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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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Can you try cutting it,as in cut and paste ?There has to be an edit tool on it somewhere.
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Begorrah!

I feel so cheap now... :|
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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... :innocent: :twisted: )
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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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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.
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.
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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! :D
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Thanking Yous! :D :notworthy:

Holy Shit! there's an whole bunch of 'fannying about' as can be done in this prog. :eek:

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It does plug-ins too, but that way lies madness... :lol:
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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 :D
Highlight 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".
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 gone :D
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I think I need to go lie down now...
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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 :D
Highlight 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".
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 gone :D
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.
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James Blast wrote:I think I need to go lie down now...
@James -You mean you have finally realised that a "LIE DOWN" was in order to preserve your (and our) remaining sanity

Sorry mate - really could NOT resist - and I AM only Joking! ;-)
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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 :eek:

It's so much quicker & the options for editing & mastering seem to be endless.
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James Blast wrote:Thanking Yous! :D :notworthy:

Holy Shit! there's an whole bunch of 'fannying about' as can be done in this prog. :eek:

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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 :D
Highlight 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".
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 gone :D
He can try to remove the tape noise using a Baxandal algorithm on the 50 or 60 hz range :twisted:

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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 :roll:
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