Metal for Melbourne
February 7, 2006Donna bought me a turntable (remember those?) for my birthday back in December. Its got a built in pre-amp, so I can easily hook it up to my PowerBook with a RCA -> 1.5mm input adapter. And it works a treat! I’ve been using it a lot lately to rip some of my old vinyl.
The process of ripping the vinyl and converting it into audio (mp3) is a relatively simple task thanks to Audacity — an open source audio editing suite, complete with mp3 libraries and available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The instructions here helped me get up and running in no time at all. Warning: the burning process itself is time consuming! You’ll have to manually flip the LP’s and also tag the audio file with track names. You can also play around with the audio so that you can remove some of the ’space’ at the front and back ends of the recording. The quality of the audio is suprisingly good.
I’ve been digitising some of my old ‘Metal for Melbourne’ labelled stuff that — as far as I know — was never released on anything other than vinyl, and is unlikely to be. I’m so rapped to be able to listen to some of my all-time favorite riffs! If anyone is aware of if/where I could lay my hands on some of this material on CD, I’d love to hear from you. Specifically, I’m interested in mid-80’s local metal bands such as Taramis, BlackJack, Nothing Sacred, Tyrus, Rampage, Prowler etc.
Rock on!
March 31st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Hi Daryl, you mention some pretty good melbourne mid 80’s bands. I ran Twilight Records here in Perth (opened ‘83 cosed ‘92), Metal for Melbourne and Utopita were our Eastern seaboard cousins. Do you have any demo tapes/live recordings of any Melbourne/Sydney 80’s bands. If so are you interested in trading MP3’s? You never know I may have something you’d like. I do have things like demo’s of prowler, renegade, nothing sacred, blackjack, shaft, treason etc etc
cheers
Stuart
Perth, WA