Audacity Forum

xfades are great, and i'd do that if the project allowed it. but the goal here is to make a CD that allows navigation by cut, and so it will need to be in pieces. if i can find a clean place to cut in at the beginning, i'd prefer that to fading in for the most part, though a little bit of fade will ...

it's my intention to do close to a comparison between 96/24 and straight 44.1/16 by using one on one night and the other on the other night -- it's a two show weekend. it won't be exactly a:b because the rooms will be different. the whole thing arises from a studio album just done, which i think sou...

thanks very much, everybody. here's what i intend to do: pretty much what i thought i'd do: first show at 16/44.1, bring it into audacity at that rate and depth, just for cutting and fading in and out and will then burn the result to a red book CD. the second show i'll record at greater depth, bring...

thing is, my goal is to do the absolute minimum post-production possible, with the result being a burn to red book audio CD. i really need in post only to cut it into tracks (and i could do this in the recorder, even after the fact, but i'd just as soon not) and to fade in and out so the cuts won't ...

the pre-emphasis may not be necessary in a digital age, but no matter: it's what broadcasters already have. it is the same as fm pre-emph causing music to get compressed to a farethewell and now becoming the standard. the gov't might require all teevee broadcasters to go digital, but those broadcast...

the -20 is, i think, pre-emphasis and came to us by law in connection with fm stations. it's a real pain, too, because it truly screws up s/n. which is why we got compressors, the goal being to make the quiet parts as loud as possible. which then became the standard for how most music sounds (produc...

best stuff i ever got of a group -- chamber orchestra in this case -- was done through the sennheiser binaural mic (on that silly plastic head with the good ears) into a half-track ampex. would be amusing to consider the s/n of those days, even at high tape speed, vs. even really cheapo gear now. th...

ah. many thanks.

funny -- i used to do a lot of this kind of thing, but it was when sound editing involved a splice block and a razorblade! indeed, people could have made money by not investing in the things i mastered -- darkroom work, tape editing.

i'll certainly let you know how it works out.

that's precisely the issue in the room: never been there and won't be there until sound check. do not want to take a feed off the board, and yes, i'm thinking the performer's mic stand -- the mic isn't worked closely and will be on a boom, so i have about a meter distance, unless i do something free...

Hi folks. i have a bunch of questions. the goal is to record a live concert -- solo singer-acoustic guitarist, live audience, medium-sized room i won't get to scope out much ahead of time -- using a sony pcm d50 stereo recorder, then take it to CD with as little processing as possible. to make it ev...