Talk:Sample workflow for LP digitization

Peter 20Mar10: The information in this tutorial was garnered and condensed from several threads on this topic in the forum and based on a couple of draft workflows in the forum (one of Billw58's and one of mine) So my thanks go out to all the forum contributors who have provided insights and experience for this tutorial.

Those who should be mentioned in dispatches for their inputs to this tutorial (in no particular order) are:
 * pdxrunner
 * BillW
 * Mundeli
 * Stevethefiddle
 * Kozikowski
 * whomper
 * Gale Andrews - thanks for the help with the editing

And thanks to user theSeaHawk who recently gave me the nudge to finally work up my draft workflow into this proper tutorial.

Ed 1Jan13: What is the policy on images in tutorials? My expectation is that most tutorial readers will be novice users of Audacity. As such they may well benefit from the additional handholding that images provide. As an example in the section where we deal with setting the recording levels I would suggest pictures which show meters at good recording levels (and maybe even one with overdriven levels) and probably a picture of the vertical ruler between the Track Info Panel and the Wavetrack. Additionally, in the same vein, in the section where we deal with setting Audacity's project rate and sample setting, we parenthetically mention that these are the defaults with a link to the manual page describing where to control these settings. I would lean toward being a bit more proactive here; something more like "Open the Preferences dialog to the [Recordings page] and ensure that your settings are…"
 * Peter 2Jan13:Ed, this tutorial is really designed deliberately to be a bit of a 1,000 foot helicopter view.  The hand holding details are (or shoud be anyway) already present in the tutorial set Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD.  I started out writing this page may moons ago in response to several postings on the forum asking about the right order to do things for LP capture.  I would prefer to keep it fairly crisp and concise just documenting the steps rather than going into hand-hold detail with images.  It is a fairly long page already, veering tp TLDR, and I don't really want to make it longer (you may recall that that is why we split up Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD into a set of linked tutorials in the first place).  We may benefit from a few more links to that tutorial set from this concise workflow.