Re[2]: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Patrick Perdue
Hello Bruce, On Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 7:02:48 PM, you bellowed the following: > I personally feel Noise Gate is evil and should be banned from polite > society, but that's just me. Noise gates, when used properly, are really quite nice to have around, actually. However, putting them on to

Re: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Curtis Delzer
I initially forgot a couple steps, very important. After you've recorded your "stereo" file with each track/side in the left and right channels, you need to select the entire file and copy it to the clip board and paste it into another window, one which is mono so the sound will be in the cente

RE: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Curtis Delzer
No, in that case you don't have the NR plug-in, unfortunately, and it is expensive, again unfortunately, doesn't come with version 8. I, honestly don't know what that audio restoration does in SF, haven't used it at all. I got spoiled by that NR plug-in. Curtis Delzer At 05:43 PM 1/4/2006, y

Re: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Curtis Delzer
Well, you can hear it working, because below a certain point, everything just goes away, and if something happens which is suppose to be just audibile enough to hear it, the noise "gate" might clip it off, and the more you hear it working, the more you wonder what you might be missing. Early st

Re: a question

2006-01-05 Thread Brian Olesen
Hi, Well it's mostly some dvd recoding stuff and this premium is as far as I know really a full blown media center, where as the ultra concentrates on the actual burning. :-) Best regards Brian - Original Message - From: "Sun Sparkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EM

converting text files to Audio

2006-01-05 Thread Peter Scanlon
Open Book will convert files to MP3 but does it produce files in Daisy audio format? What other options are there for converting text files to audio? Peter S. At 11:53 PM 5/01/2006, you wrote: >Hi, >Well it's mostly some dvd recoding stuff and this premium is as far as I >know really

Re: accessible mp3 tag program

2006-01-05 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html Kevin Doucet said the following on Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:25:11PM -0600: > Hi, > > Can any one recommend a program which works well with speech to automate > creating mp3 tags? > > Thanks. - -- Put your trust

Re: another premier cd observation

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Grady
Were you able to copy a cd or did you write tracks to cd by choosing files? At 12:53 AM 1/5/2006, you wrote: >When I turned off test writing the audio CD was written. It was my >first. Kurt > >___ >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >h

Re: another premier cd observation

2006-01-05 Thread ALGAYZAG
As a result of reading some of the posts on this list, I downloaded and installed the trial version of this program and began working with it to see, first, how it would handle identifying and saving discs. On the first two I tried, the database totally misidentified the disks with the wrong n

RE: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Judy W
I am using version 6. You have to buy the noise reduction plug in. It's worth the money if you are doing very precise work. It used to cost $249. Judy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nolan Crabb Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:43 PM To:

Sound Cards

2006-01-05 Thread Morey Worthington
Hello all, I am using a "Sound blaster-Live"card with Jaws 7.0. The sound card works well for my purposes. But now the question. When I attempt to go into the properties of the card, such as speakers, settings, etc, Jaws does not read the menus good at all. Probably alot of graphics. Is the

Re: accessible mp3 tag program

2006-01-05 Thread Curtis Delzer
You can make mp3 tags in Windows xp, highlight all files and go into properties with context, go to advanced, and there it is. You can do them all at once by changing the fields and saving. Now, how about one for *.ogg files? I don't know how to do those. Curtis Delzer At 05:42 AM 1/5/2006, y

Re: another premier cd observation

2006-01-05 Thread Don
Stayed tuned for more of the same. Don - Original Message - From: "ALGAYZAG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:19 AM Subject: Re: another premier cd observation > As a result of reading some of the posts on this list, I downloaded a

making CDs

2006-01-05 Thread blsmass
you asked "Were you able to copy a cd or did you write tracks to cd by choosing files?" I made the CD from files. As far as I know you can't copy a CD and you can't even run the disk check and I am not sure about the writing the image part to the hard drive. Also, when you try to save an image i

creating a dvd

2006-01-05 Thread Joy Tilton
Is there a way, either through Nero or other software, to create a dvd similar to a comercial dvd with a .avi movie? Does one need to convert the .avi file to another format in order for it to be recorded on a dvd which can be played by a stand alone dvd player? file___

Skype version 2.0.0.69 is Now Available

2006-01-05 Thread Steve Pattison
Skype version 2.0.0.69 is now available from www.skype.com. Here are the changes in this version: feature: Skype video (webcam) feature: contact grouping feature: quickfilter in contact list and history (enable from Options->Advanced) feature: new language - Portuguese (Portugal) feature: new s

Re: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Bruce Toews
Or you can get Gold Wave for considerably less, and you would be very surprised, I think, at what a long way their sound processing has come. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on

any shortcuts for power dvd?

2006-01-05 Thread randy Tijerina
hello gang. I am using windows xp home edition media center and jfw 7.0. i want to ask what are the shortcuts for using power dvd? and how do i make windows media player play dvd's? Randy ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://ww

RE: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Nolan Crabb
No, I'm doing many of the same things you mentioned already. I'm getting rid of beginnings and endings of all sides, blowing off all references to cassettes in general. When I'm done, I have a single MP3, 24 KBPS, that works nicely in the Book Port. I dug out the deck, and the crosstalk is no mo

Skype Accessibility Report

2006-01-05 Thread Bruce Toews
Below are my findings. I can only speak for my experiences. I just downloaded the latest release of Skype. This is not a beta, but a full release. The contact list works very impressively with JAWS. When you launch the program, you are immediately placed into the contact window. Hitting the tab

RE: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Curtis Delzer
What are you writing at first 22,050hz at 16Bit or smaller? in stereo, you could only go about 6 hours and 40 minutes at that rate before you'd fill a fat 32 disk with 2 gigabytes. 24K mp3s don't really sound that good, the smallest I do is 32K or 32K at the lowest vbr rating of the encoder en

Re: accessible mp3 tag program

2006-01-05 Thread Kevin Doucet
Hi, Thanks for this. What I am wanting is a program to fill in the mp3 tags from the file names. Do you know How I can do that? Thanks. At 11:02 AM 1/5/2006 -0800, you wrote: >You can make mp3 tags in Windows xp, highlight all files and go into >properties with context, go to advanced, and t

Re: User friendly DVD payer

2006-01-05 Thread chris ramsay
i just bought a portable one at radio shack f for around 200 dollars which seems to work well. it has a button for next track you press it twice and it will skip to the next offering on the dvd. Chris Ramsay - Original Message - From: "joanne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC

Re: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Tyler Wood
Yes, but for $40 canadian, I can get gold wave. Why is it that sound forge is so much money? Does it have some huge feature that gold wave doesn't? Actually, gold wave does exactly what I want in the demmo, so I'm going to buy it sooner or later. Tyler PS: Jerry, I've never really gave that si

Re: User friendly DVD payer

2006-01-05 Thread Tyler Wood
I have a curtis portable dvd player. Its a nice player, I got it for christmas. Its good for what I want, although it fails in the accessibility department when I press a button called virtual remote. Unless your very good like me (have a good memory), you won't remember where things are. For e

RE: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Bruce Toews
I believe in Gold Wave. It's gotten a lot of knocking over the years from people who sincerely believe that anything other than Sound Forge is a hopeless program to use. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries)

Re: creating a dvd

2006-01-05 Thread G. McFarlane
Hi Avi movies need converting to mpg files to make them like a proper DVD. They must then be burned in a particular way to DVD to make them DVD player compatible. Nero will combine both processes or do them separately if you have the right components. There are many other programs on the market,

Re: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Tyler Wood
That is, after you spend the $200 for soundforge, and why I am stil wondering why does sound forge cost so much compaired to gold wave, unless it has 200 features that gold wave doesn't, I'm not spending that much. Not after I spend $50, at the most, for gold wave, and why I'm buying gold wave.

Re: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions

2006-01-05 Thread Bruce Toews
A few years ago, Gold Wave was very much a toy as far as sound editors went. That has changed as new versions have come out. The price has not changed. One thing is that Gold Wave is pretty much a one-man operation, where as Sound forge is brought to you by teh same people who mass-marketed bla