Quote from: Apesbrain on 2024-07-25 00:48:09

In all likelihood, your A-T turntable is fixed to 16/44 output

16 it is, but with a choice between 48 and 44.1. At least that is the case for one of their current models (and not the most expensive) - I didn't check more.

Quote from: Apesbrain on 2024-07-25 00:48:09

so Audacity with default settings should work fine. Just keep your recording levels below 0 dB.

Yeah, digital clipping would be a disaster.
But A-T aren't amateurs, they must have set volume reasonably? They claim a S/N ratio of "> 50 dB", so there could be plenty of headroom when the output is 16 bits.
(If it were too loud, I guess there is nothing you could do about it without changing hardware - like, pick-up?)

Edit: Note, some of them offer Bluetooth. That will transcode to a lossy of varying quality (possibly SBC). I don't know if that will even be audible, but just don't. Plug it in for USB.

Quote from: Marin30 on 2024-07-24 19:50:13

Quote from: Apesbrain on 2024-07-24 16:06:29

What equipment do you have available for doing this?

Hello, thank you for your answer. I am using a Vinyl Player Audio Technica with USB for transfer.
Any good suggestion for MAC and the best configurations for best audio rip?

In all likelihood, your A-T turntable is fixed to 16/44 output so Audacity with default settings should work fine. Just keep your recording levels below 0 dB. Save your work as AIFF and when finished use iTunes or XLD to convert to Apple Lossless.

Quote from: Marin30 on 2024-07-24 21:19:35

I need to export in lossless so no more sound deteriorations are made.

Personally I would export as .wav and then convert that to the desired format afterwards.  If file size is not an issue, then sure, lossless if you want.  Just understand that any loss of quality due to using a lossy format will be totally insignificant compared with the loss of quality due to recording from vinyl.

Quote from: Marin30 on 2024-07-24 22:44:07

Do you have any suggestions for the settings I should set in Audacity for the best rip?

There are no settings.  You'll see a microphone input level, all you need to do is make sure there is no clipping (the waveform display is always below max).  Hopefully your USB turntable has RIAA built in, if not you can apply it to the captured sample afterwards.

Once you have captured the sample, top and tail it and then save to .wav.  Then you can look at removing clicks and hiss and save it again (different filename).  By saving at each stage you can always go back to a previous point in the process.  Once you have your final version, save it as final.wav (or whatever) and convert that to final.flac (or whatever).

Most of what you want is on the Effects menu, and you have to select all (Ctrl+A) to define what section the effect is applied to.  If you don't know Audacity it's a learning curve, but there is plenty of reference material and it's useful to know if you do any audio manipulation at all.

Quote from: Marin30 on 2024-07-24 22:44:07

Thanks for your answer. Do you have any suggestions for the settings I should set in Audacity for the best rip?

With Audacity as it's multi-track digital audio editing software, you can export a Wav file out of the box but you need the FFMPEG add-on to export to other formats: https://lame.buanzo.org/ffmpeg.php

FFMPEG is multi-platform and is it's own tool for encoding and decoding various digital formats both lossless and lossy and common and obscure formats and it has a MAC version as well: https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/

FLAC is multi-platform for compressing exported WAVs and AIFFs and is the most well known of lossless formats and has a MAC version: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/flac

WavPack is multi-platform and has a MAC version and is similar to FLAC: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wavpack

Of course there's Apple Lossless (ALAC) as well.

I'm not a MAC user by any means but I know a lot of stuff in this area tends to be multi-platform.

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