Yes, for only $119 you too can get your vinyl painstakingly digitized, complete with clicks, pops and skips!
Got mine yesterday, now it’s just a matter of time before my mid-80’s buggy serenades me on my commute with all the syrupy goodness of Asia, Loverboy, Twisted Sister, Air Supply,and Huey Lewis!
Now…where to begin? Fritz The Cat soundtrack? Pink Floyd’s Saucerful of Secrets? Ah, here we are! Cheap Trick at Buddakan!
Oooh, I’ve got Strawberry Shortcake’s Picnic Jamboree stored at my dad’s house somewhere…and Shirley and Squirrelly’s Christmas album…and my sister’s Shaun Cassidy albums with the lipstick kisses all over them…and The Village People.
On second thought, maybe I should just burn them. Well, all except Shirley and Squirrelly.
We use Goldwave software to digitize the old LPs. It’s a neato moment when you hear yer old Beatles records with their pops and skips on an ipod.
My Mom has a lot of tattoo’s, Scottish folk singers and Nana Mouskouri that I would love to get digitized. I also have a really hilarious record by a comedian telling bible stories that was given to me as a kid (I don’t think they quite realized it was more adult oriented… well, it did have a kindly guy in a Mr Roger’s sweater and a bunch of kids around him…).
I wouldn’t mind getting my Chipmunks Christmas record done, and some of the children’s records for my son.
One of these days I’ll get one…
Inigo,
Which one did you get? How does the quality sound? My wife would love to get rid of our old vinyl collection (or at least put it in storage), so I have been looking for reviews of the various options/models available. I’m thinkig Christmas present for her.
I have a cheap Denon with a built in pre amp that I can plug directly into the computer via the wee microphone jack. The USB table has no dust cover and therefore I cannot accept it as a record plyer.
Just thought I’d chime in to plug THIS nifty little plugin for anyone using recording software. It will take your clean recordings and actually put vinyl sounds back into them! Very cool lo-fi sound, and it’s free. I like applying it to some jazz songs I have to give it a little more flavor.
I suppose buying one of these, recording my last remaining vinyl album and then returning it would be on the shady side, huh.
Nope, just make sure you put all that music on bittorrent so we can all download it! 
We have a local record store that will transfer LP’s for a fee. That’s a good way to escape the shady thing. A shadier method is to return the turntable and then tell a friend so they can get an open box deal. I’ve always wanted to do this but it seems so wrong…
That will get you a first class seat in the proverbial handbasket…Enjoy the ride lol 
I am so thinking about looking into maybe pondering something that I could use to convert my vinyl to digital without having to be a whiz. There’s treasures in the record pile, I tell you, treasures! Really, for music lovers who’ve been accruing collections since grade 8 like me, there is either not money or storage space enough to buy it all again on CD, and a lot of the stuff I have on record, I just can’t seem to find on CD.
When we moved, the records and stereo stayed sadly packed away for a long time, imprisoned in the big closet, er, second bedroom, by other boxes. Then I heard an MP3 that started with a needle settling down, and the familiar sound of a record playing, and I got the shivers, and have pulled a few records out to play.
There’s something about hearing the pops, the noise, the needle, that’s unbearably, sweetly, fondly nostalgic. I suspect I’m in the last generation to feel or understand that. I’d like to keep those sounds in when/if I too get an lp digitizer thingee.
And where’s the link to the product!?
I get much more satisfaction from playing an LP than a CD, especially when we have friends over for dinner. Furthermore, if darling Smanata and I can manage the transfer, it is not that difficult. We have now begun accruing the collections of friends in exchange for digitizing a few choice slabs of vinyl. An entire box of obscure dub from tiny Jamaican and New Jersey labels in exchange for a few burned CD’s is a wonderful thing.
I’ll have to check when I get home–got it at Costco on impulse (there goes my allowance for the month!). It has a really annoying background whine, but I’m sure I can get rid of that by adjusting some setting or other. And the software it comes with (“Audacious”) has is a “noise filter” where you sample a few seconds of noise on your record (needle dragging through the groove and striking dust, mites, cattle, etc) and it will take it out of the recording. Pretty easy to eliminate clicks & pops too. Still mucking around with it, but you certainly don’t need to be whiz to operate it. Giving it a 6/10 for justout of the box. Once I learn the software & setup that will probably improve.