OLympus Announces DM-4 and DM-2 Digital Audio Devices

2010-02-11 Thread Rays Home
RNIB here in the UK has sent a message to at least one list here about these recorders to be released in June of this year. Little detail as yet, but they're said to support TTS and DAISY format recording. More at: http://www.photoxels.com/pr-olympus-dm-4-dm-2/ Sorry if this has reached this

Re: n-Track Studio 6.0.1 Released

2008-10-27 Thread Rays Home
This is interesting as I've often wanted to use multi-track laydown to get a more layered effect, albeit for predominantly documentary-type work. My question: Is it rather tedious to work with multiple track mix-down without the benefit of something like a control surface? I mean, how do you

Re: Any users of AudioVault?

2008-10-25 Thread Rays Home
I'd like to know a bit more about what this software does if you could please. AsloAlso, specific parts of it that might not work well with screen readers generally. Scripts could be written for more than one screen reader now to make this workable if that is possible. Ray. - Original

Re: Free Audio And Video Converter And Editor?

2008-10-16 Thread Rays Home
Surely the site Anything but an IPod has been mentioned, http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ But mention it because for those who aren't necessarily into IPods then here you will find reviews of players accessories and software which, though not written from an accessability standpoint could noneth

Re: J-Tunes 4.0 is released!

2008-10-15 Thread Rays Home
Wonder if I dare wade into this. obviously [EMAIL PROTECTED] about to, first with comments on scripting and pricing, second with general comments about ITunes. Surely what Brian and others charge for their efforts must reflect some notion of the work done and time taken. Above that, it's wha

Re: J-Tunes 4.0 is released!

2008-10-15 Thread Rays Home
Wonder if I dare wade into this. obviously [EMAIL PROTECTED] about to, first with comments on scripting and pricing, second with general comments about ITunes. Surely what Brian and others charge for their efforts must reflect some notion of the work done and time taken. Above that, it's wha

Re: J-Tunes 4.0 is released!

2008-10-15 Thread Rays Home
Wonder if I dare wade into this. obviously [EMAIL PROTECTED] about to, first with comments on scripting and pricing, second with general comments about ITunes. Surely what Brian and others charge for their efforts must reflect some notion of the work done and time taken. Above that, it's wha

Sample of Victor Stream Notes recording

2008-10-09 Thread Rays Home
Here as promised is a short sample of a recording made at a training session around aural history. Not made under ideal conditions as there's a fair amount of traffic noise coming through an open window. It was a hot evening. Victor notes recording.mp3 File will be stored for: 7 days Link to

VI Player Launch date

2008-10-09 Thread Rays Home
Afraid this may not be of much interest to those outside of the UK, but according to the VI Electronics website launch is 1st. November 2008. I'd begun to doubt whether it would launch at all given the success of the Victor Stream but let's see what happens come November. Ray. Launch date of

RE: Recording quality of victor reader xtreme

2008-10-09 Thread rays-home
I agree with what Bruce and others have said about the recording quality of the Stream. Remember that, unlike the Edirol and similar recorders it sin'isn't stereo and the quality is much less. It is very adequate for speech recording though as long as you aren't way back in an audience and reason

RE: information on the plextalk pocket

2008-10-09 Thread rays-home
Yes, I would be very interested in this one if recording quality is high via mics. Hope someone in the UK will give us a shout as to when it's available here. Ray. Wonder if the recording quality will be the same as the ptr 2? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[

Re: re a good quality mike

2008-09-20 Thread Rays Home
Assuming you are prepared to pay a fair amount for this microphone, then the two names that come to mind are S E Electronics - a far east Company - and Rode. for more on the S E electronics mikes take a look at: http://www.inquitaudio.co.uk/html/news.html which is one of the pages of Inquit Aud

Re: re a good quality mike

2008-09-20 Thread Rays Home
Assuming you are prepared to pay a fair amount for this microphone, then the two names that come to mind are S E Electronics - a far east Company - and Rode. for more on the S E electronics mikes take a look at: http://www.inquitaudio.co.uk/html/news.html which is one of the pages of Inquit Aud

Audio computer

2008-09-20 Thread Rays Home
Billy asked on another thread about my audio computer set up. Bear in mind the UK references here. A fairly long message just to warn those not much taken with the topic or UK standpoint. Bear in mind the computer is now over four years old, but it is a 3GHz dual core processor with 1kb of ra

Re: opnions wanted about flat panel speakers vs regular speakers forcomputer and stereo recievers

2008-09-20 Thread Rays Home
My only take on this one is that flat panel speakers are very likely of poorer sound quality the larger models. As it happens I use an external amp and speakers on the machine I'm writing this on which is set up for audio and uses a M Audio Delta soundcard and I get very good sound from this se

Re: Sound forge question

2008-09-03 Thread Rays Home
Hi, I have a "Power Users Guide" in print to Sound Forge 7 and 8 and I'm pretty sure that advanced batching and scripting options are available only in Sound Forge 8 and beyond. This would allow, surely, for complex tasks such as combining many smaller files into one large one. (Isn't there a

Re: Any interests in me making MP3 tutorials on Replay Converter 3.05+

2008-08-28 Thread Rays Home
Yes, I'm interested, but try and make such a tutorial more applicable to screen reader users generally please, after all I know a lot of people using screen readers other than JFW. Ray. - Original Message - From: "Petro T. Giannakopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Any interests in me

Re: Sony Noise Reduction and Goldwave

2008-08-25 Thread Rays Home
Hi, believe you can indeed use the Sony noise reduction with Goldwave as I'm pretty sure Goldwave supports Active X plugins. Ray. - Original Message - From: "Samuel Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Sony Noise Reduction and Goldwave > Hello everyone, I am thinking about buying the

Re: Sony Noise Reduction

2008-08-21 Thread Rays Home
Um, well, the link to a trial download is at: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/noisereduction You aren't suggesting are you that someone will givbe out a "crack" here? Well, what people do off list is their own affair, but I don't know of any 'cracks' anyway and to my mind it is well worth bu

Re: Fwd: Total Recorder V7 just keeps getting better

2008-07-15 Thread Rays Home
Yes, I've give all due respect to Apple and OSX but this continually repeated "trash box" phrase seems almost calculated to get up people's noses. Cheers, Ray. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fwd: Total Recorder V7 just keeps getting b

Re: Solutions Radio web Radio (for Gary and Aad)

2008-07-13 Thread Rays Home
May I make a short comment within this thread? Here in the Uk the Talking newspaper for the Blind charity, and now Wireless for the Blind Fund -Yes, it's really called that! - are distributing the Orion web radio but many here are less impressed. Seems the voice tagging of the stations you can

Winamp cutting of end of M3U files

2008-07-10 Thread Rays Home
This is on behalf of a friend not subbed here. He's perplexed by Winamp cutting off the last few seconds of streaming audio. The same files played in Windows Media Player play propperly to the end. Any one here know how to put this right? I've a suspician it could be something to do with buff

Re: Info on MP4 for audio please

2008-06-12 Thread Rays Home
MP4 for audio please > Hello Ray, > I don't know very much about MP4's, but I do know that you can create them > in NERO. > So you may want to explore that and see how far you get with it. > Good luck! > My best regards. > John. > - Original Message -

Info on MP4 for audio please

2008-06-12 Thread Rays Home
I'd like some info and pointers to the benefits of working with MP4 for audio, and some pointers to hardware, software players, encoding - in fact all about it really. The trouble with searching the net is that it seems MP4 is a broad standard covering video and audio and a great deal else. S

Re: recording with Victor Stream

2008-05-10 Thread Rays Home
Yes, quite agree. The sensitivity of the internal mic is very good too and one could quite easily record a small round table meeting using it. If anyone has used an external mic with the Stream I'd like to hear about it as folks here on the UK Stream list have said they find it hard to find a

Re: CD Copying machines

2008-05-04 Thread Rays Home
Looking at results via Google most info on the Addonics machine seems at least a couple of years old. Don't seem to be many suppliers, if any, in the UK. Cheers, Ray. - Original Message - From: "Gary Schindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2

Re: CD Copying machines

2008-05-04 Thread Rays Home
Hi. I did look on the Alesis site to see if they still do there quite reasonable priced CD copier, but couldn't find it. Still, I'll take another look. One thing I should have said is that consumer level machines work only with audio Cds, not CD ROM discs as used in PCs, which are cheaper. A

Re: CD Copying machines

2008-05-03 Thread rays-home
Well, yes, suppose rippping is what you do in copying the original CD into a program such as Nero; but then Nero makes the process of copying from CD to CD very easy and will do it at 16x or maybe more - though good reliable audio copies are done at no more than 16x. The commercial consumer CD co

Re: CD Copying machines

2008-05-03 Thread rays-home
Don't know about the "best" place, but knowing you live near Birmingham I'd say try Richer Sounds or Super-Fi in Smallbrook Ringlway. Mind you, if you are doing a limited amount of CD copying then as you've obviously got a computer using that might be more economical. Cheers, Ray. > Hello. I wou