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Subject:importing from audio cassette
Posted by: doormouse
Date:8/19/2003 5:09:30 PM
i'm real new at this so any help would be great....i want to take music from audio cassettes and burn them to cd's...i have a y-adapter set up and the sound comes out of my computer speakers....now where do i go from here? i'm totatally lost on figuring out how to retrieve from the cassette and getting it into sound forge |
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Subject:RE: importing from audio cassette
Reply by: Rednroll
Date:8/19/2003 6:27:49 PM
Top right corner of Sound Forge>Help Menu. Look up "recording. You'll find everything you need to know about setting sound forge up for recording. |
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Subject:RE: importing from audio cassette
Reply by: keether
Date:8/20/2003 9:55:26 PM
Yes, the Help files have extensive instructions. But why don't you do this first. 1) Put your cassette into your player, which has 2 audio-out cords in a Y to the line-in on your computer. 2) Double-click the little speaker at the lower right-hand corner of your screen to bring up the volume control. Click Options, Properties, Other, and be sure "Line In" is checked. (On my previous computer, this fell under "Recording.") Click the little Select box. 3) Launch Sound Forge. Click the menu item Special, and go to Transport, Record. This brings up the "Sound 1" window. 4) If it doesn't read "44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo" then click New... and select those attributes. 5) Under Mode, choose "Automatic retake." 6) Now click the word "Prepare." You get a green flasher. (This step isn't really necessary.) 7) Now it's time either to (a) turn on your tape, or (b) start recording, whichever you wish to do first. Say you start your tape knowing you have time to click the little round "Record" button before the music actually starts. So do those two things. 8) You won't see anything happening in the Sound Forge window except the clock which tots up the seconds. When the tape is over, click the square blue Stop button. Recording will stop. 9) Now click Close. The file you have just recorded will appear in the Sound Forge window as a waveform. You've digitized or digitalized it. Whichever. 10) You should immediately Save and give it a name. It'll be pretty big (100+MB). 11) You can play your new file by pressing the spacebar or by clicking on the appropriate buttons. You can cut out a long silent lead-in by selecting that part and hitting the Delete key. 12) You created a .WAV file by saving the file. This can now be burned onto a CD. It won't be in tracks. To make separate tracks, you have to cut your big file up into pieces. I'm sure you'll figure out how to do that. 13) Now go read the Instructions in the Help file. |
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Subject:RE: importing from audio cassette
Reply by: Rednroll
Date:8/21/2003 10:52:14 AM
You might want to check the "monitor" button also. This will allow you to see the peak meters working in realtime with the audio feeding the input of your soundcard, so you know you infact have everything setup correctly. It will also allow you to ensure you have a proper record level of that input. Without this, those 13 above steps will be a waste of time. |
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Subject:RE: importing from audio cassette
Reply by: keether
Date:8/21/2003 10:59:11 AM
Absolutely. Sliding the vertical volume control button in the little line-in window can help avoid clipping (losing quality due to excess volume). |
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Subject:RE: importing from audio cassette
Reply by: doormouse
Date:8/29/2003 6:48:17 PM
thank you all for your help....it was easy enough after i read what you each sent....all is going good now...thanks again.. |