![]() ![]() In doing so, the group acted as the bridge between the ’70s AOR and ’80s MTV, shepherding a transition from faceless arena rockers to flashy video stars.īrothers in Arms benefited greatly from MTV. Musicians came and went with regularity during the group’s heyday, the cast changing as Knopfler and Ilsley refined their silvery, slithery hybrid of British progressive rock and American country-a curious, improbable fusion that Dire Straits made seem logical, perhaps even inevitable. Yet singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler’s fame quickly eclipsed the rest of the band, including bassist John Illsley, the only member who stood alongside him in every one of the group’s incarnations. Their 1985 LP Brothers in Arms was a blockbuster on par with Thriller, Born in the USA, and Purple Rain for nearly a decade, it held the title as the best-selling British album ever, before being dethroned by Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?. Take Dire Straits, who were by any measure one of the biggest rock bands of the 1980s. This seems to support, at any given time, venue, and equipment deployment a best outcome.Stats don’t lie, but the tales they tell can be misleading. ![]() What I do instead, is equalize to taste utilizing my Digital Library's equalizer. I also have no interest in equalizing while digitizing vinyl. I do not equalize while in the analog domain because I have no means to do that. If you would like to have fun on a rainy day, get a phono pre-amp with no RIAA EQ, connect to the scarlett-2i2 as above and try doing the RIAA EQ in software. If you would like to use the scarlett-2i2 as your ADC (the device has good reviews btw), you're much better off getting a good phono pre-amp that will do RIAA EQ, and all you need is to connect the phono pre-amp out to the line input on the scarlett-2i2, and off you go! I went down the path of choosing a phono pre-amp with multiple RIAA EQ settings (ifi-iPhono2) and never looked back. IMO, things like doing RIAA EQ in software when it is readily available in any standard phono pre-amp is asking for unwarranted labor, which mostly ends up in futility. I'm a firm believer, after having learnt the hard way, that any adjustment in audio quality, when digitizing vinyl should be done in the analog domain. arlett-2i2 Can you connect your turntable direct to the interface and use the input gain to amplify the signal from the turntable? If so, how do you connect your turntable to your ADC/usb interface? I understand you need to bypass the RIAA of your phone preamp to do so or eliminate your phono stage/preamp altogether. ![]() It's all fun and iTunes expands the fun.Īny views on whether the sound quality from PureVinyl exceeds that of VinylStudio?ĭoes anyone have any experience ripping while using RIAA EQ in software (with either of the 2 software products)? As mentioned earlier, my $99 X-Fi HD gets the job done, yielding digital files indistinguishable from LP when volume has been accurately matched. Finally you do not need a high priced today ADC to get a "best" result. Now, my LP's converted to ALAC sound better than the orginal LP, since they're devoid of pops, and can be easily equalized to my taste with application of iTunes Equalizer. It's just saving time by eliminating need to search or enter track metadata and preventing do-overs to correct track metadata, simply exporting finished file from sound editor to CD-R or CD-RW and then, importing CD content to iTunes Library, whereby iTunes will locate and insert metadata for all tracks. Besides, IMO my LP's sound better than any rip I've made even with some borrowed high priced ADC's.Īll of my CD's have been ripped and along with high res downloads reside on an HDD. The time required to make the original RIP is real time. Even so that's more LP's than I'll ever get around to ripping. In any case, I've winnowed my LP collection down to ~1K from 3500+. ![]()
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