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I'm going to start the long process of capturing my vinyls to hard disk. If I do it mono the file size will be smaller although I'm not sure if it buys me more CPU. Is it worth doing it in stereo, or..?

Regards,
MarkH

I would defintely do it in stereo. Larger file sizes? Yes. But, you may want the stereo mixes down the road. Better to deal with it now.

I am about to rip my whole vinyl collection onto my hard drive too . Dreading it. I'm gonna load each track into Cooledit and save as a .wav, then back 'em all up as mp3's onto a CD-R. Now - the tricky bit... I obviously want to have all the tracks recorded at the same volume. I'll set them all to peak at 0dB from the output source (Vestax PMC-07 ProD - lovely mixer!). Once they're all on my hard drive, can I Batch Normalize them in Cooledit? Will this get them all normalized to the same level? That way, when I import the .wav into Live, I don't have to worry about fluctuating volume levels on the tracks, leaving me to fiddle with volume envolopes and not worry too much about how bad the original .wav sounds, right? I'd love some feed back opn this - as I don't want to waste time ripping all my vinyl and then realising its all incorrect.

The problem with normalize, is that it only looks at the digital signal peaks, which are NOT an indication of absolute loudness. It's not a case of what you see is what you hear when it comes to normalization.

Yeah. You should use a plug-in such as Waves L2 or another limiter to cut the peaks and then normalize. I would output the records at around -2db or so and then batch process.

Peak can batch normalize among other things.

sony soundforge 7 auto normalise to 0db when you record