Fixing Vinyl Flaws in Pure Vinyl™

Fixing Vinyl Flaws in Pure Vinyl

Pure Vinyl incorporates features to streamline this tedious (but ultimately rewarding) task. Iconic overlays applied to the vinyl image accurately depict audible blemishes and peaks. Interpolation and sample cloning can be used to clean them. The peak finder is invaluable in setting proper levels. Just click on a peak in the list (generated automatically during vinyl rendering) and the record rotates and stylus moves to the exact location of the peak / pop on the disc image.

"Fixed" edits can be incorporated nondestructively during playback of high-resolution master transcription (if used). Pop fixes can be applied when exporting individual tracks. Again, the original file is preserved, and you always can go back and modify your edits.

Third party software can be used with Pure Vinyl music files for overall restoration or noise reduction, if desired.

The peak/pop editor also can be used to "calibrate" the "rotational speed" of the vinyl image. Turntables are subject to rotational speed error. However, the periodic nature of the scratches on the record surface can be used to advantage. At 33 1/3 RPM, a scratch or blemish across two or more grooves will be repeated at an interval of exactly 1.800 seconds. A future release of Pure Vinyl will incorporate this into precision pitch correction of exported music files (that is, when we are satisfied with the quality of the resampling algorithm we are developing). Currently, the calibration can be used to create a rotationally exact replica of the vinyl disc.