Looking for help...

[rookie67]

I made recordin with a Olympus VN-7200 digital voice recorder, (this model does not have usb interface ). I have recorded it into audacity using jack cord on my windows 7 computer. When I record to pc with noise canceling (off) on the Olympus I get a constant fan sound that overwhelmes vocals on finished recording... and when I record to pc with nice canceling (on) on the Olympus I get a running water sound that overwhelmes vocals on finished recording.
IS it possible to isolate the fan and/or running water sound and get rid of it completely and still retain vocals ? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. ..thanks

[kozikowski]

IS it possible to isolate the fan and/or running water sound and get rid of it completely and still retain vocals ?

I don't know of one. You may be a little too far away from a good sound pathway to make this work. I think I have a 7200 still in its box. I've never used it for anything because of poor quality sound. Every step in your production process produces more and more sound damage.

We may be able to help you rescue a recording, but we will need to go back to the beginning and fix each step as much as possible. It could take weeks. For one example, were you recording in HQ ("high quality") mode? HQ is no great shakes. It has slightly better quality than AM radio. The other two modes have the quality of a cellphone. So even if we succeed, that's all you're going to get.

Most laptops won't transfer sound the way you're trying to do it. And on...

Koz

[Trebor]

I made recordin with a Olympus VN-7200 digital voice recorder, (this model does not have usb interface ). I have recorded it into audacity using jack cord on my windows 7 computer. When I record to pc with noise canceling (off) on the Olympus I get a constant fan sound that overwhelmes vocals on finished recording... and when I record to pc with nice canceling (on) on the Olympus I get a running water sound that overwhelmes vocals on finished recording ...

If you're trying to make a copy of the recording stored on the Olympus device, on the computer, via a cable, but get overwhelming fan-noise on the Audacity copy, then you need to disable the computer's internal microphone when making the copy, so you just record the signal from the Olympus device ("line in" ?), not the computer's internal microphone which is recording the loud fan noise. You can disable the computer's internal microphone in "windows recording devices".

[Gale Andrews]

Here is our own help link for Windows Sound: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... es#vistacp.

Gale