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Notes about digitalizing vinyls

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The full entry of Vinyl Digitalizing can be found here. Please add the possible comments there.

– The first 10 tracks are now in digital form. Whee. The first digitalized track was BT – Flaming June (BT & PvD mix).

– Grado DJ200 sound quality is amazing. I’m VERY satisfied with it. It’s worth every cent.

– Before starting to record, I tried a couple of programs:
* Sample Manager for normalizing. Very good, but very expensive. No use, sorry.
* Final Vinyl. Only for use with iGriffin products. No thanks.
* Analogue Ripper had nice features – iTunes support, track splitting etc. However, the user interface was horrible. The price, 30 dollars, was ok, but the usability was that poor that I decided not to pay.

– Finally I ended up using Audacity. The normalizing feature was very poor so no normalizing until I find a better software. Recommendations?

– As I mentioned in the comments of the previous entry, I decided to make two copies of the tracks: One .wav copy for playing and archiving purposes and .mp3 copy for portable music players and iTunes music library.

– I need a new hard drive.

August 10, 2007

Club Elite, Helsinki & Sunburn, Kalajoki

By GigsNo Comments

WEDNESDAY
8.8.2007, 22 – 04, K18, 3€ @ Rose Garden / Helsinki

CLUB ELITE – High quality summer clubbing every Wednesday.
ROSE GARDEN, Iso Roobertinkatu 10 HELSINKI.

08.08.2007 | 22.00 – 04.00 | Tickets 3 eur | Age Limit 18.

· MEKE (DI.fm, Flux, Resurrection, RAD)
· ORION (Misc Management)

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SATURDAY
11.8.2007, 23 – 04, K18 @ Ravintola Dyyni, Club Passoa / Kalajoki

:: DJ ORION
:: DJ KAASI

:: VENUE
Ravintola Dyyni, Club Passoa
Tuomipakkaintie 59, 85100 Kalajoki (Hiekkasärkät)
Tel. 08- 466 710 | >>www

:: DATE & TIME
Every Summer Saturday 2007. Open 23.00 – 04.00

:: WWW
myspace.com/sunburntheclub
Info, photos, links and charts.

August 8, 2007

Digitalizing the vinyls

By DJNo Comments

Ghost In The Vinyl

There’s one loong loong project ahead. Taking each of my vinyls on the turntable set next to my laptop, playing and recording them, normalizing the recording and tagging and archiving the mp3-files. Even if I would just record the most important records, this would take months. I was thinking to make the process a bit shorter, but I ended up having a software question in front of me.

I took the first step today and bought the cartridge which has been told to be the best one available for DJing purposes. No matter to which DJ-needle you compare Grado DJ200, the difference is huge. Check it yourself:

DJ Caro2 tested seven different DJ cartridges and recorded the test. Take a moment and listen the test. The last two loops are recorded with Grado DJ200 – the quality difference is mad. Here are the cartridges used in the test – you can hear each for about 10 sec.

Stanton 500al 1.8g (low weight)
Stanton 500al 3g
Stanton 680Hp 3g
Shure M35X 2g
Shure M44G 1.5g
Ortofon DJ E 3g
Ortofon Elektro 3g
Grado Dj200 3.4g (Technics SL-1200Mk5)
Grado Dj200 3.4g (Stanton STR8-80)

Now as I have the best possible cartridge, I would still need some good software to do as much work for me as possible. Basically the easiest and fastest way to digitalize the vinyls would be to record them to one file without breaks.

So – I need a program which will split this long audio file into separate tracks. Then I need a program which would normalize all these files as a batch.

After this is done, iTunes will take care of the wav-to-mp3 conversion and tagging.

I know there are several DJs and music lovers out there having the same project in their hands. Any software tips, hifi knowledge, experiences or opinions would be very welcome.

edit: Read further notes about the project.

August 6, 2007

Major bug on Ableton Live

By MusicNo Comments

I don’t know if this bug is Apple related, but it sure is a nasty one.

Let’s suppose you’re recording something on Ableton Live via your line-in. You want to check the sound via your headphones and plug the headphone jack into the line-out of your computer.

What does Ableton Live do?

It cuts a short part off from your recording. It stops recording for a short moment when the jack is plugged in. And again when you pull it off. Basically you’ll have gaps on your recording each time you want to double-check its recording quality via headphones. Crazy, isn’t it.

August 6, 2007

Flickr fun #2

By Photos & VideosNo Comments

If browsing Flickr feels too complicated, see the moments of the past year from YouTube.
1.8.2006 – 1.8.2007, 600 moments, 600 photos – 2minutes, 10seconds.

One Year

August 5, 2007

One Minute Rave

By UncategorizedNo Comments

Here’s the announcement and the video of the One Minute Rave, held in Helsinki last Friday.

Did you know that the first Love Parade was organized by a group of friends, and it had a participation of less than a hundred people? And what happened… Now is your change to be a part of history in the making. Unity Posse is organizing the first ever One Minute Rave happening this Friday, that’s tomorrow (barely!). The rave will last from 18.00 to 18.01.

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July 29, 2007

Quote of the day: Tiefschwarz

By MusicNo Comments

“Music has lost so much of its value since the Internet came along and file sharing in particular. I think the Internet is a good thing in that it’s very democratic so that a DJ in Siberia can have the same chart as someone in Berlin. But that also makes it harder to filter quality, it’s a question of finding the right filters and also how good you are, to stand out from all these millions of tracks out there.”

Tiefschwarz interview.

July 27, 2007

Way Out West tribute

By MusicNo Comments

I hate mixes shared via ShareSpace, Megaupload, YouSendIt.com etc, but despite that – this one is really worth mentioning.
Simon Hallworth has made a nice Tribute to Way Out West. If you’re into WOW (not World of Warcraft. Get a life!), try downloading this one.
Tracklist and links after the jump.

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July 27, 2007

Orion’s Top Choices 25.07.2007

By DJ, MainNo Comments

Top Ten 25.07.2007

01. David West – Stuck In Friendsville
02. Danceteria – Passion (HeikkiL & Mr.A remix)
03. Cirez D – Horizons
04. Winkee – 3rd Plane To Ibiza
05. Prime 33 – Burn (16 Bit Lolita’s Dub)
06. Joonas Hahmo – Together
07. P Liassi & One – Fool’s Paradise (Tyrrell Dub)
08. Slyde – High Rise
09. Jay Lumen pres. Monologue – Midnight Express (Andro dub)
10. Gregor Tresher – A Thousand Nights
>> http://orion.reaktio.net/bio.php

July 26, 2007

Pros and cons of mp3 shops

By MusicNo Comments

Listing the pros and cons of mp3 shops

Beatport:
Pros:
+ Very good RSS-feed. Direct links to mp3s, possibility for listening via feed reader, no need to visit the site. However – the feeds are impossible to find.
+ Keyboard shortcuts. However – rewinding and fast forwarding only work if the sample has fully loaded.
+ Very good podcast with one-click-purchase option (works on iTunes).
Cons:
– No possibility to queue the tracks for listening. Needs constant attention. Wastes your time.

Audiojelly:
Cons:
– Charts. Are there any?
– Default currency is pound.
– Who browses music alphabetically by labels, artists or albums? No one? Why to have these features on every page?
– Podcast – good idea. But Gareth Emery’s podcast – why?
Pros:
+ You got rid of your awful music player with annoying swwwwooooosh flash animations.

DJDownload:
Cons:
– Player on external page. Nasty, evil feature. Get rid of it!
– Where’s your podcast?
Pros:
+ Possibility to queue all the tracks for listening on certain pages.
+ Lowered their prices. Waiting for the call of the other shops…

Did I forget to mention something?

July 24, 2007