Hi Terri. Well, is your recorder plugged in to line
in? If so, can you hear the audio through your
speakers? You know, it may be you're recording at
different volumes at different times, or does the
volume control on the tape player never get touched?
If volumes are too high, you'll distort because your
sounds are peaking too high and the wave form is
flattening out there where it's trying to go too high,
that's called flat topping, and it sounds all
scratchy. You want your record volume both on PC side
and recorder side just low enough that the loudest
parts of the sound won't do that. The noise reduction
feature is quite easy. First of all, the reduction
envelope. What you want to do before you start noise
reduction, is take part of the sound that is totally
quiet. If there's some dead air between songs or just
before the show, select that with your left and right
brackets. Copy it to your clipboard, then control+a to
select the whole sound again, then go in to the noise
reduction dialogue. Check the reduction envelope radio
button that says use clipboard, select it with your
arrow keys. This works great for me, it's the best
option. I live in the country, and record the birds
and cows out my window and send mp3's to friends
sometimes. There are plenty of quiet parts, and noise
reduction really takes out the hiss from my sound
card, and makes it sound like I used a professional
setup. Then there are the following controls.I
experimented, and the settings I use are fft size of
12, it takes longer but it's worth it, it'll sound
much cleaner, overlap at 95, the scale usually I set
it around 85, any higher and the quiet parts have a
digital warble mumble that doesn't sound natural. The
hiss removal preset sounds like what you want.
Sometimes I get a lot of hum, so I use reduce hum, but
if it's really bad and I feel I can do without the
base, I'll just turn down the lowest band in the
equilizer, takes that right out. I've never even
messed with the noise gate much, when I did, I didn't
really like the jerkiness of it, so I just use noise
reduction, and it works fine for me. If you don't have
a technical understanding of all of this, I can see
where the manual might confuse you, but you can always
just experiment with different combinations to see
what you like. Just make some short test files and go
crazy with them. Insert silence? Well you just pick a
length of time you want silence, and hit o.k, put a
start marker where you want the silence. If there is a
clean break between the commercial and the program,
i.e. they don't run together, then it'll work the way
you want, but if the show starts before the last notes
of the commercial are gone, you'll just have to
compromise. Personally, I'd just delete the
commercials, lol. Hope this helps.
Shawn
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--- Terri Stimmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I've got a couple of questions, and I'm hoping that
> someone can help me out.
> I'm using GoldWave version 5.
> Every week I record a radio show onto tape, and then
> I go and put it onto
> the computer. However, a lot of times the files
> come out with some sort of
> distortion. And it's not always the same thing.
> Most of them always have a
> slight background hiss, but other times the quality
> just sounds poor.
> I don't always use the same stereo, when recording
> these shows, so I'm
> thinking that might be part of the problem.
> Sometimes, I use my stereo, but
> other times I use my boombox.
> Then when I go to put the show onto the computer, I
> use a small tape player
> that's always connected to my computer.
> What I'm wanting to know, is how can I get the
> quality of these files to be
> better?
> I'm not sure if I have the sound files set up wrong
> when I go to do the
> recording, if that plays a part in it all.
> Usually, when I create a new sound I'll set it up in
> stereo, the sampling
> rate will be at 44,100, and the other sampling
> feature is set on manual.
> Are these fine where they are?
> I always save my files as mp3's, I prefer that over
> anything else. Usually
> when I save them, I save it at 128 mb. I wouldn't
> mind saving them at a
> higher bit rate, but I share these with someone
> else, so that's why I just
> save it like I do.
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or am I doing this
> just fine?
> Also, I've been trying to figure out how to use the
> noise filtering feature,
> however I'm not having much luck. I've read the
> manual, but it really was
> of no help to me.
> Whenever I try to remove the background hiss out of
> a file, it always ends
> up sounding distorted in some way. I cant figure
> out what I could be doing
> wrong. I don't understand a lot about those
> settings, and I know that's
> part of my problem.
> I've tried messing with the different settings,
> hoping that I'd figure it
> out. But I haven't.
> Can anyone give me suggestions on this as well?
> And I've got one more question.
> What exactly is the insert silence feature, and how
> does it work?
> Would I be able to use it if I were recording
> something that had
> commercials, and I wanted a bit of silence, between
> where the commercials
> had been, and the different parts of the file?
> Any help with this will be much appreciated.
> Thank you,
> Terri
>
>
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