Ripping vinyl (continued)

When we arrived in Anaheim last week, the NAMM conference was just wrapping up and the hotel was crawling with music industry folks. Don't consider this in any way scientific, but there were Powerbooks everywhere (including the room next to mine, a suite where the adjoining door had been left open for some reason — I noticed the Mac and a lot of other gear before closing the door). TidBITS has more on Apple at NAMM.

That story led me to a TidBITS Talk thread running for a couple weeks now on ripping vinyl that's worth a read. I really wish you could just read the whole thing at once using something like mode=flat (if it's there, it eluded me). For instance, Matt Neuburg describes his rather elaborate process with quite a bit of detail (although he leaves out how to search for clicks and pops in Amadeus). Hmm...

Coincidentally, an update notice for version 3.7.1 of Amadeus II showed up in my mailbox this week. I was at 3.5.4, so umm, it was way past time to update. One of the replies in the TidBITS thread pointed to series on ATPM last year called Got Vinyl? See part 1, part 2 and part 3. Again, worth reading if you are interested in this sort of thing.

Finally, Tomoharu Nishino mentioned the M-Audio Transit USB and "Audiophile" gear (USB and FireWire). Eventually we'll need to get Jon some MIDI gear, but today is not that day (I had a little bit of sticker shock). I'll stick with the iMic for now.