[clug] Digitising vinyl records

[Bob Edwards]

On 13/02/17 21:20, Hugh Fisher wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a small collection of vinyl records that I'd like to listen to.
>>
>> Where can I buy a reasonably good turntable with decent speed control, a
>> pretty good cartridge and stylus and a roughly OK calibrated counterweight?
>
> Not nearly technical enough :-)
>
> A couple of years ago I attended a talk at the National Film & Sound
> Archive on recovering content from old analog audio media. IIRC, the
> state of the art is to use high res digital cameras to photograph the
> grooves, image processing software to merge any cracks or gaps and
> straighten the curved tracks into one long strip, and then just
> convert the width of the track pixel by pixel into an audio level.
>
> Sure it will cost much more and take far longer, but think of how much
> fun you'll have :-)
>

You seem to be missing the key ingredient: lasers. If your audio
digitisation from analogue media solution doesn't involve lasers,
then you aren't trying hard enough...

Bob Edwards.