Copying old vinyl/video to DVD or CD

[Linzi]

Michael has transferred the 7 ages of rock & the New York stuff onto DVDs for you & will be bringing them down tonight :)

Sorry Linzi, edited by me in response to this thread (http://www.ducati-upnorth.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5050) and comments that the thread had been hijacked, its only the second time I've had to do this and will only do it if I receive a complaint. Pity as I'd asked you to post that to cajole Martin to pop along and we spent half the night chatting about music with Martin bringing his old Hanoi rocks tickets but no book!! Michael

[MartinH]

Excellent! Has he any way of getting stuff from video to dvd and cassette to CD? I have a gig we once played with John Peel on cassette that I want to save before it degrades or gets lost/damaged.

[Steve748]

Excellent! Has he any way of getting stuff from video to dvd and cassette to CD? I have a gig we once played with John Peel on cassette that I want to save before it degrades or gets lost/damaged.

Would THIS (http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=96987&criteria=cassette%20to%20CD&doy=12m6)be of any use?

[MartinH]

Would THIS (http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=96987&criteria=cassette%20to%20CD&doy=12m6)be of any use?


Cheers Steve, may just purchase that. Been thinking of getting the usb turntable also advertised as I have about 1000 old lps that I wouldnt mind transferring into a digital format.

[Gizmo]

Excellent! Has he any way of getting stuff from video to dvd and cassette to CD? I have a gig we once played with John Peel on cassette that I want to save before it degrades or gets lost/damaged.

transfer video onto a DV cam corder tape and its then easy to transfer to hard disk then dvd or mpeg file...

[Gizmo]

Cheers Steve, may just purchase that. Been thinking of getting the usb turntable also advertised as I have about 1000 old lps that I wouldnt mind transferring into a digital format.

don't get the usb deck Martin, you need the input source to be as good as possible and i can't imagine the deck/arm will be up to much, better to find a good second hand deck, its easy enough to connect amp to line in ( on a mac anyway) and record from that. Roxio Spin Doctor fixes the crackles :)

[MartinH]

don't get the usb deck Martin, you need the input source to be as good as possible and i can't imagine the deck/arm will be up to much, better to find a good second hand deck, its easy enough to connect amp to line in ( on a mac anyway) and record from that. Roxio Spin Doctor fixes the crackles :)


I have a good old deck (Rega Planer 2 with RB250 arm) still in regular use. What would I need to do then take the pre amp out from my amp to my sound card?

Can we talk bout whoop hall on here?

[rockjock620]

who was the other guy who turned up? The one with the ST4 shirt I think. Sorry. :D

[Gizmo]

I have a good old deck (Rega Planer 2 with RB250 arm) still in regular use. What would I need to do then take the pre amp out from my amp to my sound card?

Can we talk bout whoop hall on here?

Ain't this what we were talking about at Whoop Hall, boring Ian to death with old music :)

I always wanted a Rega deck, they used to get good reviews, ended up with a Thorens. you should be able to take the pre amp to the amp then use the tape out into sound card, set the correct input and check your sound levels when recording. It'll create big files, 600 meg plus in aiff format you'll need to burn to cd/dvd or rip back to mp3 unless you've got a huge amount of hd space.

[MartinH]

I had a Thorens for a while but cant remember the model number, had a few old Garrards over the years but always wanted a Linn Sondek but could never afford it back then. I'm still listening through an old NAD 3020 that I bought back in about 1981.

Had a Michell Synchro turntable for a while in the mid 80s can you remember them?

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[Nige Ducati UK]

I had a Thorens for a while but cant remember the model number, had a few old Garrards over the years but always wanted a Linn Sondek but could never afford it back then. I'm still listening through an old NAD 3020 that I bought back in about 1981.

Had a Michell Synchro turntable for a while in the mid 80s can you remember them?

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I've still got my old Linn LP12 - Valhalla and a Rega Plannar 3, both boxed somewhere I haven't seen either of them since I moved house 5 years ago.

The Linn cost more more than the ret of Hi Fi put together - it sounded awesome

[MartinH]

Nige, tell you what I will do you a favour. They are next to worthless now with CD and MP3 etc etc etc. £200 for the pair of em? Take em of you hands/clear the loftspace/keep the missus happy and all that. Deal?

[Nige Ducati UK]

Nige, tell you what I will do you a favour. They are next to worthless now with CD and MP3 etc etc etc. £200 for the pair of em? Take em of you hands/clear the loftspace/keep the missus happy and all that. Deal?


Errm!! Take a look out of your window, and check out the squadron of razorbacks flying by.....:D

[Steve748]

Rega (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rega-Planar-3-RB300-EXCELLENT-CONDITION_W0QQitemZ320120153329QQihZ011QQcategoryZ48648QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)and LP12 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LINN-SONDEK-LP12-LINN-BASIK-LVX-TONEARM-K9-VALHALLA_W0QQitemZ250123972020QQihZ015QQcategoryZ3283QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem):eek:

[Nige Ducati UK]

Rega (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rega-Planar-3-RB300-EXCELLENT-CONDITION_W0QQitemZ320120153329QQihZ011QQcategoryZ48648QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)and LP12 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LINN-SONDEK-LP12-LINN-BASIK-LVX-TONEARM-K9-VALHALLA_W0QQitemZ250123972020QQihZ015QQcategoryZ3283QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem):eek:


Yep, almost identical to both of these but in better condition....judging by the pictures on flea-bay....

....and, No they are not for sale. :)

[Gizmo]

i always wanted an LP12, could never afford it then and now i've got no vinyl :)

Rega/NAD3020 was all the hifi mags system of choice on a budget with /linn LP 12 and itok/Naim the best system in every test. i ended up with a TD160S deck, rega arm, and AR cambridge A60 amp, mission speakers, nice but not Linn :(

[Nige Ducati UK]

I have LP12 / Ittok / Valhalla - Amp was Musical Fidelity A1 which was replaced by Arcam Delta 290 (which i still have) and an Arcam Delta 290 power amp (which i don't have now) - Celestion Ditton 44 Speakers - now have Mission speakers and a Marantz CD63SE CD player

The Rega went with the MF A1 amp and Tannoy Bookshelf speakers in my office.

still have all my Vinyl (200 or so albums) in boxes. plus a load of CD's

I now want one of these http://www.fat-man.co.uk/docs/product/itube_1.htm, for convience. They do sound rather good....:)

[Gizmo]

nice find on that valve amp for an ipod, quality :)

sold all my vinyl at same time as my hifi sadly, should have kept it but didn't realise i'd miss it and TBH it is very rare i listen to old tunes. my ears are going anyway so i don't appreciate good hifi, Harmon Kardon Sound sticks attached to mac does for most stuff, occasionally steam it to the Denon/Mission system which rarely plays CD's :(

[MartinH]

Musical Fidelity A1 was something else I always wanted, rather liked the A2 in gloss (piano?) black as well. Nearly bought a shop soiled one cheap years ago. Still have my mission 753 speakers but could do with something a little more powerful than my old 3020 to drive them. Still like playing vinyl when I can as theres something about the sound. I remember rushing out and buying one of the first sony DAT machines years ago as I was convinced that it would be the format everyone would use in a few years. How wrong was I? Back then I just could not imagine the day when you would have CDs that you could record onto!? DAT was good though as in the band we could make good quality digital live recordings with just 2 mics and the dat recorder.

[Nige Ducati UK]

The A1 was great, if a little tempremental. The waffle plate top used to get so hot you could griddle a steak on it :eek: but the sound was superb.

I'm convinced that my Linn / MF / Mission combo could outperform a modern CD / MP3 Set up in terms of sound. The imaging and soundstage was just mindblowing.

Technology amazes me. If someone had said to me 20 years ago that I could carry all of my music around on a device smaller than a fag packet I'd have thought them crazy. :confused:

I didn't buy an I-pod, never could follow fashion. I have a Samsung K3, still can't work the thing properly.....

[Gizmo]

I remember rushing out and buying one of the first sony DAT machines years ago as I was convinced that it would be the format everyone would use in a few years. How wrong was I? Back then I just could not imagine the day when you would have CDs that you could record onto!? DAT was good though as in the band we could make good quality digital live recordings with just 2 mics and the dat recorder.

i had a reel to reel recorder and got my first cassette recorder just in time to record Peel playing the pre release version of Diamond Dogs, copied that tape about 10 times and sold it at school :) look at what you can do with a mac laptop now, the 1 Giant Leap cd was recorded solely on one, less than 2K for a mobile studio, mad.




Technology amazes me. If someone had said to me 20 years ago that I could carry all of my music around on a device smaller than a fag packet I'd have thought them crazy. :confused:

I didn't buy an I-pod, never could follow fashion. I have a Samsung K3, still can't work the thing properly.....

Some of us didn't follow fashion, we were ahead of it :), bought my click wheel 1st gen 5 gig one about an hour after i landed in US a few months after they were released, used itunes or soundjam as it was before Apple bought it as my mp3 ripper since about 95 or 96. problem is you can have too much music stored, got 1300 albums on this computer and can never decide what to play :)

[Nige Ducati UK]

. problem is you can have too much music stored, got 1300 albums on this computer and can never decide what to play :)

That's a familiar thought ;)