I thought about tagging this with some "before" and "after" results on some music tracks, but it was already getting pretty long at 11 minutes. If you would like to hear some of this, let me know in the comments, and I will do a "part 2".

The good thing about the Audio Technica turntables is that you can always upgrade to new speakers when you have to and they work fine with computer speakers

Stumbled upon your channel and I've got to say, really enjoyed your thoroughness. Especially at the end. Including not just the CD, but also the digital files with the unedited versions included. That's really thoughtful.

Very helpful video, thank you for posting it. Digitized my first record today, and this was a great guide. The end result turned out a little crackly, but the record itself was relatively old.

Nice video, thanks! My process looks something like this. Basically, I do some manual click repair if there are any really big ones (I can get in down to the nano-second and delete the whole click without having the repair heard at all). Then I'll run the de-click plug in from the software. I let it auto-find the thresholds and that does a great job of taking care of the rest. After that I get into my Noise Reduction plug-in and take a noise sample of the very front of the record where the needle is just gliding in the groove before any music starts (the dead wax). I will apply that with a 70% reduction to the first half of the first side, then repeat the process by taking a sample of the dead wax at the end of side one and applying that to the last half of the first side. The process happens the same for the second side. The reason I split it up like that is because the wax and needle tracking at the front of the record is slightly different than at the end of a side, so I try to get the most accurate sample I can to eliminate from that particular part of the record (yes I'm THAT guy). Anyway this eliminates just the surface noise from under the music, without doing any damage to the desired audio. (Well, of course there are very minimal compromises, but they're inaudible to our ears anyway). Lastly I will go in between songs and execute a fade-out just slightly earlier than the original fade-out (if there is one), and then mute out (silence) all of the in-between space until the next track starts up. When I'm finished, in the final product we never hear the needle or surface noise at all, just the music punching through. "Why not just buy the CD?" is a great question, and as a rule, if I own an original pressing of a particular album in both vinyl and CD there's no need to rip the vinyl really, the disc is ideal. But if the only CD available is a re-master done between 1998 and yesterday, it's probably brickwalled and squashed like Wile E. Coyote under an anvil. In that event, the dynamic range of an original record (anything pressed before 2000) is going to be more desirable to prevent ear fatigue and just having a more pleasant listening experience. So it's worth it to do a rip. Or, if I don't own the album on CD at all, then yeah I'll rip it. Of course, if the vinyl itself was abused badly then really there's nothing you can do for it and you have to go find the CD. But 90% of my records I bought new myself and originally ripped straight to cassette to listen to, so they've only been out of the sleeve once or twice the whole time. Some I purchased used, but only after careful inspection that it was in decent shape. Quick note, now that vinyl is hot again everything new is in that format: Often new records are cut from the same digital masters as the CD's and downloads. So though the dynamic range can be slightly better on wax, usually there isn't a whole lot of audio quality to be gained by buying new vinyl which is about 2-3 times more expensive than a CD. So yes, I'm thrifty lol! I will sometimes though if I find a great deal. Because if we're being honest, vinyl has a much higher fun-factor. Last year Walmart was having a half off sale on their records, so I picked up a few, like Load and Re-Load, the new Slash album, etc. and then ripped those just for fun. I have to say that I was really impressed with those pressings. Listening and then looking at the waveform, those were probably the cleanest and quietest vinyl I've ever heard on my turntable.

Excellent overview takes the fear out trying this yourself.

A very good E2E real world tutorial. Thanks!

One thing that I do now is, at the very beginning of the entire recording, I find where the record starts (usually where the needle drop happens), select that and go to just before the first song starts. I then Amply the highlighted section to its absolute maximum level and use that for the Noise Reduction. It works for me, even if I have to increase volume levels after.

I like your videos and content.

Good demo. Next step would be manual repair of clicks, really time consuming. Also, if you click the pull-down menu at the top of the blue area to the left of the track, select "multi view" to see waveform and spectrogram at the same time. Spectrogram will let you see more clearly the effects upon the audio information of the different steps you apply.

Pretty cool video. Thanks for sharing

That's great you got an Audio Technica turntable people say that they're the best record players I'm planning on getting an Audio Technica LP60 soon

Thanks for this - really helpful.

You seem to have better stereo separation than my all-in-one USB turntable. As far as click editing goes, I play it back manually and use 66 threshold and 40 width over a short area for fastest editing. Although you need to play the record twice (once to record, once to playback/review), I find it the best compromise between speed and quality. CD-style quality will require more editing time almost to the point of you might as well find the CD in the first place, 200 threshold etc. is superfast but nowhere near sensitive enough to give a good recording IMO.

THanks a lot for the advise how to set the peaks. I was looking for this quite a while, so thanks a lot!

Great video.

Considering the cost of Audacity ($free), this is a great program for file editing. Any tips you can provide will be appreciated, as vinyl records are magnets for misuse to happen. Thanks for explaining what you used, any more assistance will be appreciated.

So you dont pick up any low frequencies of the turntabls motor humming? Thanks!

I have a question some vinyl rips on the internet have frequencies that reach 48KHZ, although the Styli\\cartridges that were used to rip have a frequency response of only (20HZ-20KHZ) how ?

Maybe I missed something..... But how do you get Audacity to detect the input from the turntable? Can I use a preamp from my home theater? What cables aside from usb do I need? The title of this video is from vinyl to file yet after watching this video I still have absolutely no idea how to do that! Perhaps maybe explain how you do it before going into some of the more advanced options.

So, I'm getting started when I found your video. I got a DIGITNOW all-in-one and was disappointed so what turntable and cartridge would you recommend now for converting vinyl? Thank you.

Hi, great video my friend, can I use this with my Reloop Spin Portable Turntable, & my smartphone, wich is an " Android LG Stylo 4 ", so that I can use a music DAW sort of app, on my LG Stylo 4 smartphone, wich is what is holding all of my MP3's, & AIFF or WAV. files basically. So that my phone would be kind of like Serato DJ, on a computer, but instead, it would be a similar app to Serato DJ, but running on my phone, wich is where all my music is anyways, besides my Skratch vinyl records I've been collecting, & also instrumentals, as well, im sort of new with the skratch DJing, & always learning something new everyday. But, I've made sure that my phone is " OTG ", compatible, & also supports Bluetooth 4.0, as well. Wich are both needed, in order to utilize the two devices I've recently invested in. Its called Mixfader, wich is a wireless cross-fader, Bluetooth 4.0, & then ive got a Mixfader Prolink SoundCard, wich is basically like a mini mixer for portable DJ's. Ive been able to get both the Mixfader, & Mixfader Prolink running connected to eachother, with my turntable, but havent been able to successfully get those and my phone all simultaneously connected, so that I can utilize the app that came with the Mixfader crossfader set up for my portable turntable, wich is called " Mixfader App ", & its supposed to give you an option between wether your using" Vinyl ", or " DVS ", wich is" Digital Vinyl ", basically. So, ive been able to get the Mixfader crossfader, & the Mixfader Prolink connected to eachother, & then use them with my portable turntable, with my actual " Vinyl Skratch " records, but, its supposed to also have my phone connected with the app running, & connecting with both devices, nsync, so that when its connected correctly, the first thing that pops up on your phones screen is wich mode, VINYL or DVS, wich is digital vinyl (timecoded-records). Lol.. So im reaching out,asking peeps if anyone knows how to accomplish this set up, or wether I should just invest in the " OMNI Portable Turntable " , by " Headache Sounds Electronics ", & it has all this built rite into the turntable instrument. And you can simply switch between DVS MODE, or REGULAR VINYL MODE, either Serato DJ, or some DAW runs it for that mode, & you can also have it in REGULAR VINYL MODE, and simply use your actual skratch vinyl, or whatever vinyl you desire. But, have ability to basically record your vinyl to digital, to protect all your actual Vinyl, so no matter what, you'll never lose your own music collection,wich is great!... But thanks for your video, & was hoping to shed some light on this thing im trying to solve,thanks again.......👍💪🙏🔥💯🎄

I use magix audio cleaner

and is this going to be high quality?

Great video!. Now, .... which high school was that? and how could I digitize vinyl records without having to buy that interface?

Which cables did you use to connect your phono preamp to the Tascam recorder?

what are the equiptments needed? Given is the turntable, and the laptop... But what are the other equiptments needed? 'From the amplifier ; cable with usb? Do you connect the aux out directly to the mic of the laptop ? ? Or aux out to usb of laptop? Or do you need a gadget between the turntable and laptop? Thanks for your reply.

What u use to gain the volume

I’m guessing this is designed for people who are familiar with audacity because a good half of what you are saying makes no sense to me Pointless exercise watching unless you are familiar with audacity