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#61

Technical Support / Re: Start up options

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - February 09, 2025, 12:46:40 PM

Hi,

There's an easier way to achieve what you want without upsetting VinylStudio.  Try this:

1.  Create your collection.

2.  Create, record, split and save your album.

3.  Delete your album.

4.  Repeat from #2.

We certainly won't be suppressing that message - it is far too important!

#62

Technical Support / Start up options

Last post by Muberos - February 09, 2025, 12:19:08 PM

Hi All,

I am a new user of VinylStudio (Premium), purchased to be able to digitize my LP collection in DSD format using an RME ADI-2 Pro.

The way I use it, I don't really like the concept of collections, I just want to record an album and split it into individual tracks. After I have done this, I usually delete the working folder. The consequence of this is that when I start VinylStudio for the next project, I get an message telling me that the previous collection can not be found.

Is there an option to suppress this message on startup? I can't seem to find it anywhere in the options menu. If not, could it be added in a future update?

#63

Technical Support / Re: Normalise Twice ???

Last post by Indy33 - February 05, 2025, 03:05:48 PM

Good to know, thanks Paul!

Rick

#64

Technical Support / Re: Normalise Twice ???

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - February 05, 2025, 12:12:04 AM

Hi,

Other things being equal, no it won't.  All it does is adjust the preamp sliders, based on the original signal.

#65

General Discussion / Re: Click Repair Observations ...

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - February 05, 2025, 12:11:13 AM

Thanks for this.  Believe me, we put a lot of time into fine tuning VinylStudio's click scanner, and amplitude of the waveform is a poor metric for detecting clicks.

As for comparing channels, again, I don't think that would be a reliable indicator that a potential click really is a click.  But thanks for your input.

#66

Technical Support / Normalise Twice ???

Last post by Indy33 - February 04, 2025, 12:00:51 AM

If I normalise an album but forget and normalise again will the 2nd normalise make any changes to the 1st normalise waveform???

Rick

#67

General Discussion / Re: Waveform Display Suggestio...

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - February 03, 2025, 11:05:09 PM

Hi,

I don't really see any benefit in this.  The way VinylStudio works is that any change can be easily undone, so I think it's easier to 'suck it and see'.

#68

General Discussion / Waveform Display Suggestion

Last post by GDGrass - February 03, 2025, 09:29:16 PM

I clean my records before recording in Vinyl Studio using an ultrasonic machine followed by vacuum drying but sometimes the recording still has way too many clicks – beyond attempting to repair.  At this point there is no easy way to determine how much gain is achieved by re-cleaning other than performing an auto click repair on both recordings using the same settings to compare the number of clicks.  If after re-cleaning and re-recording you could compare the waveforms of the two recordings you could actually see the benefit gained or not and perhaps make a decision as to how aggressively you should be on any additional cleaning operations if warranted.

#69

General Discussion / Click Repair Observations and ...

Last post by GDGrass - February 03, 2025, 09:27:41 PM

Having been using Vinyl Studio since 2016 and have performed quite a lot of click scanning and repair.  Not that I am an expert, but am continually learning how to do a better job at it as I go.
In searching for clicks, I noticed the following:

• A lot of recordings of records show the majority of clicks are found in the first few seconds of the music.  Apparently this is caused by the way the records are generally handled by holding the record along the recorded surface near the outer edges.  When this is the case, I usually perform an auto click repair only on the beginning of the recording and do manual searching on the balance of the recording to avoid introducing unwanted repairs on music that doesn't respond well with auto click repair.
• the right and left waveforms generally appear very similar in stereo recordings.  Of course mono tracks left and right waves are identical
• The clicks generally have a very sharp waveform spike but some music also produces a similar sharp waveform shapes too (This is especially true where the music waveform is very smooth like in soft/quiet areas)
• Many times the automatic scanning will pick up music waveforms where there is a sharp waveform change or spike and apply a correction
• Buy comparing the right and left waveforms at the correction location can help determine if indeed the correction applied by the auto scanning is indeed a click or possibly just a natural music spike or sharp change in the music waveform – I have found on music with waveforms that resemble these sharp waveforms, the auto click repair makes many correction on the music that can actually create a click.  By deleting the correction then clears the click.
• The waveform at very noticeable clicks usually show a large dB waveform departure from the surrounding music wave form which makes them easy to spot but sometimes missed by the auto correction process
• Listening to the general click location that can be heard when playing 1 second either side of the click, it sometimes helps to change the playback speed to determine if the click heard is before or after the cursor location which can help you to reposition the cursor toward the click location
• I personally have not been successful in using the spectrum view to locate a click
• Sometimes a click can be heard but I can never locate it – it may actually be something in the music that resembles a click but is not a click.
• On a generally good/clean recordings that exhibit clicks with large dB spikes, I highlight those in yellow and perform auto scan on that limited section to avoid corrections on music nearby that could be corrected as a click.

Identifying clicks is a very challenging problem and I am very happy with the Vinyl Studio program and click repair.  Just stating how difficult it is and no one size fits all, I try different techniques at different times to be successful at finding the clicks.
With all of that said, my question/suggestion is does or can the auto click repair algorithm consider the following when searching for and applying corrections:

• Large change in dB from the adjacent waveform (perhaps a user input in how large the dB change is to be used in scanning)
• Comparison of the waveform to the other channel to help determine if it is similar (maybe not a click) or much different and hence likely a real click.  This may be dependent on how much time either side of the potential click being investigated is considered and possibly a user changeable value.

#70

Technical Support / Re: How to splice tracks?

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - February 03, 2025, 08:47:50 PM

Hi,

Yes it is.  Just put a single red end-of-track marker at the end of the second side, and leave the green start-of-track marker at the start of the first side.

If there is 'dead air' between the two sides, you can use Cut-and-Splice in the Cleanup Audio window to get rid of it.