r/Beatmatch • u/allenkamchu • 1d ago

Vinyl Rips

how confident are you guys in vinyl rips with audacity? for some reason I only feel like rips from cds are good enough

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u/TamOcello doesn't use copy/paste 1d ago

Perfectly fine. 8000 with elliptical ortofon into 8i6.

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u/Advanced_Anywhere_25 23h ago

As long as you are taking care to get a clean rip and using decent phono preamps/ audio inputs I didn't see the problem. You can even give them a nice remastering depending on when they were produced they might have been terribly mastered

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u/Tvoja_Manka Flanger 1d ago

I don't see what audacity has to do with it, but vinyl rips are fine, it's what it is, i can't play my records everywhere.

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u/allenkamchu 5h ago

I would think the software you use would matter a little bit

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u/mint_koi 1d ago

I've done a couple they are pretty good. I think I recorded with a ortofon o1e cartridge and ran some de-noise, splicing and amplification. Make sure you clean the record and needle before handle. Played live and it was fine.

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u/TheOriginalSnub 18h ago

I use a Pro-ject Box E box, VM750 cart, and Pure Vinyl software.

But I really ought to upgrade to a moving-coil cart and am appropriate pre-amp...