Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity [LWN.net]

Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity

Posted Oct 30, 2008 16:25 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity

Nice description. 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? I can't see any reason to fade in actual music, but perhaps
I'm too clasically oriented to see the point. (With classical stuff,
either you can't hear a fade in because the music itself is fading in,
starting pp, or you don't want to hear it because the music is supposed to
sound louder than that. An example anyone can get: can you imagine
Beethoven's 5th with an initial fade-in? Yuck...)

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Digitizing Vinyl Records with Audacity

Posted Oct 30, 2008 16:29 UTC (Thu) by cook (subscriber, #4) [Link] (1 responses)

>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.

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).