The Oldskool Appreciation Party - O.A.P's thread

Just go from the booth out on your mixer to the line in on your pc Asa, and use Audacity to record it, it's free, and piss easy to use.

aceberg wrote: »

I do get the vinyl recorded.As i've mentiond ther is a strong hiss somund in the back ground that i never had on my old set-up.So it basically ruins the track.Here i have a track i recored recently you'll hear the hiss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N5lItStbNc

You can get rid of background noise very easily Ace.



Don't normalise it, like he has done, in this vid.
Normalising can leave the file clipped (sometimes),
just amplify it to -0.1dB, that way it will never clip.

This video is very useful, for anyone who isn't clued in on audio recording.
It's the way i record mixes, and rip vinyl, and it's the best way to do so.

Oldtree wrote: »

I get a bad hiss on the laptop when recording if I dont unplug the laptop and run it on battery, some sort of feedback I guess

Sounds like you need a ground loop isolator, you mac's power lead mightn't be earthed.

aceberg wrote: »

Ok so i normally would use the hiss removal in cool edit.But it tends to remove a little to much for my liking and i don't want the hiss either.:D.So basically when i use the hiss this is clipping it am i correct Sean.????????

See the thing is Sean i did'nt need to normalise it as i had it set the volume or made sure that the volume would be between -3 & 0 from the begging by basically placing the needle on a section of the vinyl that would probably reach the volume peak.So if the db on the eq on cool edit went red it'd just turn the volume down on the mixer till it was between -3 & 0 if you get what i'm saying but it makes no difference to the hiss as it's still ther.

No the hiss can be background noise, which can be removed. If i file is clipped, it means that it has been recorded at too high a level, and distorts, which can't be fixed. i usually record mixes at around -10dB, the i limit them, and then i amplify them. Doing this will make your mixes sound much more professional, volume-wise. You will have a mix that is very high in volume, and still very clear and crisp sounding. All you need to do, to get rid of the hiss is. Leave a gap at the start of the track, where it will be just hiss and background noise. Then when the file is recorded, you highlight the area at the start that is just hiss, and "get the sound profile" of it. Then you highlight the entire track, and remove that noise. It's handy to do, if i was there with you now, i could show you, but obviously i'm not lol

Ant C wrote: »

Still actually called "C" by some of the old boys alright but now all growed up so the old nickname is lost "to the oldskool".

It's great that we can share the knowledge like this, lads. Nice one for getting Asa sorted Sean. Makes me miss the oul decks though:mad:

Never give up my decks man, i use traktor now, with timecoded vinyl, to preserve my record collection. It would be a right pain in the hoop, and very expensive, to replace nearly 4000 records

Ant C wrote: »

I still have all of my records, I wasn't prepared to part with them!!!!!!!!! Just had to sell the decks at the time:(

How does your set up work exactly mate?

Selling records, is a huge mistake!

I have a Mac, on that is a program called Traktor, which is basically a virtual DJ software. You get timecoded vinyl, which have nothing on them, and when you play them without a track loaded onto one of the decks in the software, you get a high pitched squeal from them (at a very low level of course). Basically you play all your digital files, from your computer, on your turntables, and control them with the timecoded vinyls, like you would a regular vinyl record.

Just seen this, over on the dnb thread. Love Omni Trio's stuff, some really awesome tracks they've released, and this is no exception!



And of course, i can't post about Omni Trio, without posting this compete classic as well



What a tune, still sends shivers down my spine, to this day!

Ant C wrote: »

Cheers mate, looks like an excellent set up.

Gonna look into this.

How technology has progressed over the years is just amazing.

Still I won't miss lugging a big back of records around. Remember those days:pac::pac::pac:

Yeah, that was a pain! I just burn cd's mostly these days, and use cdjs, when they're available. Most of my mates have them anyway, so any parties or anything, i just bring a cd wallet with me, that i don't have to worry about. Used to be a melt, bringing all your vinyl to parties, and having to look after them and make sure none went missing etc. Dead handy having cdjs these days, if the wallet goes missing, i only need to buy a new wallet, all the tunes are still on my hard drive, so happy days in that respect

es-cee wrote: »

Yeah, that was a pain! I just burn cd's mostly these days, and use cdjs, when they're available. Most of my mates have them anyway, so any parties or anything, i just bring a cd wallet with me, that i don't have to worry about. Used to be a melt, bringing all your vinyl to parties, and having to look after them and make sure none went missing etc. Dead handy having cdjs these days, if the wallet goes missing, i only need to buy a new wallet, all the tunes are still on my hard drive, so happy days in that respect

Yeah, dunno how many times I came back from a session with my record back a bit "lighter" and all in the wrong sleeves. First 20 mins of the imx and I'd be really precious about putting the right records in the right sleeves then after that I would just give up and lash them back in anywhere!!

Still, also ended up with a few stray records in the bag so its swings and roundabouts really!!

nice piano indeed..