I bought a USB Turntable-Here's what it sounds like

[Mike Walker]

Ok, I bought a USB turntable...the DJ-USB from Gem Sound. Here's a cut from my 25 year old copy of "Tug of War" by Paul McCartney that I "digitized" with it (recording in Audacity, removing noise in Adobe Audition 2.0) Not bad for often-played vinyl purchased during Reagan's first term!

http://www.theproductionroom.net/mccartney.wma

 

[mrterry]

Sounds real good. Can we get a short sample of the unprocessed track for an A / B comparison?

 

[Mike Walker]

By "unprocessed" Mike, do you mean not compressed in Windows Media, or without the noise having been removed? I didn't save the pre-noise reduction version, after I determined (to my satisfaction) that audio quality didn't suffer (I didn't do "tick and pop" removal, because I didn't want to clip transients. I just did "noise reduction", taking my noise sample from a spot between two songs, so Adobe Audition knew what the noise "sounded like".

 

[Mike Walker]

I just listened back to the wma file I posted. The original track is DRIPPING with highs. I notice some "splatty" sound on the wma that wasn't on the uncompressed original. The WMA encoder definitely doesn't "like" material where the highs are that "hot".

 

[mrterry]

Sorry Mike, my bad. I didn't read your original post the way you wrote it. I thought you were pointing out what a good job the software did cleaning an old piece of vinyl. I didn't catch the "USB" part of the post untill after I posted.