Need help with recording Vinyl

[Guest Anonymous]

Hello,

I was wondering what anyone would recommend, I want to put my vinyl on CD, I already have a Sony CD burner, the problem with that is when a track gets quite it starts a new track, I can not put the record level too high or it will fuzz out. I used to have a portable MD recorder/player and when I recorded vinyl with that it was easy to edit out the track marks that I didn't want. So my question is, what is the best stereo component MD player/recorder that has a optical output and has those nice editing abilities. The second question that I have is, if i record a MD onto a CD through the optical line will it also take the same track marks or just do what it wants as usual. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

_will_

[Guest Anonymous]

You intend to record to MD, and then upload it to computer? I think a better solution would be to record directly to your computer, or to burn to the CD's and then bring the CD's to your computer to edit them. MD's use 5:1 compression on the music, and you'll get better sound, save yourself a step, and save yourself money, by buying a soundcard with a digitial in. I don't think it's smart to keep an LP collection in MD, because maybe in 8 years, when your MD player breaks, it won't be so easy to replace it.

The Sony MDS-JE780 is an MD deck with digitial outs. It's $460 on minidisco, although I'm sure other stores and EBay will have them cheaper. Most home decks don't have digital out, so check that before buying.

Anyway, your CD burner should have the option to stop automatic track-marking, instead marking it with the press of a button.

[BJ]

If you do still go ahead with the LP->MD transfer, check your MD manual. There should be a way to disable automatic track marks, or to record manually like a tape deck--that would put you in control of all the starts/stops and track marks.