I have most of the Smothers' albums on vinyl...used to belong to my father.

I haven't hear it? Good grief, since we got spell checking, I've gotten sloppy about rereading for obvious errors.

Are you insinuating I'm elderly? :lol:

When I was going to school in Boston, I'd buy the albums there for my buddy's wife because they were hard to find in the sticks.

Anyone who still has vinyl is elderly.
Anyone who can *play* it is a fetishist.
Anyone who can rip it to MP3 is a geeky fetishist.

That would be me.

Geez, I've never been called "geeky fetishist" before. I don't know if I should be insulted or say thank you. :mg:

Take it in the spirit in which it was offered. :-)

Here's another disk my father had. I don't have the originals, unfortunately

I take it he was into audio pretty heavily. :blunt:

It's only fetishist if you actually do play it. I mean, I have rope in my house (and latex!) but that doesn't make me a part of the BSDM scene.

Well in order to rip vinyl, you've got to be able to play it. My turntable is hooked to my PC as I slowly transfer all the old vinyl to digital.

So your saying it's your actions, and not the tools, that define your bondage fetish. :lol:

Indeed he was...although by profession he was a clergyman. Ultmately he was a regular contributer to The Journal of Church Music...but his interest in music was much broader than that.

That RCA recording (it was on loan; he didn't own it) he played for me in like 1957..in those days he was also an elementary school science teacher at Pen Ryn, whic in those days was an Episcopal parochial school. The mid 1950's--the Sputnik era--was a truly amazing and magical time to have a science teacher in the family.

what program do you use to record the vinyl to your pc? i.e. how do you go from analog to digital? May be obvious to some, but not to me. I've a bunch of vinyl I'd love to transfer.

Foot if you have a sound card you can get RCA to Mini jack cables at radio shack ( or sum such ) hook these up to your line in , there are MANY adio progs available , some free and some pay , when you get one make sure you can play with the sound levels and convert to MP3

It's not obvious or trivial to get good digital transfers from vinyl. But it's not impossible. One of the main difficulties is the setup, which makes the prospect of transferring many albums more appealing--bulk rates, so to speak.

A friend and I have agreed to undertake digitizing each of our record collections this summer. It's not past the pencil and paper stage, though. I'll keep you updated as events warrant.

Older turntables need a phono preamp?

My turn table has a preamp built in , if yours doesn't you could just hook it up to a tuner ( stereo ) and use the tape 2 output , again rca to mini cable .