{"id":1927,"date":"2012-12-16T04:38:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T04:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-nan.com\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2012-12-16T04:38:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T04:38:33","slug":"digitizing-vinyl-part1-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/16\/digitizing-vinyl-part1-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitizing Vinyl: Part1-A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an added part to part 1 of my 3 part series on digitizing vinyl:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digitizing Vinyl: <a href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/2012\/02\/digitizing-vinyl-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digitizing Vinyl: <a href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/2012\/12\/digitizing-vinyl-part-2\/\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digitizing Vinyl: <a href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/2012\/12\/digitizing-vinyl-part-3\/\">Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Need to add a couple of items to part 1\u2026 this does NOT supersede part 1, it adds a \u201cwhat to do if\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bought a copy of Herb Alpert\u2019s Rise album, Originally released in 1979. It was in the 50 cent bin at Homers in Omaha, one of 12 albums I bought when I was on my trip last month.&nbsp; The record is pristine.&nbsp; Initially I wondered why it was in pristine shape and noticed a sticker on the front of the album cover\u2026 It\u2019s encoded in dbx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0072.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3823\" title=\"DSC_0072\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not many of those dbx encode\/decode units around anymore, right?&nbsp; Well I just happen to have one laying around\u2026 I picked it up cheap at a yard sale when I was stationed at McGuire\u2026 you don\u2019t know how many times this thing was almost dumped in the trash bin over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0070.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3824\" title=\"DSC_0070\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So\u2026 I\u2019m in the process of digitizing this album as I\u2019m building this post.&nbsp; The most notable thing to point out is the DEAD SILENCE between tracks.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t expect this but there\u2019s absolutely no surface noise from the record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/flat.jpeg?w=780\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3825\" title=\"flat\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This section is of the leader at the very beginning of the last track on side 2.&nbsp; Notice how flat the wave form is before the first beat of the music starts.&nbsp; There\u2019s no additional audio processing there, just the decoding provided by the dbx box that I\u2019ve had on the shelf in the garage for 15 years and before that was moved from place to place over the years while I was in the military\u2026 I\u2019ve NEVER used it to decode anything before today, most tapes were recorded in Dolby-B or Dolby-C so it didn\u2019t see much use\u2026 I did experiment with it, but found I couldn\u2019t record tapes with it and expect them to sound good in the car unless the car stereo had dbx decode in it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As far as digitizing, except for putting the dbx encode\/decode box in-line between the turntable and the sound card on the computer, I followed the exact same steps to capture the album as part 1 of this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an added part to part 1 of my 3 part series on digitizing vinyl: Digitizing Vinyl: Part 1 Digitizing Vinyl: Part 2 Digitizing Vinyl: Part 3 Need to add a couple of items to part 1\u2026 this does NOT supersede part 1, it adds a \u201cwhat to do if\u201d\u2026 I bought a copy &#8230; <a title=\"Digitizing Vinyl: Part1-A\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/16\/digitizing-vinyl-part1-a\/\" aria-label=\"More on Digitizing Vinyl: Part1-A\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-help","category-random-stuff","category-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}