![]() The Audacity GUI contains several nested groups and scroll areas. This resulted in a single (stereo) track with the entire album plus some dead space that I trimmed later during the editing phase. I started recording with R, then played side A, turned it over and played side B, then finally hit spacebar to stop. ![]() The solution that worked best for me was to never stop or pause, but to simply record the entire album in a single long recording session. Use Shift+R to append a recording, or use pause and unpause – both let you keep recording on the initial track. There are a couple ways to work around this. This is probably not what you want when ripping vinyl. If you record, stop, and record again, the second recording goes on a new track. This info might seem superfluous, but you’ll need it later when you edit and label your recordings.Īudacity is a multi-track digital recorder. Command+2 returns you to the default view and arrow increment size. You can increase or decrease the arrow increments with the zoom in (Command+1) and zoom out (Command+3). By default, left and right arrow move you a fraction of a second. To move the cursor position incrementally, use left and right arrow. To jump to the beginning or end of the recording, press Home and End. ![]() Visually, Audacity displays the stereo waveforms corresponding to your recording, along with a vertical cursor indicating the current position of playback. Note that you can use R to record, spacebar to play and stop, and P to pause and unpause. Launch Audacity and arrow through the entries on the Transport menu. Rather than detail those here, I’ll point you to theĪudacity wiki tutorial on ripping vinyl. Once you’re familiar with Audacity, you might want to consider changing some of the default settings. Arrow up in the tree control to Devices, then find the Recording group and change the device to the Scarlett. ![]() With Audacity open, go to the Audacity menu and select Preferences. Also note that, In spite of changing the Mac’s sound input, I still had to change Audacity’s input in Audacity. To fix this, go into System Preferences > SIRI > Mic Input and select the built-in mic. What?! SIRI can’t hear me anymore! SIRI’s input defaults to the system input, which means she’s no longer listening to me, she’s listening to The Velvet Underground playing on my stereo through the Scarlett. I went to System Preferences > Sound > Input tab to change the Mac’s input from the built-in mic to the Scarlett. (I could’ve used a less expensive USB turntable, but went with the Scarlett because I had other audio projects in mind.) I simply set up my stereo system as I have for decades, including speakers for monitoring, but I cabled the amplifier’s tape monitor output to the Scarlett’s input, and connected the Scarlett’s USB output to my Mac’s USB port. Obviously this didn’t come with a USB connection, so I needed an additional component – a Scarlett 2i2 USB audio interface – to bring audio into my Mac. A link to download LAME is available under the Optional Downloads section of the Mac download page.īecause I’m sentimental, I decided to use my old ‘80s-era Thorens turntable. Note that Audacity supports MP3 via a plug-in called LAME. I used the screen reader-accessible v2.1.1 DMG. To find the Mac download link and installation instructions. Where you can find many helpful tutorials, including tips on how to remove scratches and pops. It runs cross platform on Apple, Windows, and Linux. Many of them recommended Audacity.Īudacity is a free and open source software application for recording and editing sounds. While I procrastinated, I looked at turntables, read articles, and talked to musician friends about digital recording. The only thing holding me back from ripping my collection was the overwhelming nature of recording, labeling, and cleaning up well over 100 hours of audio. My collection of about 200 late-‘70s and early-‘80s punk, rock, and pop albums is near and dear to my heart, but I couldn’t justify their shelf space when I know they could all fit on my phone.
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