Offer Up Tips On Sampling From Vinyl

[analogheart]

Hey all just wondering what's you process for sampling vinyl . Do you record into Soundforge, direct to your DAW, to an MPC? What kind of processing (if any) do you do after you record your sample (but before you start chopping messing with it) Like do you denoise or anything or normalize or bring up the levels a bit after recording?

[Volatile Psycle]

To be fair I don't do a lot of this but a couple of things i'd do:

1.Clean record
2.Check needle is free is fluff/cake/pubes
3.Optimise the gain structure so that you get the best signal-to-noise ratio. If you sample of the deck too quiet then boost/normalise the recording you'll bring up the noise floor.

[ransom]

Years ago I read that Aquasky would sample vinyl at the slowest speed possible (33 RPM at -8 pitch, if on a stock 1200), so as to reduce the amount of low end rumble.

I haven't sampled off of any vinyl in a while, but if/when I do, I'll probably EQ unwanted low end, probably processing that a few times.