Digitizing Vinyl with your Devialet 120/200/250/400/800

[Eddye]

Now that Devialet have made the USB port bi-directional, you can easily digitise your vinyl collection. This thread is to collect experiences and questions for this particular function of the Devialet range.

Tips:
Make sure you have the correct firmware version.
The correct firmware version is 7.1.1 but the files should have a date/time stamp "01/08/2014 15:25” (or later).
The earlier version of 7.1.1 unfortunately doesn’t work. The date Devialet uses on the website is: 2014-08-02

Download Audacity (Freeware) for your particular Operating System (Mac OS/X or Windows), and install. Of course you can use the software you prefer, there are other options (see below)

If you use Audacity, follow the instructions in Devialet document: http://en.devialet.com/assets/pdf/bi-dir-tutorial.pdf

It’s important to check if you have selected the Devialet USB as an input device of your PC/Mac, before you start recording. Also remember to select the same sample rate in your Audacity project that you selected as input sample rate.

After you record 1 side of the record, save your project. You can then select the parts you want to export as a music file (a selection would typically be a single song).

There is other software available for digitizing, for example:
Alpinesoft Vinylstudio: http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/
Channel D Pure Vinyl: http://www.channld.com/purevinyl/

[marcor]

Now that Devialet have made the USB port bi-directional, you can easily digitise your vinyl collection. This thread is to collect experiences and questions for this particular function of the Devialet range.

Tips:
Make sure you have the correct firmware version.
The correct firmware version is 7.1.1 but the files should have a date/time stamp "01/08/2014 15:25” (or later).
The earlier version of 7.1.1 unfortunately doesn’t work. The date Devialet uses on the website is: 2014-08-02

Download Audacity (Freeware) for your particular Operating System (Mac OS/X or Windows), and install. Of course you can use the software you prefer, there are other options (see below)

If you use Audacity, follow the instructions in Devialet document: http://en.devialet.com/assets/pdf/bi-dir-tutorial.pdf

It’s important to check if you have selected the Devialet USB as an input device of your PC/Mac, before you start recording. Also remember to select the same sample rate in your Audacity project that you selected as input sample rate.

After you record 1 side of the record, save your project. You can then select the parts you want to export as a music file (a selection would typically be a single song).

There is other software available for digitizing, for example:
Alpinesoft Vinylstudio: http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/
Channel D Pure Vinyl: http://www.channld.com/purevinyl/

Unluckily I am swamped at work but I was planning to give a test at this software as well.
https://www.izotope.com/en/products/audio-repair/rx/
It is more generic than the above mentioned but seems it used quite a lot in the restoration industry.
I am not sure what kind of control gives the user regarding the acquisition compared with purevinyl. That could be a weak point. As soon I get out of this crazy period I will download the different demo versions and see what works best.

M

[colonel66]

nice intro step by step guides for ripping vinyl if using:

Mac

Windoze

[marcor]

nice intro step by step guides for ripping vinyl if using:

Mac

Windoze

Just a note that the software used in the Windows version now are available for mac as well.

[Eddye]

I think, if I have the time this weekend, I'll try out PureVinyl. There's a 15 day trail. It looks interesting.

[marcor]

I did some tests using audacity. Just to figure out input and levels following the discussion on the other thread.
This is the plot of 7 seconds of Touch Me from The Doors' The Soft Parade. Second press, red label.
Full of informations up almost to 95000 Hz. now that curve on a cd ends at 22k ...

[adstew]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing the graph. What cartridge and settings are you using?

Adam

[marcor]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing the graph. What cartridge and settings are you using?

Adam

Hi Adam
I use a Air Tight PC-3 with pretty much the cartridge suggested settings. Only variation is the load that I think is suggested between 50 and 100 and after a bunch of test I decided to use at 70 ohm. Here the complete list
Moving coil
550 µV
70 Ω
0pF

Analog input of the D250 is 192 kHz same goes for the input settings of the computer and Audacity.

Marco

[adstew]

Thanks.

[thumb5]

I did some tests using audacity. Just to figure out input and levels following the discussion on the other thread.
This is the plot of 7 seconds of Touch Me from The Doors' The Soft Parade. Second press, red label.
Full of informations up almost to 95000 Hz. now that curve on a cd ends at 22k ...

Excuse me for being sceptical, but this graph doesn't convince me that there is any useful information from the recording process in the range 20-95 kHz. Frank (f1eng) knows infinitely more about this than I, but I doubt when that recording was made that the recording chain would be capable of capturing information above ~20 kHz, never mind encoding it accurately onto vinyl… On the other hand I can understand how there could be noise and distortion in this frequency range.

Still, it comes down to whether you like what you hear, and in that sense what the graph shows doesn't really matter in the slightest.