So, that little annoying bit of noise was actually from the LP, and not a computer or tape problem. The more I hear it though, the less I mind it. Anyway, I rereorded Zep III onto a fresh cassette, but this time I used type 2 instead of type 1 tape, just because I prefer the sound quality.
Originally, I was going to do this one album at a time, but I recently decided it would be much more efficient to make a whole bunch of tapes first, and then rip them up after I run out of blanks.

Right now, I'm putting Jim Steinman's album Bad For Good onto tape. He's one of my all-time favourite songwriters. According to Meat Loaf's book To Hell and Back, this was originally supposed to be the follow-up album to Bat out of Hell, but Meat and Jim had a bit of a falling out, and Jim ended up doing all the lead vocals instead. And then, of course, Meat recorded Dead Ringer, another great album of Steinman-penned songs.

'Ello there, I've decided to come online and try some of this blogging crap. I'd like to tell you about my Digital Archive (MuSick) Project. It's a big project, and it will take a long time, so I guess it's technically a hobby. What I'm doing is copying musick from analog sources onto CD-R.
So far, the only one I have completed is the album Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin. I chose to burn this classic LP to compact disc before I even planned on doing this as a hobby. The reason I chose this album is simply because it only sounds good on vinyl. I had the digitally remastered compact disc years ago, and compared to the vinyl version, it sucked. I wanted to have on CD again, but I wanted it to sound right this time.
After the Zeppelin experiment, I was quite pleased with what I'd done, so that's when I decided to do some more. Led Zeppelin III and Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell are ready to go.
One of the reasons this project is so time-consuming is thatmy stereo and my computer are in very different parts of the house, which means moving equipment around. Hooking my turntable up to my computer is out of the question, since the guy who repaired it decided not to put the shock-absorbing springs back on. This, combined with the fact that the pitch control sometimes likes to "get jiggy with it", makes me afraid to even touch the thing. The solution to this problem is copying the record to a cassette, and then hooking the cassette deck up to the computer and letting 'er rip (Get it? Rip? It's a pun! I'm so clever). I would love to cut out the middleman and spend less time on it, but hey, it's well worth it.

I ripped my tape of Zep III last night, but when I played back the CD, there was an annoying hard-S sound on the vocal on one word of one song. This will not do, but luckily I test it out on a CD-RW before I make a permanent copy. I'm going have to listen to the tape and find out whether or not the problem lies there.