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It's worth checking to see if the buzzing is in both channels, If it's only in one (left or tight) then you can discard the buzzy one as you 78 I fairly likely to be a mono. recording. You can use Split stereo to mono to from the Track Control Panel: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audio_track_...

Sennheiser also have a good reputation - BBC folk can frequently be seen wearing them for outside broadcasts.

I have a pair of "studio" Sennheisers HD-25-1 - I love 'em, very detailed, but like Koz I don't want to wear them for hours on end ...

WC

What I would do is to Zoom the project so that the entire hour fits in the screen window - use the zoom-to-fit tool in the Edit Toolbar: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/edit_toolbar.html#zoomfit or use the command: View>Fit in Window (or its shortcut Ctrl+F ) Then clicking at various places in ...

waxcylinder wrote:If I get time I may consider writing up a similar workflow tutorial targeted at tape transfer...

Done - please see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Samp ... gitization

WC

There is a draft proposal on labelling improvement in the Audacity Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Proposal_Label_Enhancements Collapse region label to a point label It contains as part of it: Steve 19Apr13 from a forum thread:perhaps there could be a right-click option (when right-clicking ...

Look forward to hearing from you if you have any bright ideas. Sometimes this can happen if you move or nudge a point label accidentally creating a small range label. Look carefully at the label icon, it has three components each of which will independently light up white when you g=hover over them...

Yes, doncha hate spell-checkers and auto-correct sometimes

Fixed the original post

Thanks,

Peter

Another good tip is to rewind the tape all the way to the end and then back again before making the playback for recording as this re-tensions the tape.

I think I'll add that to the Wiki article I pointed you at.

WC

eager to learn wrote:I have an old cassette deck sitting on a table (they're difficult to find now) and I'm not sure what grade of audio it turns out ...

This page from the Audacity Wiki may be of use to you: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... m_Cassette

WC

how about: http://www.amazon.com/Voyetra-2026286-M ... B00002EIWR

Looks like you need to find an old PC with an old version of Windows.

WC