Is there a market for the conversion of peoples vinyl to MP3 format. I mean do people pay for this service? Anyone?
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Vinyl to MP3
- Thread starter r05c03
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There are services that'll do that for you, but you could try doing it yourself.
ART makes this USB Phono interface that'll help a lot. But generally you'll need a phono preamp, you can't just plug in the turntable outputs into your computer.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ART-USB-Phono-Plus?sku=180642
ART makes this USB Phono interface that'll help a lot. But generally you'll need a phono preamp, you can't just plug in the turntable outputs into your computer.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ART-USB-Phono-Plus?sku=180642
actually I was wondering about the benefit of offering the service myself from the music lesson studio that I am opening.
Its not too hard, i good results by using the headphone out of my stereo system into the line in input on my computer. Recorded each whole side of the vinyl, then went through and seperated the wav files into the seperate songs. After that its easy to change over to MP3.
Its a simple thing to do, and to be honest i dont think there would be a market for it, mainly because most of what you can get on vinyl you can get on other media which will probably be already availible as digital media.
Its a simple thing to do, and to be honest i dont think there would be a market for it, mainly because most of what you can get on vinyl you can get on other media which will probably be already availible as digital media.
I run a small side business that performs various audio services, vinyl to CD being one of them.
There is a market for it, though it's not very big. You're offering a service that is very simple to do for someone who has a basic understanding out audio equipment. Some people will still pay for it though, because an oil change is just unscrewing a bolt and replacing a filter, right?
To get quality sound that people would be willing to pay for, you either have to have a really sweet soundcard or an external interface that connects via firewire/USB. I use an M-Audio Firewire 410.
For legal purposes, I only offer the service on albums that are out of print and not available on CD. You won't get enough business to get by if that's all you offer, but it considering that it doesn't take a lot of gear to do it, it doesn't hurt to offer it on the side.
www.brewcityaudio.com
There is a market for it, though it's not very big. You're offering a service that is very simple to do for someone who has a basic understanding out audio equipment. Some people will still pay for it though, because an oil change is just unscrewing a bolt and replacing a filter, right?
To get quality sound that people would be willing to pay for, you either have to have a really sweet soundcard or an external interface that connects via firewire/USB. I use an M-Audio Firewire 410.
For legal purposes, I only offer the service on albums that are out of print and not available on CD. You won't get enough business to get by if that's all you offer, but it considering that it doesn't take a lot of gear to do it, it doesn't hurt to offer it on the side.
www.brewcityaudio.com
Yeah. It would defintely was going to be a side offer type of thing. I have Intel G5 with a 2.1 GHz dual core processor and a firepod, so the quality should not be a problem, however I am considering if it would pay off to by the turntable and preamp and all required for the conversion. What equipment would you suggest or do you use?
Hey SD, the firepod is a preamp, would I still need another preamp to do what I want to do. What about those turntables like the Numark that are go USB direct? Still need a preamp?
Check this out, a turntable with USB output, doesn't get much easier than this methinks:
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It's probably worth mentioning that there are some "audio restoration" software products available that you may find useful. They attempt to remove the pops, clicks and other noise from the digital copies of vinyl recordings. "Wave Corrector" is one that I looked at a long time ago. If you're going into that business you should probably familiarize yourself with some of them.
The Firepod will not be all the preamp you need. Turntables produce very low gain levels that need to be amplified by a Phono Preamp. This also uses a hard-wired EQ filter called the RIAA Curve that will make it sound "normal". The aforementioned ART preamp/USB connector will do both. If you already have the Firepod, you can get a better (or just different) preamp and use that into the Firepod. I'm not familiar with the Numark turntables, but if it has a USB output, that should be all you need.
As for acquiring the turntable, you're looking at probably at least a $400 investment, and that's kind of on the low end. If I already didn't have access to a quality turntable, I might not have considered adding this option to my services. I wouldn't recommend using a $99 Radio Shack special, but you also don't have to go nuts in terms of price. (With turntables, the sky's the limit!) A lot of "audiophiles" will give you a hard time depending on your gear. :shakeno:
There are some really good products out there, but just be wary of the cheaper programs that don't offer a lot of flexibility in terms of their control. I've seen some that are essentially just a big button that says "Remove Noise!" and that makes me a little skeptical. I use Adobe Audition, and it has some great noise filters and click/pop removal that makes me happy because there are oodles of controls that let you adapt what you're doing to the specific recording you're working with. Audition isn't a cheap program at $300, but it does so much more than that and it's about all I need for all the business I do. There are probably some other great programs out there that will work similarly just for noise reductio and are a little cheaper.
I use this:
http://www.opensourcepartners.nl/~costar/gramofile/
It semi-automatically splits tracks, which is nice.
So if I get you SD, I will need a little better equipment than the Numark turn table with the USB ($169 at MF) and some software. Hmmm, this idea of mine is/was going to be more of an aside than anything else, so I need to look into it more to see if will be worth it. Thanks for the info. It is difficult to get a feel for, in advance the need for this kind of thing in my area. Thanks for your input.
