Sample workflow for LP digitization

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This tutorial outlines a set of steps that can be used to digitize LPs with Audacity, ready for CD creation or loading into a digital jukebox or portable music player.

It is not the only way of working, there are many alternatives. Like any recipe it can be adapted to suit your personal needs.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Please note that this page is currently under construction - please bear with me for a few days while I work on it.

Draft content

I work with Audacity set with Project Rate = 44.1kHz sample format 32-bit floating (the Audacity default.

  1. Clean the LP
  2. Check the levels
  3. Capture side<n> in Audacity
  4. Mark the approximate label points while recording - place cursor at point required and click [b]CTRL+B[/b]
  5. Export a single WAV for side<n> at 32-bit float
  6. Leave the Audacity project open
  7. Remove clicks and pops. Process this file through the ClickRepair software, it returns a 32-bit float WAV file with cr appended to its file name (e.g. side<n>cr.WAV
  8. Return to the Audacity project and then Import the clickrepaired WAV file back into the open project.
  9. Delete the originally recorded track (use the X in the top left hand corner of the track)
  10. Click and drag the label track to below the clickrepaired track
  11. Carry on with remaining editing in Audacity: cleaning inter-track gaps, adjust label positions, possible fade-ins/outs etc.
  12. Edit the labels for songnames (I use 01 <songname-1>, 02 <songname-2> etc. as this helps keep them in the right order for CD production or loading into iTunes)
  13. I normally Use Effect > Amplify as my last editing step to bring the amplitude up to -1dB
  14. Export multiple, downsampling, to produce a set of WAV at 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM stereo files
  15. Repeat for next side of LP

You can work in AIFF rather than WAV with the ClickRepair software, the manual states this but I haven't tested this.[/i]

Links

|< Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD

Brian Davies's ClickRepair software can be accessed from here: http://www.clickrepair.net/

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