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Originally Posted by narticus
LFF - What takes so long besides the actual playing of the record itself? Not meant to be an insult, just curious. When I rip to Audition, I use the auto de-click feature (forget what it's called exactly) and that usually does a great job. Do you actually go through and manually fix each pop/click?
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No insult taken.
With a brand new, minty record, the longest part is actually playing the record. About 15 minutes to clean after capture and about 10 minutes tweaking after that.
What takes the longest for me, is designing the jewel case. Scanning and photoshoping the cover takes a while.
On not-so-minty LP’s, I go though and manually fix each pop/click as I find that just throwing it into an automatic de-clicker
will affect the music. I sometimes use hiss reduction or NR reduction very judiciously to fix some parts. Also, some transfers are in need of serious EQ in order to sound best. Each record takes a different amount of time.
New records are easy if the stamper was de-horned and the record properly pressed and cleaned afterwards.
It’s those oldies but goodies that take a while to restore.