I would get a 78-optimized needle for my turntable, set it for 45 RPM (since it doesn’t have 78), and capture it through a high-quality ADC. Then I’d speed it u

I would get a 78-optimized needle for my turntable, set it for 45 RPM (since it doesn’t have 78), and capture it through a high-quality ADC. Then I’d speed it up in post. I’ve done this. I imagine that contributors use different methods. Old record players used thorn needles (as in plant thorns). A purist might do that and record from the player’s horn with a mic. One annoyance I encountered in capturing old mono content is the lack of a filter in the audio software I’ve used that would keep only the mono content of a stereo recording. A lot of the crackles on a mono record are in stereo, being on only one side of a groove.