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Hey, MrCheeseo here and I'm going to show you how to convert 78 RPM Records With Audacity.
So, the first thing you're going to want to do is already have a record on your turntable.
I have already done that. Then next you are going to have to connect your tuntable to your computer with some means,
some sort of cable, depending on what you have and plug it in to the line in port on your computer.
Then, you are of course going to have to download Audacity if you don't have it. The link is audacity.sourceforge.net/download
I'm going to post it in the description for this video. And of course you click whichever link you need for your operating system
Allright, and let's get started. First, what you are going to want to do, you are going to want to cue your record and
place the needle just above the lead-in groove, the groove with no sound on it at the beginning of a record.
I'm doing that right now. And then, you're also going to want to hover right above the record button so that you can hit it
easily, right here. So, hit the record button first so that you capture as much audio as you can, and depress the cuing
button [On your turntable]. As you can see right now we're getting a lot of general noise around right here.
As you can tell it's coming in really slow, that's because it's a 78 rpm record being played at 33 rpm,
and it doesn't like that. So in a sec, we are going to correct that.
So, as you can see the line has gone flat here which means there is no more sound coming in. We're just going to hit
stop and end the recording right there.
The first thing you notice is that this recording sounds like Satan's iPod.
As I said before it's because the speed is too low. So, the first thing to do which will really speed up the process.
Select the entire channel by clicking here. Click on "effect", and then go down to "change speed" right here.
And If you'll notice conveniently it has presets for a record played at 45 RPM or 33 1/3, whatever you played it as.
To 78 which is what the record is at. So just choose whatever speed you had it playing at on your turntable and
then set the other one to 78 and you should be fine. hit OK, and a bit of digital magic. There we go, and now it sounds
better. Sounds a little bit more human then what we had before.
Now, convert everything to mono by clicking here, going to "tracks" then "stereo track to mono" That'll downmix it into
mono. You should do this because the 78s are in mono and you waste hard drive space by keeping it in stereo.
Now, select this dead space at the beginning and delete it. Now, play the song and listen for where the lead in ends and
the song starts. Thats just the lead in, now I can guess that since I heard the first sound here, that if I go over here I
won't select the song by mistake. Then select the lead-in, but try not to include the very beginning.
Then hit stop, go to "effect", and down to "noise removal".
Then click on "get noise profile", select the entire track again, go back to "effects", "noise removal" and click "OK".
Now you can see all the plain noise where the lead in groove used to be is gone and it takes out just about all the
scratches, occasionally you'll hear a pop but that's about it. You can tell that it sounds a bit abnormal, but that is a
consequence of taking out the pops.
Now, go to the end and click see where the song ends and cut out the end of the song to the end of the recording.
And do the same for the beginning
Now, to export the song, go to "file" "export" and pick whichever format you like.
What I do is save it as an AIFF and let iTunes compress it further.
So save it as the song name and click "save".
And here all all the information you know about the song in the appropriate box.
And here all all the information you know about the song in the appropriate box.
I'm going to put this in an album called 78s, because it; like all other 78s was released as a single.
Then hit
And that is how you do it, thank you very much