your LPs all the way up to 96/24 if you want. Then move to computer or downscale to 320K for ipod. Is this doable?

Thanks