Need Some Techie help :-)

[fugjostle]

I have a crap soundcard at the moment and I want to play a tape into the MIC input cause I have a couple of tunes I want ID'd. My question is... what program should I use to capture the input from my tape player and whats the best proggie to convert the capture to MP3?

Thanks in advance guys.

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Fug

 

[grad]

easiest and quickest, record through goldwave, save as mp3.

but you want to be going through your line in if you've got one.

 

[Mike]

Don't use the mic socket - it'll sound shite! You should have a line-in socket as well, this is the one you want to use.

I use cooledit pro to record, nice proggy and I have a little plugin that lets you load and save mp3 and produces nice sounding mp3 files. You should be able to find cooledit easily, if not let me know! Alternatively soundforge is good as well.

 

[Mike]

Woops grad we must have been typing at the same time!

 

[fugjostle]

Thanks guys, I'll try both

 

[ste huxley]

Music Match records straight to MP3 from a line in

 

[alien*8*]

have to agree Grad goldwave is the best

i use steinberg CLEAN 3.0 to get rid of noise and distortion



mark

 

[Mike]

Yeah I have to say Clean does a wicked job of getting rid of tape hiss, haven't found anything that beats it yet

 

[grad]

one important thing is to watch your levels..don't be blasting it in..if the volumes to loud it'll distort and sound awful..prob best to adjust these through your soundcard..

 

[JAZ]

I record with cooledit or wavelab, then use cool edits noise reduction to clean it up (works great if u read the instructions propelly) then I encode the mp3 with xing as its the best prog I've found for making varible bit rate files at the highest quality/lowest size.

 

[Geeky]

get clickfix plugin for cool edit, the best pop removal software i've come across. And use the crackle smoothing settings off the website to polish it off.

Steinberg Clean is good for tapes and vinyl, but can flatten the sound if your not careful.

 

[sirius]

yeah, cool edit 'is tha bomb!'. The reduce backround noise is ace...........just press record earlier than the input signal if poss, or find a bit of tape 'noise' with no music playing and record it, select it, go to 'reduce backround noise' -'get profile from selection' in the dialog box, and apply the default settings to the whole recording. This filters out almost exactly all the unwanted background/input connection noise.............

Sirius.