Subject:What program is right for me?

Posted by: DorianDW

Date:8/7/2003 10:14:43 AM

I want to be able to record cassettes, Mini disk, and LPs to CD. I want to be able to clean up the LPs. Also, reduce a booming bass on the mini disk recordings. Any suggestions for a good program?

Dorian

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: rraud

Date:8/7/2003 1:26:34 PM

SF-6, CD Architect and the Noise Reduction plug in. If your buget alows all three. I've seen CD Architect w/ the Noise Reduction plug for $150 alot lately.

Cool Edit (now known as Adobe Audition) would also work but is not as user friendly as SF.

Having a quality sound card and/or good A/D converters is VERY important.

These threads should also be of interest to you:
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp? MessageID=204039&Replies=2&Page=1

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: DorianDW

Date:8/7/2003 8:52:43 PM

My budget doesn't allow for all three. Could I get by with just CD Architect? Would I be able to reduce the bass with this, I have some live stuff where the bass is completely over-powering the rest? I really don't want to do anything too complicated, just record a large file from a cassette, then track the individual songs without silence in between and burn it.

Are there any good informative web sites about creating music CDs? I don't even know what terms like normalization mean.

Thanks,
Dorian

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:8/7/2003 10:41:22 PM

You can't record with CD architect. You can burn to CD using Sound Forge and also EQ. Sound Forge comes with an arsenal of plugins to get the work you want done. Sound Forge only supports a Track-at-once recording option. What this means is that you can only burn one track at a time onto a CD and the tracks will default to being 2 seconds apart from each other. So if you need the ability to have CD tracks one after the other, you won't be able to acomplish this. Maybe another solution you should look at is Vegas. Vegas, you can record, and burn CD's and is a multi-track with a ton of plugins, you can easily reduce that bass you're talking about. You can play back, and record another track at the sametime with Vegas.

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: msterlin

Date:8/8/2003 10:22:11 AM

DorianDW,
It sounds to me like you are just getting started with the process of converting cassettes and lp to CD and probably don't want to break the bank on relatively expensive software that takes awhile to learn properly (SF full version, Vegas, CD Architect) so let me suggest a cheaper approach that may work well for you.

SoundForge Studio XP 6 is a scaled down version of SF and should be sufficient for what you want to do (it's all I've ever used and I do exactly what you want you to do). It doesn't support plugins like the full version, but you can probably reduce the bass to your liking using the Equalizer and achieve at least limited noise reduction using the Noise Gate function. As far as burning, most CD-R/RW drives nowadays come with Nero which can burn Disc-At-Once (and you can set the gap between tracks to 0). I think even the latest version of Easy CD Creator can do DAO as well. Even if you have to buy a copy, either is less than $100.

So get SF Studio (download $70, retail $99) and Nero (free if it came with your burner/computer or $99 retail) and I think you can accomplish what you want. As you gain skill using them, you can always then go for the more powerful full version of SF and CD-Architect.

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: DorianDW

Date:8/8/2003 7:00:51 PM

With Sound Forge Studio 6.0 can I take a large file of a bunch of songs then add markers and split the marked areas into different files? Or do I have to record each song individually to get the seperate tracks/files? Can I do this with the full version? I was messing around with a trial download of Voyetra's Audio Surgeon and it will do this but has no equalization capability.

Dorian

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: msterlin

Date:8/8/2003 11:15:21 PM

Yes you can split a large file into individual files with SF Studio, but it is a somewhat manual process as opposed to using the full version. If for example, you record one side of a cassette to a single file, you can then go in and place markers between the songs. Then double click between the markers to select a song, Ctrl-C to copy that selection, and Ctrl-E to paste it to a new window, then save to a new file.

The full version has a useful function that converts markers to regions and can even auto name those regions, but the studio version can accomplish the same thing if you dont mind the few extra steps.

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: Vocalpoint

Date:8/9/2003 8:00:27 AM

Dorian,

What is your budget if you don't mind me asking?

Cuzin B

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: DorianDW

Date:8/9/2003 9:22:31 PM

My budget is about $150 maximum. But, I can get Sound Forge full version for that because I get a student discount.

Dorian

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

Reply by: JakeHannam

Date:8/23/2003 4:18:57 PM

SF-6, CD Architect and the Noise Reduction plug in. If your buget alows all three. I've seen CD Architect w/ the Noise Reduction plug for $150 alot lately

Does anybody know where you can this package mentioned by rruud? I don't see any package deals on the SOFO site. Actually, I would like to upgrade Sound Forge 5 to Sound Forge 6 WITH Noise Reduction but have not been able to find any such package offers.

Anyone?

Subject:RE: What program is right for me?

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Date:8/23/2003 4:48:51 PM

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