I find recorded vinyl sounding much better as CD source material, especialy when you use .wav instead of mp3.

Surely the fact that we're all using SSL means that we've stopped kidding ourselves about the mythical sound quality of vinyl.

Not really....
IMHO mp3's made from recorded vinyl sound much better as ones ripped from CD's. It's even better when using .wav instead of mp3.

Maybe.

I think its half placebo effect and half nostalgia for a certain 'type' of sound, I listened to a load of old hip hop tapes that i hadnt heard for years the other day and all that early/mid 90s hip hop sounded better in a weird way.

Like "U can't touch this"?

You get used to anything after a while, even mp3 sound quality ;)

Lossy compression (like mp3) makes a part of the original dissapear (otherwise it would be lossless compression), if you listen close enough you will notice.

I definitely prefer the 'clean' digital sound I get from SSL, but still regularly mix in ordinary vinyls thru my sets and they do have that special something... the warmth, the crackles... ahhh the nostalgia ;)

I do think it'd be great to have some form of rudimentary ripping functionality within SSL to record your normal vinyls as they are played thru the SSL hardware.

My question is not really what sounds better, cd's or vinyl.. My question was to the effect of if you rip vinyl, and play ssl vinyl, will u get a "double vinyl" sound. I really dont know how else to explain it.

What is a double vinyl sound?

Hmm. I think what he's trying to say is that if the things he ripped would sound like vinyl, would playing it thru SSL give it that vinyl sound twice? Kind of hard to explain though.

no double vinyl sound as the sound is coming from your laptop not the control record. your songs will sound exactly as they are recorded. no added vinyl crackles, hiss or rumble.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, man.

Can someone give me a suggestion of a vinyl ripping program??

www.scratchlive.net Check out this post for some information, man...