Just taped my first show this past Tuesday. I think it turned out decent, pretty chatty in parts though. I've just got the files on my SD card in my R-09 that I ran open CA ST-11 > CA ST-9000 > R-09, and I also taped with an Iriver H120 in st***th mode just for practice (CSB w/batt box > H120). What do I use to chop them up in tracks, flac conversion, all that stuff? What are the basics if I just want to track them and upload them, without any further tinkering with them?
are they 16 bit files? if so it is easy. download cdwave
http://www.milosoftware.com/cdwave/
it is a basic tracking tool. just insert the whole file and split where desired. save as wave files.
next i use the traders little helper to encode to flac.
http://tlh.easytree.org/
with this one program, it gives you the ability to encode wav>flac and decode also. you can create checksums such as flac ffp files and md5. it has many other tunctions i don't use. this is all without doing any "post mixing" so they are just as recorded. good luck ;D
Awesome! big +T for the quick help ;D
track it, flac it, sell it to the butcher in the store.
I noticed CD Wave has an option to save as flac. Is there a reason not to do it, and save as wav and then convert to flac in TLH?
not sure about the different converters. it is just habit for me to use tlh :-\
I was in your position a couple of months ago - with the same equipment. I use the following:
Audacity (free) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
I use this to boost the levels when the tape turns out quieter than I thought it would - as they say, better to boost in post, than have a distorted tape. You can also add a fade in and fade out. This is all easily done and you export the finished wav for track splitting. I recently also used it to boost the right channel, which was at a lower level than the left - useful.
CD Wave - linked above - for track splits. I haven't tried the export as flac option - I presume it will give you the option to save as the different flac levels?
Trader's Little Helper - for converting to flac and creating checksums.
...and don't forget to keep a master copy and a working copy. Good luck!
I save FLACs out of CDWave at Level 8 with no problems.