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kp_centi:
Hello,
Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules. I've been skimming around this website, and I was fascinated with it.
I went to a concert recently, and they didn't really allow audio recorders, so I just brought my second smart phone and used a audio recorder to record the whole thing. What do I do next, I was thinking doing some audio tweaking and cutting it, but I'm a little lost and over whelmed what to do next?
If you guys could lead me to some threads or pages I can be more familiar, I would appreciate it.
Where do should I post the audio also? I haven't seen much audio recordings of kpop shows.
EDIT: I somehow missed the Matrix Guide and Gear FAQs. I'm reading it now!
rocksuitcase:
--- Quote from: kp_centi on July 24, 2022, 08:47:49 PM ---Hello,
Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules. I've been skimming around this website, and I was fascinated with it.
I went to a concert recently, and they didn't really allow audio recorders, so I just brought my second smart phone and used a audio recorder to record the whole thing. What do I do next, I was thinking doing some audio tweaking and cutting it, but I'm a little lost and over whelmed what to do next?
If you guys could lead me to some threads or pages I can be more familiar, I would appreciate it.
Where do should I post the audio also? I haven't seen much audio recordings of kpop shows.
EDIT: I somehow missed the Matrix Guide and Gear FAQs. I'm reading it now!
--- End quote ---
Welcome to the board. What app are you using for the phone recording?
transfer the raw files to a computer. The free software for PC (mac also i think) is Audacity. There are others which cost money such as Wavelab, Adobe Audition, Izotope etc.
Then to track out use cdwav editor (free/shareware)
I like Traders Little helper for file conversion and creating checksum files. Also free/shareware
Good luck. I would guess there are not too many kpop recordists. keep reading here for brand names and such.
Are you located in Asia or the states?
morst:
--- Quote from: rocksuitcase on July 25, 2022, 11:37:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: kp_centi on July 24, 2022, 08:47:49 PM ---Hello,
Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules. I've been skimming around this website, and I was fascinated with it.
I went to a concert recently, and they didn't really allow audio recorders, so I just brought my second smart phone and used a audio recorder to record the whole thing. What do I do next, I was thinking doing some audio tweaking and cutting it, but I'm a little lost and over whelmed what to do next?
If you guys could lead me to some threads or pages I can be more familiar, I would appreciate it.
Where do should I post the audio also? I haven't seen much audio recordings of kpop shows.
EDIT: I somehow missed the Matrix Guide and Gear FAQs. I'm reading it now!
--- End quote ---
Welcome to the board. What app are you using for the phone recording?
transfer the raw files to a computer. The free software for PC (mac also i think) is Audacity. There are others which cost money such as Wavelab, Adobe Audition, Izotope etc.
Then to track out use cdwav editor (free/shareware)
I like Traders Little helper for file conversion and creating checksum files. Also free/shareware
Good luck. I would guess there are not too many kpop recordists. keep reading here for brand names and such.
Are you located in Asia or the states?
--- End quote ---
The free Audacity editor software runs on PC, Mac, and even Linux.
Note that the most recent versions of Audacity software (versions numbered 3 or greater) "phone home" and do some user tracking, so there are many of us who simply use older versions.
Download link for v2.4.2 for Mac/Win:
https://archive.org/details/audacity-2.4.2
Audacity software will also allow you to "track out" your uninterrupted recording as well.
Labels are added to the track start points using control-b (command-b on mac) and then the operator can "Export Multiple" according to the labels.
Trader's Little Helper is PC only. On the mac, I use Scott Brown's xACT for most everything. Scott is active on this message board as user "scb"
He posted an updated version today which works on Apple Silicon or Intel CPUs:
--- Quote from: scb on July 25, 2022, 12:09:20 PM ---https://www.dropbox.com/s/v7lkfp44y3grbvd/xACTTest.zip?dl=0 fixed issue where verifying an ffp file could crash if the file was corrupt or incomplete
--- End quote ---
Some folks use youtube or Soundcloud. I think Soundcloud at least keeps the quality you upload. Youtube turns everything into MP3, basically.
You could probably post the results on the internet archive under Community Audio.
The Live Music Archive section there is only for bands and musical artists who have chosen to "opt-in" to allow their works to be hosted.
If you can convince the band to give permission to allow fan recordings to be posted, then the LMA is a perfect option.
Here is a list of trade-friendly bands on the LMA
https://archive.org/audio/etree-band-showall.php
PS CONGRATULATIONS and WELCOME!
kp_centi:
--- Quote from: rocksuitcase on July 25, 2022, 11:37:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: kp_centi on July 24, 2022, 08:47:49 PM ---Hello,
Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules. I've been skimming around this website, and I was fascinated with it.
I went to a concert recently, and they didn't really allow audio recorders, so I just brought my second smart phone and used a audio recorder to record the whole thing. What do I do next, I was thinking doing some audio tweaking and cutting it, but I'm a little lost and over whelmed what to do next?
If you guys could lead me to some threads or pages I can be more familiar, I would appreciate it.
Where do should I post the audio also? I haven't seen much audio recordings of kpop shows.
EDIT: I somehow missed the Matrix Guide and Gear FAQs. I'm reading it now!
--- End quote ---
Welcome to the board. What app are you using for the phone recording?
transfer the raw files to a computer. The free software for PC (mac also i think) is Audacity. There are others which cost money such as Wavelab, Adobe Audition, Izotope etc.
Then to track out use cdwav editor (free/shareware)
I like Traders Little helper for file conversion and creating checksum files. Also free/shareware
Good luck. I would guess there are not too many kpop recordists. keep reading here for brand names and such.
Are you located in Asia or the states?
--- End quote ---
I'm using this app https://gitlab.com/axet/android-audio-recorder. It's really good, it lets you do 24bit, 192kHz, Stereo, and you can record in a bunch of formats like FLAC.
I have Audacity and I also own FL Studio, I just never had much experience with this kind of audio before. I wasn't sure what kind of tweaking I should do, other than levels and EQ. I still to have this weird clicking / clipping bits that happen randomly for a second.
I am located in the USA.
kp_centi:
--- Quote from: morst on July 25, 2022, 02:15:00 PM ---
--- Quote from: rocksuitcase on July 25, 2022, 11:37:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: kp_centi on July 24, 2022, 08:47:49 PM ---Hello,
Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules. I've been skimming around this website, and I was fascinated with it.
I went to a concert recently, and they didn't really allow audio recorders, so I just brought my second smart phone and used a audio recorder to record the whole thing. What do I do next, I was thinking doing some audio tweaking and cutting it, but I'm a little lost and over whelmed what to do next?
If you guys could lead me to some threads or pages I can be more familiar, I would appreciate it.
Where do should I post the audio also? I haven't seen much audio recordings of kpop shows.
EDIT: I somehow missed the Matrix Guide and Gear FAQs. I'm reading it now!
--- End quote ---
Welcome to the board. What app are you using for the phone recording?
transfer the raw files to a computer. The free software for PC (mac also i think) is Audacity. There are others which cost money such as Wavelab, Adobe Audition, Izotope etc.
Then to track out use cdwav editor (free/shareware)
I like Traders Little helper for file conversion and creating checksum files. Also free/shareware
Good luck. I would guess there are not too many kpop recordists. keep reading here for brand names and such.
Are you located in Asia or the states?
--- End quote ---
The free Audacity editor software runs on PC, Mac, and even Linux.
Note that the most recent versions of Audacity software (versions numbered 3 or greater) "phone home" and do some user tracking, so there are many of us who simply use older versions.
Download link for v2.4.2 for Mac/Win:
https://archive.org/details/audacity-2.4.2
Audacity software will also allow you to "track out" your uninterrupted recording as well.
Labels are added to the track start points using control-b (command-b on mac) and then the operator can "Export Multiple" according to the labels.
Trader's Little Helper is PC only. On the mac, I use Scott Brown's xACT for most everything. Scott is active on this message board as user "scb"
He posted an updated version today which works on Apple Silicon or Intel CPUs:
--- Quote from: scb on July 25, 2022, 12:09:20 PM ---https://www.dropbox.com/s/v7lkfp44y3grbvd/xACTTest.zip?dl=0 fixed issue where verifying an ffp file could crash if the file was corrupt or incomplete
--- End quote ---
Some folks use youtube or Soundcloud. I think Soundcloud at least keeps the quality you upload. Youtube turns everything into MP3, basically.
You could probably post the results on the internet archive under Community Audio.
The Live Music Archive section there is only for bands and musical artists who have chosen to "opt-in" to allow their works to be hosted.
If you can convince the band to give permission to allow fan recordings to be posted, then the LMA is a perfect option.
Here is a list of trade-friendly bands on the LMA
https://archive.org/audio/etree-band-showall.php
PS CONGRATULATIONS and WELCOME!
--- End quote ---
Whoa I never knew about the Labels system in Audacity. I'll check out Trader's Little Helper or xACT. I'm on both platforms anyways.
Soundcloud actually transcode their audio to 128kbps or 256kbps (If you have SoundCloud Premium)
Good to know about the Live Section on Archive.org I wouldn't have wanted to mistakenly post on there
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