you older guyes will appreciate this

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you older guyes will appreciate this

Reply #15 – February 22, 2006, 08:52:17 AM

Quote from: slamedcat

...The the album that kicks all others the sound track to the movie Heavy Metal on vinyl.

Hijack time :flip:

That movie was just on one of the old movie stations here about a week ago. It's always been one of my favourite movies, and the soundtrack kicks ass (I've got many of the songs on my laptop in MP3 format). My favourite part of the movie: The two aliens and the robot that kidnap the girl in Washington. Those two aliens snorting the "nyborg" are so much like two of my brother's friends it's amazing (including their looks, which goes to show my brother's friends are some odd ones indeed).

I can still remember the B52 scene scaring the bejeesus out of me the first time I watched it - I was all of 10 when that movie came out. To this day that scene still gives me the willies...

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Reply #16 – February 22, 2006, 11:44:41 AM

I got my dad's old collection of eight-track tapes out a few years ago and listened to 'em only briefly because they were so worn out and brittle that they kept breaking. He had a collection of mostly country like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and others. When I first started driving in the good year of 1996, my old '73 F-100 had the original eight-track player, complete with the original paper dash speaker in it. For the longest time, I drove around listening to one of dad's Willie Nelson tapes. My friends thought I was nuts! lol

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Reply #17 – February 22, 2006, 12:17:32 PM

The very first "albums" I ever bought with my own money were "Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Ozz" and "Journey: Escape" on 8-track. $7.58 each at K-Mart. Was that really 1981? I swear it was yesterday...putting my hand through those circular holes in the plexiglass in the case to read the back of them...

In high school I was given an old 70's Panasonic stereo system complete with an 8-track player/recorder. I figured out how to record albums and tapes onto an 8-track pretty easily. Getting them to all fit between tracks was a beotch though.

Anyway, soon as 8-tracks got dumped as a format, I snagged a ton of py titles just for the purpose of recording, and then...never recorded again.

Now my neighbor wants me to take his 8-tracks and put them on CD for him. I have the hardware and software to do it. But I'm thinking maybe it's time to introduce him to the iTunes Music Store! $1/song vs. my sanity. I think the money may be worth it.

Also...my folks have an original 4-track player. My dad bought it for my moms to put in her old pre-Eric '64 1/2 Mustang. They still have a bunch of the 4-tracks...I think maybe Neil Diamond and some country stuff.

Oh...and in case you didn't know...the 8-track player was an option for 1983 Cougars and Thunderbirds.

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Reply #18 – February 22, 2006, 12:25:55 PM

Quote from: EricCoolCats

Oh...and in case you didn't know...the 8-track player was an option for 1983 Cougars and Thunderbirds.

I didn't know that! Do you have a picture showing one. I'd like to see that!

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Reply #19 – February 22, 2006, 12:32:54 PM

I don't have a good photo...but Karl does.
Oh KARL! Would you care to join us?

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Reply #20 – February 22, 2006, 12:45:23 PM

I have a stereo that was purchased from a Sears in 1981. It has the turntable (broken stylus, can't find a replacement), 8-track, cassette, and digital tuning. One of the first to have it, as a matter of fact.
I can recall listening to the Pink Panther theme on an 8-track at our beach house in the late '80s. I think I wore it out I listened to it so much.

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Reply #21 – February 22, 2006, 04:42:45 PM

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But I'm thinking maybe it's time to introduce him to the iTunes Music Store! $1/song vs. my sanity.

You ain't kiddin'. I've transferred some tracks from record to CD using Adobe Audition to remove cracks, pops, hiss, etc. from the recordings. It is time consuming to say the least.

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Reply #22 – February 22, 2006, 07:13:46 PM

Quote from: jkirchman

to remove cracks, pops, hiss, etc. from the recordings.

Why would you want to do that? its the sound of the record that makes the music, theres no other way to listen to pink floyd than with the cracks, pops, and hisses.

My album collection is over 250 strong (my gf has a couple hundred her dad gave to her, just have to dig them out of her uncles basp00get) and not a single one from the overpriced record stores, never paid more than 35 cents a piece :D brought home about 125 from a single garage sale once, poor sprint was bottomed out with that in the trunk.

Cant wait till garage sales start up again, picked up my LLoyds stereo from an old lady (80's) down the street that was going to a home for $10, one of the hinges on the top needed a bit of glue otherwise its in awesome shape.

Theres also a few hundred cassettes and cd's kicking around the house. I feel bad cause i'm the only one who cant play an instrument in the house, but I can turn wrenches!

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Reply #23 – February 22, 2006, 09:02:19 PM

Jim, I found some software for my Mac that basically makes manual adjustments unnecessary when converting albums to a digital file. It was $25 very well spent. There is a Windows version available here:
Edit: http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~briand/sound/ (be sure to play the sample files to see what it does...amazing!)

The guy that created it was an original Macintosh programmer and an audio engineer. His software works unlike any other that I've seen, using some kind of proprietary algorithms. I've also used Roxio's CD Spin Doctor and another called Final Vinyl. More often than not, I was bouncing between the two programs, until I found ClickRepair. Now it does all the work for me with really, really good results.

How does Audition work for you? Is it pretty easy to understand, or more complex than you'd hoped? I haven't heard much feedback about it, just curious.

Far as the popping from vinyl...I don't mind it one bit. I usually do a 'raw' and a 'clean' version and play whichever I'm in the mood for. For example...my old Yes albums sound so weird cleaned up. I left those in raw versions. But for something like Led Zepplin's Coda, I cleaned those up better because the rest of my Zep collection is all digital.

If I want nostalgia, though...I'll just play the vinyl on the turntable, through the buttstuffog speakers. :)

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Reply #24 – February 23, 2006, 01:20:33 AM

if i replied to this does it mean i'm old

And Billy Joel Glass House = best 8 track ever
or
Kenny Rogers Gambler
or
Neil Diamond Coming to America
or
I could go on and on I love that my camper has an 8 track player listen to it when camping and people are like what radio station you listening to and I'm like it's 8 tracks baby

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Reply #25 – February 23, 2006, 01:39:32 AM

it doesnt mean your old to be posting here (i meen shoot im only 19) but it does make you old that you probably bought you 8 tracks new.

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Reply #26 – February 23, 2006, 02:03:21 AM

:flip: lol your prolly right
but i also remeber my 1st cassette was AC/DC Back in Black and my 1st cd was REM Automatic for the People

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Reply #27 – February 23, 2006, 10:32:48 AM

Wow, you guys seem to be going the hard route to convert these things onto CD.
I just use MusicMatch Jukebox. It was free and works fine.

I just plugged a connector from the speaker output on the stereo into the line input on the back of my computer.

All I have to do is start playing the record or tape and press the record button on MusicMatch.
Works pretty well and the sound quality is great.

And it's awsome since I can play with the equalizer on the stereo to add bass and whatnot.

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Reply #28 – February 23, 2006, 12:41:27 PM

Thanks for the link Eric! Audition works great. It has capabilities far beyond what I have ever used it for. It has literally dozens of different filters to enhance frequency response, remove hiss, clicks, and pops, mix different tracks together, etc. You can save in any sound format ever devised in any different number of compression ratios. You can even take different sections from any recording and combine them together to create entire songs. It is really a kind of composition software.

Fred -- I don't record tracks from a stereo to the computer. I connect the turntable directly to the sound card. I have an older Soundblaster Live 5.1 card with a live drive so I have the choice of any different number of audio connections. It even has optical connections available. Anyway, I hook the turntable to the PC and record via direct connection. If the record is in good condition then not much cleaning up has to be done. But if it is well-played and/or scratched then the recording definitely benefits from running it through some filters especially since a CD will reveal so many imperfections that were not noticeable on the original record simply because of its broader frequency response.

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Reply #29 – February 23, 2006, 12:49:12 PM

No problemo Jim. Audition sounds cool...I may have to check that out.

I bought a special adapter from Griffin for my turntable (1986-ish Mitsubishi linear tracking). It has the left and right RCA sound jacks, and also a ground screw for the turntable. That plugs directly into the microphone jack of the computer. ClickRepair is set to recognize the computer's audio-in line for importing music, and away it goes...no real thinking necessary. I also have a Griffin iMic that converts sound in/out via USB, if I want to go that way. Lots of options, but line-in is working just fine for me.