[78-L] Mills Brothers song

[Royal Pemberton]

Another machine to investigate is the Alesis Masterlink.  It's a hard
disk recorder with a CD mechanism, and an internal editing platform
with some DSP functions as well.  Not state of the art, but definitely
better than a Sound Blaster!  The Masterlink could suit for a medium
to transfer the records to initially, then transfer from its CDRs into
a computer to work with Audacity or other programs....just a thought.

On 5/19/09, Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>>>>
>>>>> Does someone have an MP3 of "The Jones Boy", by the Mills Brothers? I
>>>>> hear it when I was a kid and haven't since.
>>>>>
>>>> I have the 78...mainly because this was one of the "tunes of my
>>>> childhood"
>>>> (my childhood happened to be the NADIR of North American "pop"
>>>> music!!)...but so far no way to convert my half-vast shellac archive to
>>>> digital phenomenae...?!
>>>>
>>> Thanks to Bud Black for sending me a nice clean mp3.
>>> Steve, get on Ebay and get yourself and CD recorder. The prices are
>>> ramping up. I have  TEAC that works nice, though it was not the highest
>>> rated. I think the Marantz and Sony versions were good too. I record
>>> entire sides of 33's flat, then edit using Audacity on the computer.
>>> I think the CD recorders are going to become scarce as time goes on.
>>> They don't make em any more and the number of them on Ebay is beginning
>>> to wane.
>>> I have heard that the USB record players are of inferior quality. Anyone
>>> want to comment?
>>>
>>>
>> Well, I recently discovered that I DO own a "record player" which uses the
>> N8-3d needle...in fact, will take TWO of the dommed things should I so
>> wish! Next step is to find the requisite needles. Then, I shall cut the
>> cartridge output lead and redirect it to a "mini-phone-plug" which I can
>> then plug into the "Line In" jack of my sound card...a ceramic cartridge
>> puts out a nice 1 volt "line-level" signal, and I USED to record my 78's
>> to cassette by taking the cartridge output and feeding it into the "Line
>> In" jack of my old Sony r-2-r deck, which was also the centre of my
>> "sound system!"
>>
>> The 3-mil needle seems to work fine on about 99.9% of vintage 78's...
>> it CAN'T handle a very few Grey Gull discs, though (I would guess
>> they have VERY oversize grooves...?!). I dubbed MANY a 78 to
>> cassette for DL for reissue purposes using this same set-up...however,
>> I lost the Sony machine (and my old record player to boot) back in
>> 1997, when a few SO-CALLED(?!) "friends" decided to hold a
>> "contents sale" while I was lying in hospital...if God is just, they
>> will PAY for this...?!
>>
>> Now I have to recreate the setup...just need a reliable source for
>> N8-3D needles...!!
>>
> Just get a stereo female RCA plug (2 plugs on a "Y")-to-1/4" male
> headphone jack adapter from Radio shack.
>
> I did this at first and got fair results until I tried doing high
> fidelity records. The results were dismal. Computer sound cards are of
> inferior quality, not capable of high performance recording. At least,
> my Sound Blaster wasn't up to it.. The CD recorder output is barely
> discernible from the original
> I used a magnetic cartridge phono, ran it through a stereo amp and
> pulled the signal off auxiliary output. I tried using straight and
> attenuated lines. Results were dull and lifeless.
>
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