"Clyde Slick" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Jenn" wrote in message

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"Jenn" wrote in message


The Marantz sets track marks when the dB level falls
below a certain point for more than 3 seconds.

Setting this up is especially difficult when you're
transcribing LPs, because they are relatively noisy.

I doubt it. IIRC the cut off point is -40 dB.

There's two sides to this story, and that is only one.
If you set your machine to drop in track marks at -40
dB, you run the risk of putting track marks in fade-outs
long before they are totally faded out.

When transcribing LPs, quite a bit can be done with trimming and fading to
create a product that is more likely to be perceived as being noise-free. If
a LP is in pretty good condition to start with, the body of each musical
track might be perceived as being noise-free or having very low noise. Most
of the audible noise is between the tracks.

If your CD track starts and ends exactly at the beginning and end of the
music on the LP, then a major source of perceived noise is eliminated.
LPtracks that fade out can be "enhanced" by starting the fade-out just a
little bit earlier.

Not ideal, granted. IIRC, you can also manually set
the tracks.

Takes mucho hand-and-eye coordination.

Why?

This one you'll have to learn for yourself Jenn.

RC (the last time I used the device was about 3
years ago) you just punch in the track markers before
finalization.

That's not how the CD recorders I've used work. You have
to punch in the track markers as you are recording. How
else would the poor dumb machine know where to put them?

I agree, its the only way it worked for me, and its why I
hardly ever used the damn thing.
I had a HArman Kardan CDR-2.

In contrast, marking, chopping, trimming, and fading tracks with a very high
level of precision (+/- 1 sample or 1/44,100 th of a second) is fairly easy
with a computer and software like Adobe Audition. A great deal of good work
can be done with freebies like Audacity or Goldwave.

If you load LP's onto your computer via the CD recorder-ripping path, then
the sonic quality of your finished product is not limited by the audio
interface in the computer. All computer work is done in the digital domain.

"At least" I have the entire early works of blues
singer Tracy Nelson on cd, now.

Good to hear.