Recording from vinyl.

[hawkeye]

This has probably been done to death on other posts but here goes.
I have double LP of The Story of the Who, it has been played just three times since i first got it in the mid 70's. They were all made to tape and long since gone. I want to make a digital recording to put on my USB stick for use in my car. I will be making the recording on my Mac with Audacity. The actual connection from turntable to Mac is not that easy in that i have to get a USB to Phono adapter, thats on it's way.
I know that the recording may well sound bad as there will be all kinds of noise picked up, this can be cleaned in Audacity though i am not sure what the end results will be like. I have done this on a PC with excellent results.
What i would like the know is whats the best bit rate to use, i'm not worried about size of files as i will convert the files later to MP3 for ease of use.

 

[Sergeauckland]

Use 32bit float as you'll be manipulating the files to clean them up, then reduce them to 16 bit with dither once you're satisfied with the result.

I would sample at 44.1kHz as this gives you the option to burn to CD without necessitating any sample-rate-conversion. LP doesn't have anything above 20kHz except noise, so there's no point in sampling higher than 44.1kHz.

If you've already done this on a PC, then you should be familiar with the noise-reduction process. I've done a few myself, and have found it's best to treat lightly, as a little noise is better than the artefacts created by excessive noise reduction. Clicks are a lot easier to deal with.

S.

 

[Henry's Cat]

I've had good results recording master FLAC files using a 96KHz sampling rate at 24bit resolution. I use some excellent software called Vinyl Studio to clean up the recordings and then output the result to 48KHz 24 bit FLAC files for playback.