Professional Vinyl Record Transfer Service

How the process works:

Cleaning of the vinyl record- record is cleaned using professional record cleaning solution and anti static products

The record is then played using a Gemini belt driven turntable with a Stanton 680E V3 going into the Stanton M.304 Mixer and straight into Pro Tools via the Digi 003

Then there are a number of things that can be done, remove clicks & pops, apply noise reduction, edit song start & end times, fades and my biggest advantage is the ability to Digitally Remaster the Recording for Superior Sound Quality

This is a Professional Audio Engineer performing the transfer in a professional recording studio.

As a service to my customers who visit collectingvinylrecords.com, I have incorporated this special professional service to help people transfer their vinyl to CD. I asked Greg about his love for vinyl records.

Gregg: I like vinyl records mainly to sample from. It's the best possible sound source.

CVR: So there is a difference in the sound quality between vinyl and digital music, can you explain?

Gregg: Sure, I recorded a song off of vinyl then I imported the same song off

of CD and lined them up so they started at the same time. I would then

solo one and then the other and that's when I first discovered how much

better vinyl sounded. The highs came to life and seemed to jump out at

you, The lows seemed to have body and move. It was like going from 2D

to 3D.

CVR: How did you get started in the audio business ?

Gregg: Well I started out songwriting in the late 90's. Being in a place that

lacked a music scene I decided to take the "do it yourself" approach.

That's when I got into production which lead to me into recording at

some studios. This is where I started purchasing my own equipment and

taking classes receiving my certificate as a Pro Tools Operator in

2005. In March of 2007 I finished building my recording/mixing studio

in my basement. Then one day someone I knew asked if I could transfer a

vinyl record onto CD. Impressed with the outcome after removing pops &

clicks and digitally remastering it, I was recommended to others

becoming the man to go to for this kind of service locally. Now its

something that I do on my downtime in the studio.

CVR: Why is the transfer from vinyl to CD important (and we both know it is to save the records from wear and tear, make them portable) but are there other reasons you can think of?

Gregg: Well there are a lot of vinyl records that people love that never came out on CD. So making your own CD allows people the freedom to play their favorite vinyl anywhere (they could even download it into their ipod if they wanted to).

CVR: There's also a lot of software programs for converting vinyl to CD, are their any you recommend.

Gregg: Not if you want the sound to rival a commercial CD. Even with pro audio recording software, there is still stuff that needs to be done to get it sounding like a commercial CD. Their are processors that are used that cost more than most people's computers. I saw a site that had one of those vinyl to CD programs and it mentioned after recording the vinyl to normalize it. Normalize is a common digital audio function that brings the highest peak in the waveform to like -0.1db which is right below clipping. The problem is that you bring up your noise floor in the process as well and I doubt the program has a good algorithm to begin with. There's a right way of doing things and then their are shortcuts. If sound is important to you, I recommend getting things done the right way.

CVR: How do I go about ordering your services?

Gregg: Just email me and we can get together and discuss what your needs are