| I ended up purchasing a Stanton T.90 for digitizing my wax, I'm using the SPDIF connection (the quality of the converters is decent, although for the life of me, I don't understand why they didn't put a ground screw on this thing because it has a degree of hum when I play records through my receiver, not an issue however using the digital connection, haven't used the USB connector though).
Recording the wax @ 16/44.1 using direct monitoring in SoundForge (can't do this in my preferred editing app, Audition 3).
In audition 3, create markers for each track and then batch process them to create individual files. It's a breeze.
Created a script in Audition 3 to:
1. Normalize to -3.0dbfs
2. Load UAD Pultec Pro preset I called "Vinyl Salt & Pepper" (gentle boost of the low/mids).
3. Load UAD Precision Maximizer preset (*lightly* boosts RMS levels, set it up to bring out just a tad bit of punch, limiter deactivated).
4. Normalize to -0.3dbfs.
So far, I'm real happy with the results. The T.90 doesn't sound as good as my Technics 1200 that I had to sell a few years back thru my HiFi, but for digitizing to CD or MP3, this thing's not bad at all. |