Where were you when vinyl died?

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benw

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yeah i also have that problem, whether ripping vinyl or recording a mix... very strange.
 
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crackerjack

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Where was I? In London, about two weeks after moving down here, deciding that while I could justify 3 record racks, ranging from moderate to massive, a further 8 boxes cluttering up every square inch of my new bedroom wsa a bit much. Not long after that, I started getting more pleasure from selling records than buying them. Vinyl hasn't died for me, but it's been relatively unwell ever since.
 
Dusty

Dusty

Tone deaf
I only ever dabbled in vinyl, although my dabbling was probably on the same scale as some casual vinyl collectors - a few crates worth anyway. It died for me when I filled my one bedroom flat with records and CDs, with no room for anything else.

The vinyl goes, and as I slowly ripped my thousands of CDs to FLAC I thought about selling those off as well. Then one of my 1TB drives died on me (backed up thankfully) but at that moment I realised having it all on little plastic discs in WAV format wasn't such a bad form of backup after all. Pure digital died for me that day - the CDs are now staying.
 
nomos

nomos

Administrator
I've gone through the mixer and I've gone directly through an RIAA box, and switched left and right leads on both. Same every way.
 
Woebot

Woebot

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nomos said:
What tips do people have for archiving vinyl properly?
I have my Technics, a good audio interface. Saving as 16-bit, 44khz aiffs, which is fine to my ears.
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It's ALL ABOUT the AD<>DA.

You need a great convertor. If I ever sell my record collection (like never) I'll buy some Prism kit. Prism Orpheus looks mighty tempting. Right now I have Apogee, which is brilliant. Most of the arguments in favour of vinyl crumble with good convertors.

Everybody on a Mac should buy an Apogee One/Duet. I expect its just a matter of time before Apple buy them.
 
nomos

nomos

Administrator
^^ Mmmm, I've looked at those. Good to know. I bought an NI AK-1 based on excellent reviews of the converters. Paul Meme was talking once about archiving vinyl using a wooden Grado cartridge whittled by Zen monks or something. That sounded like the way to go on the output side.
 
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gremino

Moster Sirphine
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mms

sometimes
i still buy vinyl and cds - i'm not a purist, they sound better and i don't end up deleting them or loosing them like mp3s - i need something physical there to remind me to listen to it sorta thing.
 
4linehaiku

4linehaiku

Repetitive
rwtt said:
when i first decided i needed to do this, i had to let it upload constantly for 10 days straight, but i don't notice it now as it just backs up incrementally. FWIW, i use SugarSync and it works well, that link from Blackdown is also a similar service. i hope i never have to use it and download all that stuff again, but still. it's good to know it's there! CDs are just shiny round receipts now.

(i keep meaning to blog some of my really nerdy stuff about managing digital music libraries, keeping on top of downloaded mixes etc but that would take me into territory dangerously close to my real job, which i try not to think about unless i have to.)
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Not quite as bad as I thought, though I would be more at Blackdown's level. 2 months is quite a lot of uploading. You should write that blog post though, it's quite a complicated area. I've got the storage sorted (ZFS) but haven't really found a good player / library manager. It's undeniably nerdy as fuck, but this is Dissensus.

I also always get the unbalanced channels, whether it's mixes, radio shows, or single tracks. I always assumed it was the cartridges.
 
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lazybrowndog

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i still buy plenty vinyl (anything i really like, old stuff, tempting 7"s, charity shop buys,boomkat splurges, ebay splurges, stuff where i can't stop thinking about the lovely cover staring at me through the window in underground solushn) but have sold, binned and charity shopped all but my most cherished cd's and am happy with mp3s for the house, car, headphones and Vinyl for parties etc ... vinyl sounds lovely in the living room and its so nice to just look at eh
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
People who "back up" their vinyl must have a lot of time on their hands and an abject fear of fire or flooding?
 
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gumdrops

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i still love and still buy vinyl. will always be my favourite format. only prob is when you move or when you start to run out of space. but it sounds the best (though the fact ive got old 70s speakers might have something to do with it) and better than cd (esp for certain genres imo, though everything sounds better really) and i just love having big fat slabs of vinyl around. i wish it was cheaper for new records though, and that it was easier to digitise, though tbh, i cant be bothered doing that. its easier for me to just tape it onto old tdks and use my walkman (which i still do when i tape radio sets). i dont totally know why someone would 'back up' vinyl, mp3s yeah, but records? though id hate for anything to happen to mine.

did have a moment today when my nephew was attempting to climb up on a stack of records to get onto another shelf where i thought something might happen but all was ok in the end.

see, babies could never climb up on mp3s could they? ;) :cool: :p
 
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