Ostriig on 13/8/2009 at 00:23
Woo, done! Took me a couple of hours, just finished, but it seems to have turned out fine. For some unflattering reason, I didn't check in Audacity's Preferences first, and I knowingly did a full recording on mono. Then, I got the laptop back to my LAN cable, hit google, and lo-and-behold, all I had to do was switch Channels to stereo in the first bloody tab in Preferences (
Fafhrd, could you have had the same problem?). So then I recorded it again, which also gave me an opportunity to adjust the input volume setting, since it was too high on my first go.
It sounds surprisingly good overall. I burned it to a CD for a final check with the deck player, rather than through my laptop, and it sounds good. The record has been through better days, though, so there's quite a bit of noise and the occasional crackle. I
may look into whether it can be filtered out or not, I'm not yet sure of whether I'd want to keep it just for nostalgia's sake. I'll still have to cut them two side recordings into songs, though.
Ironically, I've now spotted the CD on Amazon, and quite cheap too. I don't remember it being there when I last looked a few months ago. Oh, in case anyone's wondering, the record was
Francis Goya in Moscow; (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlvAKwniYlo) this was the only song from the album that I've found on Youtube.
Anyway, thanks again for the help, people! :)
theBlackman on 13/8/2009 at 07:27
Audacity has plugins (if not in the application) that is a Vinyl scratch and pop filter to remove those sounds.
I''ve not used ADUA for a while so I can't help you with a talk through, but I know that there are a handful of "noise" filters in Audacity and the plugins.
Good luck, and I'm glad you fingered it out. :)
theBlackman on 13/8/2009 at 20:17
You don't need an amp. If you have the files in your computer as Raw WAV files, you can re-open them in Audacity and use the clean up tool.
I don't suggest you record from the CD, as the files have been changed to a different codec from the WAV you recorded originally.
If you have a WAV file, then open it in Audacity, apply the CLICK filter and then save the new file with a SAVE AS :new name. You can preview the new file before you save it. If it is good, then go with it. If not you still have the original, as well as the SAVE AS to do more work with.
Ostriig on 13/8/2009 at 21:42
No, I meant I just wanted it hooked up to an amp so I can more easily tell what's going on, sound-wise, as opposed to just using a pair of headphones fed directly by the computer output. Back in the UK I've got my own setup, whereas here I'd have to connect the laptop back to my father's deck. I realise that the integrated audio that leads into my amp is still technically a bottleneck, but one way or another, it's an altogether far better audio experience when I've got the amp in-between. Though I should really look into getting a proper audio card one of these days...
As for the Audacity project files, yup, got them all saved up, I wasn't planning on doing another recording. :)
theBlackman on 13/8/2009 at 21:53
In that case, I suggest this approach. If you have a stereo amp and speakers at home, feed the LINEOUT from the computer into the AUX/LINE in on your stereo system.
Play the wave files from the computer and use the speaker system on the Stereo system as a monitor.
You don't need anything except the original files, the stereo system and speakers, an appropriate Audio-out cable from the computer to the stereo and Audacity.
The stereo becomes your monitor system just like a pair of earphones. The onboard sound chip should not be much of a bottleneck if you do it this way.
Most chips are not that bad now days. A good sound card offers a few more options, and in some cases a better quality sound, but your chip should handle it.
It is the funky computer speakers/earphones that are the real bottleneck. Unless you have a very expensive top-of-the-line speaker setup.
Go with the stereo as a monitor. It should be more than adequate for what you want.
Ostriig on 13/8/2009 at 22:13
Oh, that's already set up, mate, I've been using my PCs hooked up to external amps for several years now. Thanks for the advice, though! :)
theBlackman on 14/8/2009 at 06:54
Quote Posted by Ostriig
[...]I realise that the integrated audio that leads into my amp is still technically a bottleneck, but one way or another, it's an altogether far better audio experience when I've got the amp in-between. Though I should really look into getting a proper audio card one of these days[...]
This earlier post mislead my comprehension of what you were saying. Sorry about that. :)
Albert on 14/8/2009 at 08:41
I forgot: is a record Stereo, or Mono?
Ostriig on 14/8/2009 at 13:03
theBlackman, no worries, maybe I just expressed myself poorly, I do that sometimes.
Albert, records have been Stereo from around the 60s onwards. At least Wikipedia claims the first commercial Stereo records (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone_record#Stereo_sound) hit the market in 1958.
