And that’s the day when I usually do a little informal tidying up in my little room to try to make the place look a little respectable.
And so why, you wonder, is it looking like a total tip right now?
The answer is that I have been busy doing other things, and that has created a mes entirely all of its own.
I’ve sorted out the Prolectrix USB record turntable that I bought hundreds of years ago in ASDA in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK.
It has been sitting in its box for all of that time doing nothing in particular and as the summer, when I normally have loads of spare electricity, is slowly passing by, I reckoned that it was time to do something about it
I discovered a box with “LPs” written on it clearly visible in the European Cardboard Box Mountain downstairs when I was doing some tidying up a while back and so I brought that up here and unpacked it.
And this is where the problems started because despite what was written on the box it was full of all kinds of other stuff too. And all of that, I’m afraid, ended up scattered all over the floor as I’ve been rather preoccupied.
Had the thing worked right out of the box as I imagined it might, I woud have been all done and dusted a long while ago but it took ages to figure out how it all worked.
Nothing happened at all when I switched it on and don’t say “why didn’t you look at the manual … "PERSONual" – ed …?” because it didn’t come with one.
Ohh yes, I surfed the internet to look for one, and did 100 other things too, including changing all of the fuses and eventually after much binding in the marsh I hit on the solution.
The reason why no notice light comes on when you switch on the power is because there isn’t a notice light. And the means of starting up the turntable is to take the arm off the arm rest and move it across to the album.
The sound doesn’t come across in the USB cable either. There’s a built-in cable with two RCA plugs, and while I have do an RCA lead with a stereo jack on one end, the RCA connectors on that lead are also plugs.
And I don’t have a plug-to-plug converter lead.
As for the program that comes with it – “Audacity”, it’s called, I don’t think too much of that either. No automatic track-seeking, no automatic scratch and rumble filter.
In other words, all of the editing has to be done by hand, and that will take forever.
Oooooh for a copy of Polderbits or something similar. When I had a copy of that for recording my tapes onto CD, you could hardly tell the fact that it was not an original CD.
I’m going to be hard-pushed to do that with this program.
