Using the software Vinyl Studio, you can record vinyl records in the Sound Lab and make digital sound files.
This guide will show you the very basic way to do this.
On the Sound Lab Mac, click on the Vinyl Studio icon to launch the program.
Close all the popup windows.
Click on "record".
Time to get the album info and track listing. Click on "Lookup Album Online".
In a browser, go to the "Discogs" website. Search for the album title in the "search collection" box. (Not the search box that's crossed out.)
Find the album and click on it.
Find the Discog code, which is a number in brackets with an r in front.
Back in Vinyl Studio, make sure the first radial button is selected. Then paste the number you copied from Discogs into the "Release No." field. Then click "continue".
Click on "Use Selected Listing"
Click "Record".
Wait for the text here to say "Waiting for needle down". This means that it's waiting for the record to start playing.
With the record on the turntable, press the "start" button.
Vinyl Studio will record the album as it plays. Once the record is finished, the program will pop up a window. Click "continue" and flip the record over or click "cancel" to stop recording.
Now Vinyl Studio has created one huge file for the recording. It needs to be split up into separate song files. Click on the "Split Tracks" tab.
Now you see the waveform of the recording. The red/green flags represent the beginning of a new song. These need to be adjusted. (For this example there are a lot of extra flags because only side 1 of 4 was recorded.)
Zoom in to see the waveform in more detail.
You can see where the waveform has quiet spaces. These are the silences between songs. Click and drag the red/green flags so that the lines are close to the spot where the waveform becomes loud again.
The "1" and "5" buttons will play that number of seconds before and after the cursor location. Use these to hear if the red/green flags are in the right place. If not, re-adjust the flags and tweak until the song starts at the correct place.
When you're satisfied, click on "save tracks".
Make note of where the songs will be saved.
Choose the file type you want the songs to be or leave it at default.
Click "save" and Vinyl Studio will split the waveform into separate song files. That's it!
Vinyl Studio has many more capabilities which you can learn about in the help files. This guide is meant to get you started with the basics. See what else you can do with the program!
