This is a simple batch to describe as it consisted of a trawl through Beethoven’s symphonies. We have two recordings of the Eroica one of which (Sanderling and the Philharmonia) is about half as long again as the other (Karajan and the Berlin Phil). Also Karajan doing no. 4 and another recording of no. 2 (a Supraphon of Kletzki and the Czech Philharmonic). There are some recordings by Jochum and the LSO: the 9th,8th and 5th, with the Fidelio overture as a filler. I believe that the length of a CD was set so that a recording of Beethoven’s 9th would fit on a single disc, and indeed it does.
I’ll describe the set up where I record. The laptop sits next to the turntable, with the pre-amp connecting them. The LPs are ranged around in a couple of boxes, a pile, and a row lined up against the wall. The LPs I’ve recorded are all together, in approximately the order I recorded them. The sleeve of the currently playing LP is propped against the side of the pile, rather as a record shop displays ‘what’s playing now’. Other equipment includes a big drum of blank CDs, an album for the finished ones, a set of marker pens, a brush for cleaning the discs, another brush for cleaning the stylus and a small bottle of stylus cleaning fluid.