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by waxcylinder
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:47 am
Forum: Recording Equipment
Topic: Vinyl digitising to PC
Replies: 10
Views: 3417

Re: Vinyl digitising to PC

<<<I've been working on the same project, and I'm using a Thorens TD-160 with a Stanton 681EE cartridge through a Dynaco PAT-4 pre-amp straight into my Mac's sound input. Sounds fine to me.>>> Empire belt drive turntable, Shure SME arm (the one with the ropes), Grado Gold, Hafler DH101 into the Lin...
by waxcylinder
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:26 am
Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
Topic: Use as a WAV editor
Replies: 14
Views: 5909

Re: Use as a WAV editor

I'm in a desktop production environment and as luck has it, I am my own producer. Still benefits from good working practices like multiple copies and backups - do you really want to lose days worth of work (as many posters on this forum do). :) Or would you ever need to go back to the raw capture o...
by waxcylinder
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:22 am
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: major headache trying to get this to work
Replies: 9
Views: 2211

Re: major headache trying to get this to work

I am sure theres better formats then mp3 but the program I pesificly bought the mac and the turntable for (traktor) uses mp3 According to the Traktor website it supports all the following formats, not just MP3: MP3, WAV, AIFF, Audio-CD, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, non-DRM WMA**, AAC Size for size AAC will gi...
by waxcylinder
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:14 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: No Audio I/O tab in Preferences
Replies: 5
Views: 2774

Re: No Audio I/O tab in Preferences

In 1.3.8 it appears to be replaced by the Devices tab

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by waxcylinder
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:10 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: File Size Saving
Replies: 3
Views: 656

Re: File Size Saving

... So i went to the preferences and clicked on the tab that says 'do not copy any audio' on the 'when saving a project that depend on other audio files' which should be in the import/export or 'projects' depending on which audacity version is being used. This is a very dangerous option to select u...
by waxcylinder
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:06 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: labelling
Replies: 9
Views: 1126

Re: labelling

Roy, 1) Place a label at each track/song break - use the shortcut CTRL+B - You may find zoooming in a bit helpful here 2) type text into the label as yoy create it (I use 01 <track_name_1>, 02 <track_name_2>, etc. as this helps me get them uin the right order on the CD I make and when I import into ...
by waxcylinder
Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:09 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: labelling
Replies: 9
Views: 1126

Re: labelling

Just select the amount you want to get rid of, by clicking and dragging with your cursor and the delete it by pressing CTRL+K

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by waxcylinder
Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:22 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: labelling
Replies: 9
Views: 1126

Re: labelling

No, you want to break it up into one "track" per song - so that when you use Export Multiple you will get a set of WAVs or MP3s rathere than a single WAV/MP3 for the whole LP. See: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks and: http://wiki.audac...
by waxcylinder
Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:58 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Randomly stops recording
Replies: 13
Views: 3428

Re: Randomly stops recording

You might want to consider Nero. Do you know if Nero can be configured to capture video from one source (camera) and audio from another (sound card)? I don't know about that - I don't actually use Nero for the capture as I have no video capture card in either of my PCs (I use the standalone Pinnacl...