Sold Date: December 17, 2015
Start Date: November 17, 2015
Final Price: £14.99 (GBP)
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Just send me your LP and I will transcribe it for you and return it with a CD-R accessable on any CD player.

LP to CD, analogue to digital, transcription service. I do not use any noise reduction as this can spoil the intensity of the performance so there will be a little residual vinyl roar and the occasional static tick. However, as this is a PCM WAV file you can edit it yourself if you have the required software and lots of time.

Recorded at 16bit resolution 44.1kHz sampling rate and converted to CD PCM WAV files and supplied on a CD-R.

The record is cleaned on a Moth MKII wet/vacuum record cleaning machine before transcribing.

The vinyl record is transcribed through a Garrard 401 turntable on a 30mm treble layered Slatedeck type plinth with anti-vibration feet and spikes on a Sound Organisation wall mounted support, Ringmat 330 MKII, Evolution Parallel Tracking Air Bearing tonearm, Shure V15VxMR cartridge, Mullard ECC82/83 valve phono preamplifier, Chord Chameleon Silver Plus interconnects, Russ Andrews mains cables, M-Audio Audiophile 192 high quality 113db soundcard, Cool Edit Pro sound editor software. All for a neutral, uncoloured sound.

Automatic tick and hiss reduction is so, so time consuming (and will degrade the original sound) that it would probably be too costly to offer this service. Automatic noise reduction, even 0.1%, degrades the music. There is a utility on the software programme to save as a WAV file all the ticks etc. which have been automatically removed. Even with 0.1% automatic noise reduction you can still hear some of the music which has been taken out of the recording with all the ticks, hiss etc. Therefore automatic noise reduction degrades the music although it may take out a lot of the unwanted noise. This is why some historic recordings available commercially sound so poor. I am not impressed with the CEDAR system of noise reduction. My system of manually noise reducing each individual tick is by far the best system I have found so far. Unfortunately this takes so much time I would have to charge a fortune for this service. Consequently, please send me an LP which is in the best condition possible to achieve the best results. As already stated it would be too costly to charge you for individually and manually correcting each click, tick and pop..

Some modern CDs have been so noise reduced and poorly remastered and do not sound as good as an original vinyl first pressing. Also, modern commercially produced CD reissues will be using master tapes which may be decades old and have deteriorated over time. An excellent condition first vinyl pressing will be as near to the original master tape as possible and will not have the audible problems in those same tapes today.

True lossless transcription. No lossy compression.

Do not be fooled by the quality of the CD recordings from USB type turntables (Eon, Teac etc) as they have inferior stylus, cartridge, tonearm, turntable, components, wiring and cabling. My replacement stylus alone costs 3 times as much as one of these CD copying turntables.

".....CD-R copies of vinyl often sound better than the remasters put out by the record companies themselves. I noticed this a while back and duly transcribed many of my LPs onto 70p CD blanks instead of paying £11.99.....with superb sound quality.There are various reasons. A first pressing of a classic, analogue LP is a frighteningly high resolution music carrier.....The upshot of this is that a decent deck playing an original pressing (taken from the original master tape) is second only to having the original master tape..... The innate warmth of an original analogue source complements digital’s coldness....." Hi-Fi World magazine.

".....Audiophiles are not really interested in a High Definition video accompaniment to their music.....therefore 2.0 channels is adequate....well mastered 24/96 stereo is more than good enough for most listeners - those who retain DVD-Audio capability can use 24/192....." Hi-Fi World magazine.

Only high quality CD-R are used. I have a computer utility to ascertain which discs are the best for recording on.

Where there are distinct gaps between the tracks on the LP then these tracks will be separated. However, where one track blends into another (eg Pink Floyd - DSOTM etc) then I can only produce a separate track for side 1 and a separate track for side 2 as it is very subjective where these tracks start and finish.

Supplied in a plain white CD envelope to reduce shipping costs.

International return shipping cost is for a package up to 500g. If the package you send me is between 500g and 750g then I will have to charge 1.50GBP extra to Europe, 2.00GBP extra to the USA and 2.50GBP extra to the Rest of the World.

No discounts for transcribing more than one LP apart from the shipping discount.

International Airmail parcels are cruciform boxes which are very sturdy but do add to the weight of the parcel.

Within the UK this will be sent in a record mailer with 2 stiffeners at 4.00GBP.

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However, I prefer a cheque from UK customers or a bank transfer.