can i ask: how can i record with goldwave? I'm using it for editing, but is it good in recording?
thanks cheers ramy ----- Original Message ----- From: "shawn klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 12:10 AM Subject: Re: questions concerning GoldWave and files > Hi Terri. Well, is your recorder plugged in to line > in? If so, can you hear the audio through your > speakers? You know, it may be you're recording at > different volumes at different times, or does the > volume control on the tape player never get touched? > If volumes are too high, you'll distort because your > sounds are peaking too high and the wave form is > flattening out there where it's trying to go too high, > that's called flat topping, and it sounds all > scratchy. You want your record volume both on PC side > and recorder side just low enough that the loudest > parts of the sound won't do that. The noise reduction > feature is quite easy. First of all, the reduction > envelope. What you want to do before you start noise > reduction, is take part of the sound that is totally > quiet. If there's some dead air between songs or just > before the show, select that with your left and right > brackets. Copy it to your clipboard, then control+a to > select the whole sound again, then go in to the noise > reduction dialogue. Check the reduction envelope radio > button that says use clipboard, select it with your > arrow keys. This works great for me, it's the best > option. I live in the country, and record the birds > and cows out my window and send mp3's to friends > sometimes. There are plenty of quiet parts, and noise > reduction really takes out the hiss from my sound > card, and makes it sound like I used a professional > setup. Then there are the following controls.I > experimented, and the settings I use are fft size of > 12, it takes longer but it's worth it, it'll sound > much cleaner, overlap at 95, the scale usually I set > it around 85, any higher and the quiet parts have a > digital warble mumble that doesn't sound natural. The > hiss removal preset sounds like what you want. > Sometimes I get a lot of hum, so I use reduce hum, but > if it's really bad and I feel I can do without the > base, I'll just turn down the lowest band in the > equilizer, takes that right out. I've never even > messed with the noise gate much, when I did, I didn't > really like the jerkiness of it, so I just use noise > reduction, and it works fine for me. If you don't have > a technical understanding of all of this, I can see > where the manual might confuse you, but you can always > just experiment with different combinations to see > what you like. Just make some short test files and go > crazy with them. Insert silence? Well you just pick a > length of time you want silence, and hit o.k, put a > start marker where you want the silence. If there is a > clean break between the commercial and the program, > i.e. they don't run together, then it'll work the way > you want, but if the show starts before the last notes > of the commercial are gone, you'll just have to > compromise. Personally, I'd just delete the > commercials, lol. Hope this helps. > Shawn > msn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > kb7clx on skype > --- Terri Stimmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I've got a couple of questions, and I'm hoping that > > someone can help me out. > > I'm using GoldWave version 5. > > Every week I record a radio show onto tape, and then > > I go and put it onto > > the computer. However, a lot of times the files > > come out with some sort of > > distortion. And it's not always the same thing. > > Most of them always have a > > slight background hiss, but other times the quality > > just sounds poor. > > I don't always use the same stereo, when recording > > these shows, so I'm > > thinking that might be part of the problem. > > Sometimes, I use my stereo, but > > other times I use my boombox. > > Then when I go to put the show onto the computer, I > > use a small tape player > > that's always connected to my computer. > > What I'm wanting to know, is how can I get the > > quality of these files to be > > better? > > I'm not sure if I have the sound files set up wrong > > when I go to do the > > recording, if that plays a part in it all. > > Usually, when I create a new sound I'll set it up in > > stereo, the sampling > > rate will be at 44,100, and the other sampling > > feature is set on manual. > > Are these fine where they are? > > I always save my files as mp3's, I prefer that over > > anything else. Usually > > when I save them, I save it at 128 mb. I wouldn't > > mind saving them at a > > higher bit rate, but I share these with someone > > else, so that's why I just > > save it like I do. > > Does anyone have any suggestions, or am I doing this > > just fine? > > Also, I've been trying to figure out how to use the > > noise filtering feature, > > however I'm not having much luck. I've read the > > manual, but it really was > > of no help to me. > > Whenever I try to remove the background hiss out of > > a file, it always ends > > up sounding distorted in some way. I cant figure > > out what I could be doing > > wrong. I don't understand a lot about those > > settings, and I know that's > > part of my problem. > > I've tried messing with the different settings, > > hoping that I'd figure it > > out. But I haven't. > > Can anyone give me suggestions on this as well? > > And I've got one more question. > > What exactly is the insert silence feature, and how > > does it work? > > Would I be able to use it if I were recording > > something that had > > commercials, and I wanted a bit of silence, between > > where the commercials > > had been, and the different parts of the file? > > Any help with this will be much appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Terri > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email > > to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! 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