Tunes

You may remember that I recently got my turntable back in service.

Last night I decided to try "ripping" an old vinyl album* (you remember those, don't you?) onto my computer. What a pain.

I won't bore you with a blow-by-blow of the process, but it took forever. The trimming and file management stuff was especially time consuming. By the end of the evening my Master Plan to transfer my entire 80s-centric album collection to mp3 was - in the words of Weatherford, Oklahoma mortician "Stony" Lockstone - "dead, dead, dead."

To add insult to injury, today I realized I had fallen prey to one of the classic blunders! I connected the cabling at the stereo end to my equalizer instead of the amplifier - much easier to hook up that way. But I did not recall that the eq is set to boost high frequencies - to compensate for the fabric in front of my main speakers. The equalized mp3 files are Super Tinny Sounding. Ack!

Luckily Pat has some decent audio editing software (unlike the shareware junk I tend to use) and said he can fix it for me.

* The Clocks. An early 80's rock band from Kansas. You haven't heard of them.