on 18/4/03 10:23 PM, M, J, & V Phinney at 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
>
> Feel free to respond offline if this has already been covered a hundred
> times before.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Mark Phinney
>
To Mark Phinney,
In looking for a minimal-budget set up for CD quality computer editing, I
chose an iMac, and Peak LE VST sound editor. (I'm running OS 9.1). I inpu=
t
the sound via the analogue input on the iMac and if done correctly the soun=
d
in the computer is indistinguishable from the original on either DAT or
compact cassette. Nothing added, nothing taken away. When I transfer from
my compact cassette recorder (Sony WMD6C) I power it with batteries and
position it several meters away from the computer, so that I don't get any
added hum.=20
"Peak LE VST" editing software is excellent and inexpensive, worth the
investment, and may come with a free Waves noise-reduction program
"AudioTrack". "AudioTrack" works like a graphic equalizer, would be ideal
for you, I should think. You will need to buy a CD burner, which most
likely will come with free CD burning software like basic "Toast" which
should work fine.
I don't agree with the comments by Charles Deneen:
>
> So what do you use to get into the mac ? If it=B9s indeed the analog inp=
ut
> like you=B9re describing, good luck getting that =B3grain=B2 out. It=B9s=
pretty
> bad, really......
I have no trouble with 'grain', with analogue input to my iMac. Hope this
helps!
Vicki Powys
Australia
>
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