DareUtoLoveMusicMore

This would be my favorite music below...it's got 79 on it at the moment, and it's mostly ranked by how often I like to listen to them:

The Beatles, The Strokes, Phoenix, Coconut Records, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Fratellis, The Whitest Boy Alive, Delta Spirit, Morphine, Wynton Marsalis, Marquise Knox, Major Handy, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Fats Waller, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, Buckethead, John Butler Trio, Jelly Roll Morton, JJ Cale, Jack Johnson, Radiohead, Mayer Hawthorne, Thievery Corporation, Self, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, DJ Shadow, Madeleine Peyroux, Aimee Mann, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse, Daft Punk, Tool, The Prodigy, Simon & Garfunkel, They Might Be Giants, Spoon, Cee Lo Green, Willie Nelson, Beastie Boys, Andre3000, Royce da 5'9", Dr Dre, Eazy-E, The Cure, Psycho DeVilles, Blue Oyster Cult, The Devil Makes Three, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Rage Against the Machine, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Julian Casablancas, Don Ross, Andy McKee, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Too Short, The Smiths, Serj Tankian, Albert Hammond, Jr., Placebo, The Black Keys, The Chemical Brothers, The White Stripes, Primus, The Sex Pistols, Bombay Bicycle Club, Ratatat

Nice to make your acquaintance

s_k

That's a nice list

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DareUtoLoveMusicMore

Thank you. I browsed over your record collection, very nice. I need to get myself organized like that. I have well over 500 records myself, but I need to get digital back-ups of them too like you're doing. I'm looking at buying a Pro-Ject USB table soon to make it happen. Right now I use a Pioneer PL-510A with a Grado Green cartridge on it, it gets me by.

Mrd00d

That's what we got in common so far. Nice variety!

Nice to make your acquaintance

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The Pioneer will kick the arse of that USB pro-ject by miles.
The project isn't bad, but the Pioneer is really a very nice piece of kit.
The Green perhaps isn't the best cartridge money can buy, but it doesn't sound obtrusive, which is worth quite something.
What you could do is keep the Pioneer and get yourself a nice Phono preamplifier with a USB output. Like a NAD PP3. It's not brilliant, but it will sound better than the Pro-ject. Best option is buying an even more decent phono preamplifier (I love my Cambridge 640p for instance) and a proper soundcard. May be an idea. Still, the NAD PP3 isn't half bad and please keep that beautiful Pioneer. The Pro-ject is not an upgrade. Believe me, I used to own one .

As for the organisation of your records; Do you have a voice recorder or a mobile phone with a voice recording function? If so, organize your records by putting them in alphabetical order or something (if you haven't done that already) and then read all the titles out loud (slowly) while recording what you say. After that, just take your recording to your computer and type your list. That's a lot more ergonomic than sitting next to your record collection with a laptop

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Likewise!

You're probably right I should go with a preamp. I just don't get how it works is the main thing, haven't done enough research. I borrowed a Pro-Ject one from work before but it didn't have any instructions with it...so I plugged in the USB, but my computer didn't auto recognize it or anything and I don't have any software...don't know what the next step is. Hope you can answer that for me. Also curious as to what you use for a sound card or if you can point me in a direction there.

I like the voice recorder idea, I might try that out. My collection isn't sorted yet, I have a lot of work to do there (grading included!)

s_k

[QUOTE=DareUtoLoveMusicMore;1121882]You're probably right I should go with a preamp. I just don't get how it works is the main thing, haven't done enough research. I borrowed a Pro-Ject one from work before but it didn't have any instructions with it...so I plugged in the USB, but my computer didn't auto recognize it or anything and I don't have any software...don't know what the next step is. Hope you can answer that for me.
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Which one did you borrow? I don't mind trying to find out how it works. YOu'll probably need some drivers and they may be on the pro-ject site, but I'm not sure.

Well there's a few brands that are really nice. There's ESI, TEAC, M-audio, EMU.
I have two ESI's. An ESI Juli@ in my studio and an ESI U24 in my living room. But if all you're going to do is digitize records, you may want to go with the phono preamp with USB .
Truth be told; I didn't digitize most of my records, I just downloaded them (for free, obviously). I've only digitized the ones I couldn't download.

Haha, yet another tip;
If you sort it out, find yourself a wall or a couch and make three or four rows of records. One for the letters A to I, one for J to R and one for S to Z.
Put it up against the wall or couch and put the next record in front of it or behind it. This is a lot easier than organizing your records in your record cabinet, as you will have to make room for new records all the time.

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