Walter Knapp wrote:
> M, J, & V Phinney wrote:
>
>>Hi All
>>
>>I'm going to make the big move of transferring many hours of bird / frog =
/
>>mammal recordings from cassette tape to digital format. My ultimate goal =
is
>>to create an instructional cd of bird songs using the local dialects I've
>>recorded. I hope to achieve this on a shoestring budget. Can anyone
>>recommend a freeware / shareware / 'demo' version of an easy-to-use progr=
am?
>>The simpler, the better...the only 'extra' feature I can think of that I
>>might need is some way to filter or edit out background hiss/hum, etc. =
Any
>>other helpful hints would be appreciated. I'm running Mac OS 9.1
>
>
> You were doing fine until you said filter. That's something that will
> put you into commercial software.
>
> Bias Peak is what I'd recommend. You can cobble something together out
> of the free stuff, but it's not going to do much more than just get it
> into your computer. There is a free trial version, and a Peak LE that
> will do all you need except the filtering.
> http://www.bias-inc.com/
>
> Walt
>
I should probably add something. Bring the files in off cassette and
save them raw, unchanged as aiff's. Back those up. Being new to all
this, you will not likely manage the best filtering right away, so
having the unfiltered files to go back to is necessary. I still do it
this way and I've been doing it for many years. I maintain a 2nd track
for processed/filtered files, and may or may not bother to back them up
depending on what it is.
Walt
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