Roger, the setup is the hardest part--at least it has been for me. Once GoldWave is set up and ready to go, press Control+n for new file, make the correct choices from the dialog box that comes up. Press control+F9 to start recording, then start your source material. When the playing has finished, press control+F8 to stop recording. Then do control+s to save your work. Choose the name, file type, and where to put it from the "save as" dialog box.
When I'm ripping cassettes or vinyl, I usually want to manually split the file into separate tracks later on. So, while recording, I press control+q between tracks to drop a Q point. Then, when finished, I split the file using GoldWave's tools | q points dialog. The way I do it is certainly not the only way--maybe not even the best way, but it gets the job done. If you need more than this, I'll put together a step by stpep instruction. It'll make me feel like I'm back teaching again. In my working days, I created all kinds of these sets of instructions.. Good luck. Howard ----- Original Message ----- From: <roger.so...@virgin.net> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:30 AM Subject: Re: Recording level in Goldwave > Hi Howard > > I’ve been putting my CD collection onto an external hard drive using CDEx > and found a set I bought that is heavily protected and will not allow this. > The discs will play in a non-pc CD player but not on any computer player, > so the intention is to hook a CD player up to the PC sound card and add the > CD's to the hard drive that way as we did when transferring the cassette > and vinyl collections. I used Magic Audio Lab for this then but no longer > have that software, even if I did it may not be compatible with Win 7 anyway > so the intention was to use Goldwave. Except I don’t know how, seeing your > post tells me you obviously do so could you give me a quick tutorial on how > it is to be done, please. > > Many thanks Roger > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Traxler > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 11:42 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Recording level in GoldWave > > I've been ripping my LPs, open reels, and cassettes to .wav files using > GoldWave. The volume level of the resulting files vary by quite a bit. I > can't get an idea of just how much until I finish editing and convert them > to mp3 files. I then use MP3Gain to get them to the level I want. Not > really understanding the measure of level in decabels, I just make them all > 94 which sounds ok to me and is close to how loud my JAWS with Eloquence > talks. > > I'm wondering if there's a way that I can tell earlier in the process if I > need to raise or lower the recording level in GoldWave? > > Any suggestions? Thank you. > Howard > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
