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| Thread ID: 30151 | 2003-02-11 23:12:00 | Analogue tape to disc | spoonz (3150) | Press F1 |
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| 120407 | 2003-02-13 21:04:00 | If you're really trying to save a bit o' space, then try reducing the frequency down from 44100, as that'll be okay I guess if you're just using it on your walkman :) But seriously, Go MP3 - Compatibility with CD-Burning software, very quick to save a file on The Beast... :-) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 120408 | 2003-02-13 21:05:00 | I'm not an expert in this, Susan, but if you are recording something which has already been sampled at 44K, it would seem sensible to use a somewhat higher sampling rate so as not to produce too many audio holes,ie not lose too much information, but if you are recording from analogue then 44Kbps should be enough, especially if it is from analogue tape where the frequency response is pretty limited anyway. But there, Im only into very low-fi :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 120409 | 2003-02-13 22:10:00 | Don't encode to mp3, your just going to loose sound quality. 41000 at 16 channel is equivalent to an output from a CD, hence that is the quality you should use. You can save wav's to CD as actual music so there is no need to encode to MP3, doing so is just another step that results in loss of quality. Note: While you are recording at 41000 @ 16bit, for CD quality, you won't acually get it as a Tape is of lesser quality, but by recording at 41000 it means it picks up as much of the correct sounds as possible. It makes no difference what programme you use to convert wav's they are all pretty much the same when it comes to encoding |
roofus (483) | ||
| 120410 | 2003-02-13 22:26:00 | If its coming from a tape, they're not CD quality by any means, so I hardly see the point of saving it as CD-Quality. MP3's are fine, even a 128kbps MP3 is better than the vast majority of cassette tapes that Ive heard/listened to! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 120411 | 2003-02-14 00:23:00 | I agree with roofus. Just copied a commercial tape onto a cd for a friend the way roofus describes,and on listening to the cd on my main system I was quite surprised at the decent sound!Usually anything I want to copy off my own tapes is on a metal or equivalent tape,which come pretty close to the sound off an LP or CD.So it's worth doing properly. Susan,I'm still using Roxio,but Nero has the ability to record onto your system.Sorry, can't remember how to get the right screen up,but I'm sure it's in there somewhere.Someone else help? |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 120412 | 2003-02-14 01:09:00 | Many thanks for all the advice everyone, I think I have it sussed now. :-) CYaBro: That program you recommended is nice and easy to use, I like it. It is really easy to record one whole side of a tape and then split it into the separate tracks rather than record each song individually. Chill: Have got the hang of GoldWave and my .wav file sizes are now what they should be -- I was saving them wrong. :p roofus: Glad to hear that any recording program will do the job. I am saving them as .wav files to burn onto CDs in order to play them on CD players and will also convert them to MP3s for listening to on the computer. The best of both worlds. ;-) Neil: I never thought of Nero, but that is on the other computer since that is where the CD writer is. Thanks for the info though. I am enjoying this! At last I can have all my favourite music to play at random on two or three CDs instead of carting around over half a dozen cassettes. And I can have all of the music on the hard drive for whatever mood I am in. Bliss!! :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 120413 | 2003-02-14 01:11:00 | spoonz: Sorry for hijacking your thread but I figured that it was OK to do so since the info might be useful to you as well. :-) Have you had a go at it yet? |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 120414 | 2003-02-14 02:10:00 | For your learning experience Chilling > If its coming from a tape, they're not CD quality by > any means, so I hardly see the point of saving it as > CD-Quality. No they are not CD quality, but by encoding at a higher bitrate you are ensuring that you get as close to the original sound of the casette as possible, if you lower the bitrate then you will get less than the quality of the casette. > MP3's are fine, even a 128kbps MP3 is better than the > vast majority of cassette tapes that Ive > heard/listened to! This is irrelevant as on this thread they want to burn them to CD's to play in there CD players. Indeed if you wanted to listen to them on computer then encoding to mp3 would be a better move (for space reasons) but if you encode to mp3 then record as an audio CD your just increasing the loss in sound quality. I hope this clarifies things for you. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 120415 | 2003-02-14 03:07:00 | Well Susan and spoonz,the Nero program has a part called Wave Editor,which will let you record from tape,Lp etc.Just in case that helps!In Roxio/Adaptec,it's done under Soundstream/Spin Doctor. B-) | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 120416 | 2003-02-14 03:15:00 | Susan,just curious.If the cd writer is on the other pc,how do you transfer your data to it? Or is this where the network comes in? Have had nothing to do with that side of things,yet! | Neil McC (178) | ||
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