Using Izotope Vinyl with Audacity in Windows 7 64bit

Izotope Vinyl is a great free plugin for making recording sound "old." It's straightforward and reproduces sounds of records from the past. Here's how to get it working in Audacity (note, I could not make it work in SoundForge 5.0 or 10.0 in Win7-64)

1. Install audacity beta
2. Install Izotope Vinyl (Windows will say it didn't install right and give you the option to rerun with the correct settings-- go ahead and do that)
3. Go to Audacity's plugins folder
4. Copy the Isotype Vinyl VST dll to audacity plugins folder (probably located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\VstPlugins)
5. Start Audacity
6. A prompt asking for Izotope registration info will appear-- enter in Izotype Vinyl license info (received by email from the Izotope download page)
7. Apply izotype from Effects menu

Some quick usage info:

• The older the time period you set, the thinner the sound gets
• "scratches" adds dropped out audio
• dust adds good ole hissing sound
• wear makes the general quality of the recording sound worse
• mechanical noise simulates turn table
• electronic noise is 60hz hum