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Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity

Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity

Posted Oct 30, 2008 16:29 UTC (Thu) by cook (subscriber, #4)
In reply to: Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity by nix
Parent article: Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity

>The only thing I find odd is the fade at the start. Is
>this done so as to fade up any audible background sound you weren't able
>to get rid of?

The beginning fade-in is just an effort to make a smooth transition
between total silence and the track noise that starts before the first
recorded sound begins.


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Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity

Posted Oct 30, 2008 16:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Ah, right, so it is a background noise thing. I suppose it makes sense: my
thirty-years-dimmed memories of vinyl records says that they generally had
long pauses before the music started, unlike CDs and cassettes (but this
could well be inaccurate).

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