Digital Conversion...

Furtle has bought an i-Mic. It needs some playing with to get the best reproduction, but we have tested it and it works. That means the vinyl we salvaged from Shropshire over New year can now be converted to MP3. That means all those early Beatle albums I refused to purchase on CD (Well, full price for 20-25 minutes music? Come on!) can be copied, together with a number of out of print items. I don't understand in this digital age why anything is out of print. Slap the tracks on a disk somewhere and make them available for download, someone will buy it. I particularly would pay for a copy of the track "Blue Desert" by Sailor, but no, it's out of print.

Anyway. The trick is to set the recording levels and then the various filters to minimise the hiss and pops. Good grief, I used to think that I looked after my vinyl records, but after two decades of increasingly digital sound, I find that maybe I could have done better. This takes me back to my teens, hunched over a hot turntable, piddling around with a graphic equaliser and Dolby noise reduction trying to get my compilation tapes just so...

I am looking forward to reacquainting myself with a number of tracks I haven't listened to in many a long year, including a couple of songs from a pair of elpees with the catchy names: "20 Fantastic Hits by the Original Artists" volumes 2&3 (I never had volume 1). These were early 70s ancestors to the "Now" series of compilations and were quite revolutionary at the time. Before these it was the fashion to release albums with session singers mimicking the hits of the day. Oh dear.

I think I shall have a copy of Standing in the Road, by Blackfoot Sue, Too Busy Thinking About My Baby by the Staple Singers and Come What May by Vicky Leandros, the Greek singer who won Eurovision for Luxembourg with the French version of the song, Après Toi in 1972. I may also take a copy of Soley Soley by Middle of the Road, but Nice One, Cyril by the Cockerel Chorus stays where it is. Even an ardent Spurs fan wouldn't wish that another outing...

Digital Conversion...

Furtle has bought an i-Mic. It needs some playing with to get the best reproduction, but we have tested it and it works. That means the vinyl we salvaged from Shropshire over New year can now be converted to MP3. That means all those early Beatle albums I refused to purchase on CD (Well, full price for 20-25 minutes music? Come on!) can be copied, together with a number of out of print items. I don't understand in this digital age why anything is out of print. Slap the tracks on a disk somewhere and make them available for download, someone will buy it. I particularly would pay for a copy of the track "Blue Desert" by Sailor, but no, it's out of print.

Anyway. The trick is to set the recording levels and then the various filters to minimise the hiss and pops. Good grief, I used to think that I looked after my vinyl records, but after two decades of increasingly digital sound, I find that maybe I could have done better. This takes me back to my teens, hunched over a hot turntable, piddling around with a graphic equaliser and Dolby noise reduction trying to get my compilation tapes just so...

I am looking forward to reacquainting myself with a number of tracks I haven't listened to in many a long year, including a couple of songs from a pair of elpees with the catchy names: "20 Fantastic Hits by the Original Artists" volumes 2&3 (I never had volume 1). These were early 70s ancestors to the "Now" series of compilations and were quite revolutionary at the time. Before these it was the fashion to release albums with session singers mimicking the hits of the day. Oh dear.

I think I shall have a copy of Standing in the Road, by Blackfoot Sue, Too Busy Thinking About My Baby by the Staple Singers and Come What May by Vicky Leandros, the Greek singer who won Eurovision for Luxembourg with the French version of the song, Après Toi in 1972. I may also take a copy of Soley Soley by Middle of the Road, but Nice One, Cyril by the Cockerel Chorus stays where it is. Even an ardent Spurs fan wouldn't wish that another outing...

Iron Man II

jadeent found another copy of that Iron Man clip. It's still working for the moment at least:

Iron Man II

jadeent found another copy of that Iron Man clip. It's still working for the moment at least: