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November 15, 2006
New Toy
I can't believe I didn't buy one of these sooner: an Ion LP-to-MP3 turntable converter. My friend Jeff Rutherford told me about this thing, and I booked it over to Circuit City the next morning and bought one. Turning LP tracks into mp3s takes a while, but it's fun, and ultimately you can do interesting effects and edits with songs, etc etc. There's so much terrific music from the 80s that has never made it to CD, so that's where I've been starting. (Ie, one of the first things I converted, pictured below left: BEEHEAD, a terrific Sweatbox Records ep from 1987 by the phenomenal Perennial Divide. The photo on the right is the machine... worth every one of those 14,000 pennies I spent on it.)
Posted by scottheim at November 15, 2006 05:08 PM
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How dumb am I that I didn't even know this sort of thing existed -- not to mention a model that's so (relatively, considering the amount of music you're netting) inexpensive? This will definitely be on my list of Christmas gift possibilities for my husband (who's probably the one who would actually take the time to convert our LPs).
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at November 16, 2006 04:13 PM
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