Blathering on and on

[guest27]

Just sat here blasting my ears off with The (Southern Death) Cult....

For Chrimbo No1 son wanted 2112 on CD and The Boss wanted a load of stuff on a CD and tape, so I needed to get vynyl into the Mac - spent out good money on a Griffin iMic from fleabay.

Well what can I say - a couple of hours re-arranging the 'office' and soldering up some cables and I can play the iTunes out through the NAD amp and get all thet vinyl and CCassette into iTunes.  What a wonderful toy, and the Final Vinyl SW with it seems to work well.  Found an Aussi academic site with a shareware vinyl click remover - works great.  Ripped apart an old Kenwood cassette player that the previous people here left behind for the RSA sockets and the motor and flywheel are going into an arrow painting lathe.

Down side was I discovered my cassette player had died on me and I have had to get a replacement - still fleabay and a local guy sorted that for a few quid.

Bloke who borrowed some fibreglass and an ally tank from me a while back - contacted me to ask for details of the K4 frame - and in return for the lend of the fairings and some time measuring the K4 frame he is going to give me a complete set of K4 glass and a tank - not bad huh - visit his site here - if you need some classic glass etc... Particulaly like his 'new' toy...

OK SDC have just finished need to do something I am sure..

R

[mini-thumper]

Hello Rog
During a visit to my brother-in-law last week I was given his entire vinyl collection - 200+ albums & thousands of singles. Vast range of styles but mostly from the late 60's and 70's (Bolan, Bowie, Stones, Lou Reed etc.). He has asked in return that I 'copy' some of them onto CD for him, and as a result I bought a SoundLab USB turntable. Unfortunately it doesn't come with any suitable software. Is the one you mentioned available commercially, and is it any good? I assume, possibly wrongly, that the 'conversion' process is fairly simple, is that correct?

Any help/pointers would be appreciated.

Boyd 

[Bill Rutter]

Dolphin Music do the iMac online for £20.99 +p&p

see here:http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/9326

[guest27]

Hi
Final Vinyl is real easy to use - it collects the sound input and saves it as a file that you can then just load into iTunes or cut up into tracks etc - found this less time consuming than sitting there waiting to hit the 'button'.  There are options like an equaliser too.  This came with the iMic (£15 ebay) but I am sure it can be got from other places (ahem you have an email address?).  Click Repair was a shareware download from the net - it wants $AU40 to keep it running after 21 days, and having trialed it with some suitable music - a well scratched Bach piano set etc, plus more rocky stuff - that you loose the clicks in - I have to admit that my money will be winging its way soon.  It took about an hour to do the Bach - mind I had set it to maximum click and scratch removal and the record was knackered, and am really impressed with the result - I could do a before and after file if you wish - and with things like my abused Cult album it took less time to de-click that it does to play.

Cannot remember the website off hand - but will post it after Christmas if you wish.

R

[guest27]

Also - as I was driving along the M4 - I thought - you silly bugger Key - Click Repair is a Mac software...

R