From: Mark Griswold <>
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> Hello all,
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> I have a long recording that I would like to burn to CD, with new track
> numbers at significant points.
>
> I have cut the piece into chunks using Peak LE on an OS 9 Mac and then
> used Toast to burn the CD.
>
> I set the inter-track pause to 0, but there are still "hickups" between
> tracks when I try to play the whole thing through. I was hoping that it
> would play through as one long piece.
>
> Is there a trick to doing this using my setup? Is there another method
> or software package that would be more appropriate?
A quick way, which I think Peak LE can do is to put a short fade in and
fade out on each track. This insures no click. The click is usually a
oddly truncated soundwave created during editing, not a problem of the
burning software. Though some burning software can mess up too. Using
the fade you insure this won't happen. The fade can be as short as a
tiny fraction of a second. Will not be noticed as a gap.
I've used regular Peak for a long time so not sure on Peak LE's
capabilities. For burning I've always used Jam, same company as Toast,
but a specialist in burning red book compliant audio CD's. Intertrack
gaps are fully settable in it, including overlapping. Toast has just
fairly generic audio CD burning.
A neat thing Jam allows is to set crossfades between tracks. If the
material is well matched this will result in no noticeable transition at
all, not even a sudden change in material. Jam's standard equal power 2
second crossfade was used on the Georgia frog CD's chorus tracks. On
listening to that species just come and go, it sounds like one long
track, not the bunch of tracks it is. Covering from winter through
spring and on into summer. I'd just put it together as a example of
something they could do in mastering, but the studio doing the mastering
had nothing as good for such things, so they used mine.
Note Jam's crossfades like I use actually shorten the overall length as
they start the new track fading in before the old one fades out. There
are a bunch of options to set exactly the crossfade you want. Typically
you set the timing of the crossfade start, the official track transition
time and end of the crossfade. If you play a specific track you will
have it start at the transition point. You also have a number of
crossfade curve options. You can have it so the overall volume rises,
lowers, or stays the same through the crossfade.
If you upgrade to Peak 4.1, they are bundling Jam in with it right now.
Not sure if that works with OS 9, I've been OSX for a while. It may be
just the OSX version of Jam. The current version of Jam is not as stand
alone as it used to be, it organizes the material then feeds it to Toast
as a disk image to do the actual burning. I only recently upgraded to
Jam 6, so have not discovered what all they changed or added.
Note Jam will also preview your proposed CD without burning, so you can
check if it's right. I strongly recommend Jam over Toast for burning
audio CD's.
Walt
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