RIP YOUR VINYL RECORDS LIKE A PRO!!!

If you're a music addict like myself and have a vinyl record collection that you stole from your dad, then you might like to make a digital copy of a record as well so you can listen to it on your PC/Laptop/Phone whatever.

In this vinyl ripping how to video I take you through the steps required to produce great sounding vinyl rips like a pro!

Equipment and software I use in this video:

Project VC-S Mk II Record Cleaner
Technics SL-1210GR Turntable
TASCAM SD-20M Solid State Recorder
Audacity - Audio Editing Software
Clickrepair - Click removal software
dbPoweramp - Conversion, Tagging software

My written guide on VinylEngine:

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[brandon]

Brilliant, was looking for a proper tutorial to record my UK Garage vinyls. Many thanks from the USA!

[cleanersvenus]

The best guide I've found. Thank you. I've tried it and I'm pleased with results.

[zk]

Awesome! Always good to see someone who genuinely knows their stuff. Thanks fella 👍🏻

[iamcord]

Great, thank you. I'm ripping vinyl from time to time with audacity but never tried noise reduction. It's great to know and a huge improvement.

[grants]

something i like to do when ripping 45s is play them at 33 1/3. it slightly reduces surface noise and then speed it back up to 45 in audacity.

[chubbydunkers]

This was such a great tutorial packed with a ton of information! Thank you!

[davidhaslett]

I like your video, I have a Pink Triangle turntable, with a modded Rega RB300 arm, with Naim amplification. I would use your method, 96/24. I can't damage a digital recording when I have had a few drinks. 16 bits gives you 65, 536 levels, 24 bits gives you 16.7million bits. Probably will get one of the portable devices.

[oldschoolfoil]

I didn't even know you could clean vinyls like that at home. makes sense if you going to rip it clean. great job sir looks nice and shiny very little damage at all to vinyl.

[David-sgse]

Super informative! Thanks for showing the process and your own tips for high quality, much appreciated. You have an AMAZING set up btw, love your Cerwin Vegas!

[endoplasreh]

Great video. I do a similar process for streamed audio. Obviously no physical work, but using a DAW and cleaning up things. Cheers.

[robw]

Thanks for all your efforts on this, it was very helpful!

[TheTuquito]

THANK YOU, For all your time and HELP!!! If you don't mind can you recomend your favorite Storage opinions, And how to keep backing them up, in case of hard drive failure? Please

[nycboxing]

Dope!!!! Thanks for the time spent in detailed explanation.

[WACONimages]

Nice tutorial indeed! At this moment myself am using a made in Japan usb powered Korg dac-10r ADC device.

[PedroLopez-yonr]

Thank the great video I recently got back to vinyl and I the process of cleaning my records from the 80s.
I have Yamaha RX-V2700 receiver where in the look should I connect he tascam portable recorder? What cable should I purchase for the connection
Thank you for your assistance.

[sevcaczech]

You don't actually have to manually search for tiny peaks in Audacity. All you have to do is Amplify with a slight threshold crossing (enable clipping), e.g. above 2 dB, which will cause these peaks to be cut (you need to find the right level so that only small high peaks are actually cut). Then you perform another amplification (attenuation) to the original level. The file created in this way already has peaks trimmed just like you did it manually..

[attilapataki]

Hi Tom, I am glad that you created this video because I have also just started ripping my vinyls. Just let me make three comments:
1. Initially I also wanted to buy a Tascam DR05 but the retailer did not recommended it for vinyl ripping since it did not have line input. They said you can easily overdrive the input. I do not exactly understand what it means but they recommended Tascam DR40 instead which had line input (switchable mic/line input). However, I have chosen SD20M in the end just like you.
2. PCM method has the property/disadvantage that if the input level is low then not all 24 bits are utilised. So the volume should be increased before A/D conversion and not after. What do you think?
3. You are right, 96 kHz is ideal for vinyls! Acoustic instruments such piano, violin contain overtones above 20 kHz and it is captured by vinyl records (up-to 40 kHz). If you encode it in 44.1 kHz then the sound goes through a low-pass filter first which cuts-off the overtones so you will not record the original sound anymore. And it counts! Many people think that it does not matter what happens over 20 kHz but it matters! This is one reason among others why vinyl has more natural sound than CD. Also, human ears are very good at separating sound from the noise. Believe or not but if the noise on the vinyl record is also properly recorded (i.e. high frequencies) along with the music and the two components are not mashed up by low pass filtering then your ears will be able to better separate music from noise.

[stevenj]

nice system love the Technics, great cleaning..I have more modest gear esp the turntable but I record to CD on a Tascam...now happy with TEAC TN-570 with Toslink out directly, to the Tascam CD RW 900ii (not the 901 as I dont have anything with balanced in or out.) As I record, I can change to next track. Recorder has PS2 keyboard jack, so I can title the disc and every track if I want to. I rip the resulting CDs for the files.

[chrissmirnoff]

Thanks for this. Why do you have to use the tape loop of your Rotel. Why can't you just connect your Cambridge phono amp directly to the Tascam?

[BoBBonBaSSChoate]

Bravo, Very Well Done ... So Much Useful Info!!