How to Convert Vinyl LP Records to CD
- 1). Open Pro Tools and create a new session.
- 2). Click "File", "Save", and then name the Pro Tools session.
- 3). Select "Track", "New Track", and create 2 new mono audio tracks.
- 4). Name track 1 "Left" and pan it 100 percent to the left. Name track 2 "Right" and pan it 100 percent to the right.
- 5). Set the input of "Left" to Pro Tools input 1, and set the input of "Right" to Pro Tools input 2.
- 6). Take the left output of your record player and plug it into Pro Tools input 1. Take the right output of your record player and plug it into Pro Tools input 2.
- 7). Play back the record you would like to convert to CD and adjust the input gain of input 1 and 2 while doing so. Adjust the gain so that the average peaks of the "Left" and "Right" tracks are at the same level. Make sure that the inputs do not peak during playback.
- 8). Arm tracks "Left" and "Right" for recording by pressing the record button on each track.
- 9). Arm Pro Tools for recording by pressing the record button located in the transport at the top of the edit window.
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Press play in Pro Tools to initiate recording. - 11
Start playback on the record player. - 12
Stop the record player once the audio has finished playing. Then press stop in Pro Tools. - 13
Highlight the audio that Pro Tools has recorded and edit out the dead space at the beginning and end of the recording. Then select "File", "Bounce to Disk." - 14
Name the audio file that you are bouncing, choose where you would like to save it and click "Bounce." - 15
Close Pro Tools once the bounce has finished. - 16
Open iTunes. Select "File", "New Playlist." - 17
Name the new playlist that appears in iTunes. - 18
Click "File", "Add to Library", and select the file that you bounced from Pro Tools to import it into iTunes. - 19
Drag the imported audio file from the iTunes library into the playlist you created.
Click on the playlist to highlight it. - 20
Click "Burn Disc" in the bottom right-hand side of iTunes.
Insert a blank CD-R and select "Burn."