Den's Record Thread - How many records did Den or NES_Rules buy today?

[NES_Rules]

I definitely will, my current method has acceptable sound quality, but it takes so long to get the sound levels perfect.  I have to set the volume on the turntable, then on the receiver and then the microphone for the computer. If it's not just right, the songs are too quiet or get distorted. 

I wonder if any cars ever came with a record player built in?

[ApolloBoy]

I wonder if any cars ever came with a record player built in?

http://www.imperialclub.c...essories/HiWay/invent.htm

[ApolloBoy]

If you like 80s pop you might want to check out The Housemartins, Prefab Sprout, A-ha, (early) The Beautiful South, The Jazz Butcher.

I'm already into a-ha, but I'll give Prefab Sprout a try. They seem interesting enough...

[den68]

Alice Cooper - From The Inside
Alice Cooper - Flush The Fashion
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
The Kinks - Arthur
Cream - The Best Of

[logical123]

I'm converting Boston 3rd Stage to mp3 as we speak.  Such a great and unappreciated album.

How do you do your conversions?  I used to do the speakers output to microphone input way, but I'm hopefully get a USB turntable for christmas. 

I use the speakers output to microphone input at 45 rpm for everything. Then, using Audacity, I slow the speed down to 33 1/3. Check out Audacity, its a great audio editing software, and its free!

[NES_Rules]

I do use Audacity, and love it. I had the trial version of Goldwave and it is an amazing program but it's not worth it to buy.  The only thing it has that Audacity doesn't is a really good click/pop remover, but I find it's not too bad removing them by hand. 
I've thought about recording at 45rpm and then slowing it down, but I figured it would lose quality. Plus, I like to listen to the record as it records. 

I did get a USB turntable for Xmas, and it does work nicely.  It's a cheaper model, but it sounds just as good if not better than my old one.  It comes with a program that is really simple to use, but you can't do any editing in it.It just records it, you break it up into tracks, and then it puts it into your iTunes. For the "advanced" users who want to edit, it also has Audacity with it.
I'm not sure why yet, but I can't get Audacity to record the audio through the USB cable, so I recorded Dave Mason's "Certified Live" using my old method and it did come out better sounding than with my old turntable.
While I connected my new turntable, I changed my whole audio set up. I may put up some pictures of it. 

[ApolloBoy]

Picked up on Amazon a few days ago:

*Split Enz - Corroboree (CD)
*Wire - It's Beginning To And Back Again (CD)
*Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again (CD)
*Icehouse - Sidewalk (CD)
*XTC - Nonsuch (CD)
*Simple Minds - Cry (CD)

[ApolloBoy]

Picked up from Streetlight Records on Saturday:

*XTC - Drums And Wires (CD)
*Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (LP)
*Duran Duran - A View To A Kill (7")
*Split Enz - Dizrythmia (LP)
*Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad (LP)
*a-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV (7")
*Split Enz - True Colours (LP and CD)
*New Order - Brotherhood (CD)
*INXS - What You Need (7")
*Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (7")
*The Art Of Noise - In No Sense? Nonsense! (LP)
*Devo - New Traditionalists (LP)
*Sparks - Music You Can Dance To (LP)
*The Art Of Noise - In Visible Silence (LP)
*Ultravox - Vienna (LP)
*OMD - Secret (7")
*Danny Elfman - So-Lo (LP)
*Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party (CD)
*Sparks - Angst In My Pants (CD)
*Eurythmics - 1984 (LP)
*Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (LP)
*INXS - Shabooh Shoobah (LP)

[NES_Rules]

Since Den asked for it.

so where are the pics of the record collection?

The records, all in alphabetical order:
[img width=560 height=799]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/records1.jpg[/img]
[img width=700 height=523]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/records2.jpg[/img]
[img width=700 height=797]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/records3.jpg[/img]
[img width=700 height=446]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/records4.jpg[/img]

The main part of the setup, my new Ion USB turntable, with an awesome receiver and speakers I got at a garage sale for $10.
[img width=700 height=676]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/recordsetup1.jpg[/img]

My old turntable that I use for 8-tracks and playing records because the USB one isn't really loud.
[img width=700 height=360]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/recordsetup2.jpg[/img]

And some more speakers. When I did this I realized Ethernet cable makes for awesome speaker cable.
[img width=700 height=321]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/recordsetup3.jpg[/img]

[den68]

that's beautiful man! the sad thing is that a couple of those albums in your pictures (38 Special - Special Forces & Pat Benetar - Live From Earth) I bought when they came out.

so you collect 8-Tracks too? That format has not aged as well as vinyl. Much like my cassettes many of the few 8-Tracks I have are unplayable.

[NES_Rules]

I'm sure those aren't the only ones, everything in my collection is some form of Rock.

I don't collect 8-tracks as actively, the majority of the ones I have are my dad's old ones. I also got a bunch when I bought that older record player, about 1/3 of which I kept. Whenever I find them in range of free - $0.25 I buy them. I've got around 50 of them at the moment.
I've got a few of them that the ribbon broke, but the majority are good, I really should copy them before they do rot.
I actually prefer them to cassettes because of the way they are split up into tracks, it makes them so much easier to listen to the song you want to. As you can see in that one pic, I don't have many cassettes (and the majority of those are blank recordable tapes) because I despise the format so much.

[den68]

nabbed a few more Tuesday night:

Wings - Back to the Egg
Paul Simon - In Concert Live Rhymin'
Sly & The Family Stone - Best Of
Robert Palmer - Heavy Nova
Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery & Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
UFO - Obsession
UFO - Lights Out
UFO - Force It
UFO - Mechanix

[den68]

from Saturday:

Soundtrack - The Dark Crystal
Soundtrack - The Warriors
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry The VIII
Frampton's Camel - Frampton's Camel
Santana - Shango
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Stephen Stills/Manassas - Down The Road

[den68]

Paul Simon - One Trick Pony

45's

Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Def Leppard - Hysteria

Books & Record

Star Wars
Return of the Jedi

[NES_Rules]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Beatl...ZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I wouldn't even want something like that, I just wouldn't feel right owning something that awesome.