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krj
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response 110 of 119:
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Jul 15 03:08 UTC 2002 |
So the new toy here is the Windows 2000 PC, a significant upgrade to a
1999-vintage Dell PIII 500 mhz machine which I acquired used.
The chip is a bit slow, but it's loaded with memory and disk (or it
will be loaded with disk when I get the replacement for the out-of-box
-flaky drive from the manufacturer...)
The relevant upgrade here is the USB 2.0 card, which makes the
USB Plexwriter race along at quite acceptable speed.
To write a 54 minute CD, the new rig took
4 minutes 40 seconds. I think that will be fast enough.
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goose
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response 111 of 119:
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Aug 9 20:37 UTC 2002 |
FWIW Plextor drives are held in high regard in the audio world.
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krj
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response 112 of 119:
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Mar 6 23:12 UTC 2003 |
resp:107 :: so we did buy the Extigy USB soundcard-like-thingy, and
then it sat around for a year gathering dust. This weekend I
hooked it up to see about making recordings from MiniDisc --
right now we are trying to make a CD of Leslie singing some songs,
to send off as an audition disc for a program she wants to
participate in.
I need more gain! Mickey talked me through all the windows gain
settings he knows about, and everything I can find on the Creative
Extigy software is maxed out. I thought the recording level
meters were broken, but I finally got them to flutter just a bit.
So I need to figure out which will sound worse: raising the volume
by about 300-400% in the digital editor (Creative WaveStudio),
or patching in a tape deck to use its input amps to boost the
signal. Come to think of it, I have a damn fine Nakamichi tape
deck gathering dust in the basement....
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krj
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response 113 of 119:
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Mar 7 02:30 UTC 2003 |
I also need a better WAV file editor. The Extigy comes with
Creative WaveStudio, but darned if I could figure out how to
delete or divide a file with it.
Still, it feels good to be making forward progress at last.
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other
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response 114 of 119:
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Mar 7 05:41 UTC 2003 |
Sounds like you need a preamp...
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tpryan
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response 115 of 119:
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Mar 7 22:34 UTC 2003 |
I'm making a PC recording from Mini-Disc right now, myself.
(The Dementors concert from ConFusion 2003).
LIne in of the Vaio PC sound card is doing good enough, but
I do use a DJ mixing board to control volume. It goes into the
SoundForge XP sound editor from Sonic Foundry. The full suite
(which I don't have) can be an expense program. I think this editor
would be about $90 if you find it by itself. Very percise editing
is possible. I can shape fades (in and out) within whatever time
frame. By placing markers in a big file (such as taking in concert),
a double click to select between two markers allows me to copy and
paste to a new file. Which is what I will want to do on this one,
so I can have the tracks on the CD touch each other without
silence between the tracks.
It also has pitch control. But instead of me wanting to
make something double speed, I have to increase the pitch by
12 half steps of an octive. It thinks in music more than I
do. Swap tracks, mix to mono, volume changes, dynamic expansion,
and more stuff than I seem to be able to learn.
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krj
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response 116 of 119:
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May 6 22:06 UTC 2003 |
Hmm, I misremembered Tim's response above as an endorsement of Cool Edit,
which is a product he doesn't mention at all. I'll have to look up
SoundForge now.
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goose
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response 117 of 119:
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May 13 14:49 UTC 2003 |
I'll endorse Cool Edit Pro. It's an amazing program for $249.
The noise removal algorithms are quite good, lots of other features,
although a bit of a learning curve of you've not used similar editors.
30 day free trial at www.syntrillium.com
I'm currently setting up a Linux box to try out a bunch of the Linux
audio tools that have cropped up as of late....actually not so much cropped
up as matured to the point of solid usability.
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scott
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response 118 of 119:
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May 13 15:02 UTC 2003 |
I'm definitely curious about Linux audio these days - I had put together a
pretty nice set of programs to do basic stereo stuff (mostly moving vinyl to
CD) but never took it any further.
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goose
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response 119 of 119:
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May 13 17:37 UTC 2003 |
I've got a list of 7 programs I want to play with: Audacity, Sweep, Ardour,
Ecasound, Rosegarden(?), GNUSound, Rezound.
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