My program for sucking audio off my old cassettes (Sound Studio) stopped working today. So, I went looking for something else and found Audacity.
Question#1: I started recording a bit earlier than the track started, so how to I circumcise all that 'dead air' from the recording, as opposed to starting all over again?
NB. I is Mac, but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of cross-platform common ground.
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I use a bog-standard WAV editor - record the entire side of the tape in one session and then chop it up song by song. Convert to MP3 at the compression rate of your choice. Looks like Audacity offers the ability to "Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files", so it's in there somewhere.
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Standard is to just select/highlight the part you wanna chop and press "Delete" (or whatever the Mac equivalent is, probably apple-shift-control-W or something wacko like that... )
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Question#2: now I have a .aup file, what "fannying aboot" (a technical term used in the design world) can I do to it?
The end of my test track slides into another tune, I'd like it to fade before the next one starts.
Question#2: now I have a .aup file, what "fannying aboot" (a technical term used in the design world) can I do to it?
The end of my test track slides into another tune, I'd like it to fade before the next one starts.
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Using the WAV editor you should be able to highlight the last couple of seconds of the track and then use the Fade Out function - this will probably offer you the choice of how far you want it to fade (0% being silence) - based on the use of Creative's Wave Lab.James Blast wrote:Okay, Messers. P. & C. Smarterse
Question#2: now I have a .aup file, what "fannying aboot" (a technical term used in the design world) can I do to it?
The end of my test track slides into another tune, I'd like it to fade before the next one starts.
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(Mr PC Smarterse just remembers he has Audacity installed...)
Click and drag to highlight a selection.
View | Various Zoom commands to zoom in/out.
Edit | Delete to delete the highlighted selection.
Effect | Fade In/Out to fade in or out.
File | Export as WAV to generate a Wave from the AUP.
Should get you going!
Click and drag to highlight a selection.
View | Various Zoom commands to zoom in/out.
Edit | Delete to delete the highlighted selection.
Effect | Fade In/Out to fade in or out.
File | Export as WAV to generate a Wave from the AUP.
Should get you going!
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Holy Shit! there's an whole bunch of 'fannying about' as can be done in this prog.
Holy Shit! there's an whole bunch of 'fannying about' as can be done in this prog.
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You may also want to highlight the silence between the tracks and use the "Noise Removal" tool to get rid of any hiss
Takes a minute or so to remove the noise (depending on the size of the file) but it does mean that any tape or machine hiss is now goneHighlight the noise > Edit > Noise Removal > then it's something like "get noise profile" > then highlight the entire waveform > edit > noise removal > click on "remove noise".
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That's the one thing I miss from Cool Edit...erm, Audacity...now that I'm using SONAR. Of course, it probably means I've not found a noise removal machine in SONAR yet. Which is mildly embarrassing as I've been (ab)using it for a few years now.robertzombie wrote:You may also want to highlight the silence between the tracks and use the "Noise Removal" tool to get rid of any hiss
Takes a minute or so to remove the noise (depending on the size of the file) but it does mean that any tape or machine hiss is now goneHighlight the noise > Edit > Noise Removal > then it's something like "get noise profile" > then highlight the entire waveform > edit > noise removal > click on "remove noise".
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I used to use Audacity, but it always seemed to have problems & often buggered up the sound to a certain extent.
I since changed to Adobe Audition.
& if you think there a lot of fannying about in Audacity, then just take a look at Audition
It's so much quicker & the options for editing & mastering seem to be endless.
I since changed to Adobe Audition.
& if you think there a lot of fannying about in Audacity, then just take a look at Audition
It's so much quicker & the options for editing & mastering seem to be endless.
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Holy Shit! there's an whole bunch of 'fannying about' as can be done in this prog.
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He can try to remove the tape noise using a Baxandal algorithm on the 50 or 60 hz rangerobertzombie wrote:You may also want to highlight the silence between the tracks and use the "Noise Removal" tool to get rid of any hiss
Takes a minute or so to remove the noise (depending on the size of the file) but it does mean that any tape or machine hiss is now goneHighlight the noise > Edit > Noise Removal > then it's something like "get noise profile" > then highlight the entire waveform > edit > noise removal > click on "remove noise".
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If it's just chopping tracks up though, CDwave editor is perfect really.
It's prolly only compatible with monkeysoft though
It's prolly only compatible with monkeysoft though
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