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transfering audio tape to cd using soundforge
I'll be using soundforge 6.0 to do the transfer and I'll be using a
rca Y cable to connect the tape deck to my soundcard. Can anyone give me any tips on how to get the optimal sound transfer. (possibly any special way to record it or what to do to the audio once its recorded on the hard drive. I deffinetly want to to try to reduce the tape hiss once I get the sound recorded on my hard drive. I've used various noise reduction tools in the past but have never been satisfied with the results. Whenever I reduced the noise on any audio I always noticed a significant amount of loss in the quality of the audio. I've used dart pro and sound forge's noise reduction plugin in the past so it wasn't lack of good software that was the problem maybe I wasn't doing it right. Appreciate any tips on that as well. |
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transfering audio tape to cd using soundforge
leroy wrote:
I'll be using soundforge 6.0 to do the transfer and I'll be using a rca Y cable to connect the tape deck to my soundcard. Can anyone give me any tips on how to get the optimal sound transfer. (possibly any special way to record it or what to do to the audio once its recorded on the hard drive. What kind of tape? Does the tape have tones on it? Is it a regular tape or a cassette? If it is a cassette, do you have an easy way to ride azimuth? --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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transfering audio tape to cd using soundforge
I'll be using soundforge 6.0 to do the transfer and I'll be using a
rca Y cable to connect the tape deck to my soundcard. I do use sf6 all time for transfering. You dont say where you are feeding the "Y" from. If its in the leads from the turntable it wont work you need a pre amp. If its from your tape out on your tuner/amp then feed it into you line in on your sound card. Set your bass and trebble controls flat .. dont let peaks hit red i stay about -6 and then after i do all eqing i use normalize to bring up to "0". For best results some kind of processing is desirable to remove tape hiss or low end noise such as turntable or room rumble in the original casette. You may want to try cleaning up the sound on your casette with sfeq. try taking some of the 400 hz down 3-6 db and boosting the 2-3khz region to brighten it up. If there is tape hiss you can find the frequency that you can dip it down a little even 3db will help hope this gives some pointers email if you need more don ward -- --- don ward |
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transfering audio tape to cd using soundforge
leroy wrote:
It's just a cassette. What do you mean by tape tones and azimuth. Okay, on regular tapes, you put tones at the beginning of the tape to align the playback machine. Nobody does this with cassettes (although a lot of early Dolby B machines had all the stuff to do it with). Casettes ALWAYS have incorrect azimuth. There is no way around it, and you will always hear muffled top end response unless you adjust the azimuth for each and every tape for proper playback. Since there are no tones, you have to adjust it by ear. After you do this, you then will need to align your cassette machine back again, so you will need the alignment tape and scope. Because cassettes don't have tones, the levels on the tapes also vary a lot, and that means the levels going into the Dolby decoders are often incorrect. This is the second nightmare, and unfortunately most cassette decks have the Dolby level controls locked inside, so you have to mark the original location, adjust them until the pumping is reduced as much as possible, play back the tape, then reset them back to the original settings. I hate cassette transcription. It is a lot more work than just playing back 1/4" tapes because the alignment all has to be done by ear. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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transfering audio tape to cd using soundforge
"leroy" a écrit dans le message de news:
... I'll be using soundforge 6.0 to do the transfer and I'll be using a rca Y cable to connect the tape deck to my soundcard. Can anyone give me any tips on how to get the optimal sound transfer. (possibly any special way to record it or what to do to the audio once its recorded on the hard drive. I deffinetly want to to try to reduce the tape hiss once I get the sound recorded on my hard drive. I've used various noise reduction tools in the past but have never been satisfied with the results. Whenever I reduced the noise on any audio I always noticed a significant amount of loss in the quality of the audio. I've used dart pro and sound forge's noise reduction plugin in the past so it wasn't lack of good software that was the problem maybe I wasn't doing it right. Appreciate any tips on that as well. ======================================= Tips = http://www.a-reny.com/iexplorer/restauration.html -- Allen Reny http://www.a-reny.com |
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transfering audio tape to cd using soundforge
In rec.audio.pro leroy wrote:
: I'll be using soundforge 6.0 to do the transfer and I'll be using a : rca Y cable to connect the tape deck to my soundcard. Can anyone give : me any tips on how to get the optimal sound transfer. (possibly any : special way to record it or what to do to the audio once its recorded : on the hard drive. It depends on your soundcard. In my case (I use M-Audio), I can't decrease the recording level using software. So if the signal goes beyond 0db, I use external resistors. There have already been mentioned that you need to get the best sound from your cassette by adjusting tapedeck head with the screwdriver. Other than that, when you are done with the recording, it's a good idea to adjust volume levels for each channel individually so that they are approximately at the same level and then normalize it (bringing volume to max, but not exceeding 0db). --Leonid |
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