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Date Posted: 23:19:42 03/18/00 Sat
Author: Pain Train
Author Host/IP: 207-172-83-50.s50.tnt1.wlm.va.dialup.rcn.com / 207.172.83.50
Subject: Pain Train - Get your Vinyl LPs to sound better than ever (it's unbelievable)

One of the best songs in recording history is the live version of 'Pain Train', from the 'Live at the Paramount' album. (Incidentally, the song has roots in a poem called 'American Primitive' by Jay Smith.) Thanks to an unbelievable new software program, and a very informative web site article, I just heard it like I never could have imagined.

The web site explains how to get your old vinyl albums onto CDs and have them sound better than they ever did. It works--and the results are truly unbelievable! My copy of 'Live at the Paramount' had tracks worn out decades ago, or so I thought.

Everything (and then some) is explained at

http://www.banjo.com/Articles/CD-Vinyl.html

I got the amplifier, hooked it up, downloaded the Cool Edit 2000 software (30-day free trial from http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=0008N7&pragma=nocache ) and had at it.

The results are spectacular! I ran a click-and-pop filter on the recordings; the songs I recorded typically had over 1,000 clicks and pops, which were filtered out without taking anything away from the music. (I thought that the filter would just hack off the high and low ends where pops occured, but it doesn't work like that at all.) Then I expanded the dynamic range of the recordings (see the first website), and WOW! The Cool Edit 2000 software is something else--definitely the neatest thing I've seen on a computer in a very, very long time.

Just had to pass it along.

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