The full entry of Vinyl Digitalizing can be found here. Please add the possible comments there.
– The first 10 tracks are now in digital form. Whee. The first digitalized track was BT – Flaming June (BT & PvD mix).
– Grado DJ200 sound quality is amazing. I’m VERY satisfied with it. It’s worth every cent.
– Before starting to record, I tried a couple of programs:
* Sample Manager for normalizing. Very good, but very expensive. No use, sorry.
* Final Vinyl. Only for use with iGriffin products. No thanks.
* Analogue Ripper had nice features – iTunes support, track splitting etc. However, the user interface was horrible. The price, 30 dollars, was ok, but the usability was that poor that I decided not to pay.
– Finally I ended up using Audacity. The normalizing feature was very poor so no normalizing until I find a better software. Recommendations?
– As I mentioned in the comments of the previous entry, I decided to make two copies of the tracks: One .wav copy for playing and archiving purposes and .mp3 copy for portable music players and iTunes music library.
– I need a new hard drive.
One Minute Rave. Helsinki. Today. At 18:00-18:01.
Find out the place, read the rules, tell your friends and join the dance.
WEDNESDAY
8.8.2007, 22 – 04, K18, 3€ @ Rose Garden / Helsinki
CLUB ELITE – High quality summer clubbing every Wednesday.
ROSE GARDEN, Iso Roobertinkatu 10 HELSINKI.
08.08.2007 | 22.00 – 04.00 | Tickets 3 eur | Age Limit 18.
· MEKE (DI.fm, Flux, Resurrection, RAD)
· ORION (Misc Management)
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SATURDAY
11.8.2007, 23 – 04, K18 @ Ravintola Dyyni, Club Passoa / Kalajoki
:: DJ ORION
:: DJ KAASI
:: VENUE
Ravintola Dyyni, Club Passoa
Tuomipakkaintie 59, 85100 Kalajoki (Hiekkasärkät)
Tel. 08- 466 710 | >>www
:: DATE & TIME
Every Summer Saturday 2007. Open 23.00 – 04.00
:: WWW
myspace.com/sunburntheclub
Info, photos, links and charts.
Media page is now updated with a brand new YouTube integration. Happy watching!
“Renaissance” – a full-length August 2007 mix now downloadable. For tracklist and further info, check the Mixes site.
There’s one loong loong project ahead. Taking each of my vinyls on the turntable set next to my laptop, playing and recording them, normalizing the recording and tagging and archiving the mp3-files. Even if I would just record the most important records, this would take months. I was thinking to make the process a bit shorter, but I ended up having a software question in front of me.
I took the first step today and bought the cartridge which has been told to be the best one available for DJing purposes. No matter to which DJ-needle you compare Grado DJ200, the difference is huge. Check it yourself:
DJ Caro2 tested seven different DJ cartridges and recorded the test. Take a moment and listen the test. The last two loops are recorded with Grado DJ200 – the quality difference is mad. Here are the cartridges used in the test – you can hear each for about 10 sec.
Stanton 500al 1.8g (low weight)
Stanton 500al 3g
Stanton 680Hp 3g
Shure M35X 2g
Shure M44G 1.5g
Ortofon DJ E 3g
Ortofon Elektro 3g
Grado Dj200 3.4g (Technics SL-1200Mk5)
Grado Dj200 3.4g (Stanton STR8-80)
Now as I have the best possible cartridge, I would still need some good software to do as much work for me as possible. Basically the easiest and fastest way to digitalize the vinyls would be to record them to one file without breaks.
So – I need a program which will split this long audio file into separate tracks. Then I need a program which would normalize all these files as a batch.
After this is done, iTunes will take care of the wav-to-mp3 conversion and tagging.
I know there are several DJs and music lovers out there having the same project in their hands. Any software tips, hifi knowledge, experiences or opinions would be very welcome.
edit: Read further notes about the project.
I don’t know if this bug is Apple related, but it sure is a nasty one.
Let’s suppose you’re recording something on Ableton Live via your line-in. You want to check the sound via your headphones and plug the headphone jack into the line-out of your computer.
What does Ableton Live do?
It cuts a short part off from your recording. It stops recording for a short moment when the jack is plugged in. And again when you pull it off. Basically you’ll have gaps on your recording each time you want to double-check its recording quality via headphones. Crazy, isn’t it.
If you’ve read Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, you should know most of the following.
Frankie Knuckes – What is house music?
Here’s the announcement and the video of the One Minute Rave, held in Helsinki last Friday.
Did you know that the first Love Parade was organized by a group of friends, and it had a participation of less than a hundred people? And what happened… Now is your change to be a part of history in the making. Unity Posse is organizing the first ever One Minute Rave happening this Friday, that’s tomorrow (barely!). The rave will last from 18.00 to 18.01.
“Music has lost so much of its value since the Internet came along and file sharing in particular. I think the Internet is a good thing in that it’s very democratic so that a DJ in Siberia can have the same chart as someone in Berlin. But that also makes it harder to filter quality, it’s a question of finding the right filters and also how good you are, to stand out from all these millions of tracks out there.”
Top Ten 25.07.2007
01. David West – Stuck In Friendsville
02. Danceteria – Passion (HeikkiL & Mr.A remix)
03. Cirez D – Horizons
04. Winkee – 3rd Plane To Ibiza
05. Prime 33 – Burn (16 Bit Lolita’s Dub)
06. Joonas Hahmo – Together
07. P Liassi & One – Fool’s Paradise (Tyrrell Dub)
08. Slyde – High Rise
09. Jay Lumen pres. Monologue – Midnight Express (Andro dub)
10. Gregor Tresher – A Thousand Nights
>> http://orion.reaktio.net/bio.php
At the moment on Orion’s Podcast: David West (a.k.a. Antiloop, Synergy, Audioholics etc…) from Sweden shares a perfect two-hour selection of this summer’s progressive hits.
Subscribe to the podcast and download the mix.
One of the future releases on Fektive by JS 16 – Rosegarden has been picked up by Pete Tong as well as Judge Jules and got essential airplay on BBC 1 radio. They even called it the TUNE of the summer, so stay tuned for more Fektive madness.
via Fektive website.
See a video after the jump.