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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: ozarkbilly on March 24, 2008, 12:20:36 AM
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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?
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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
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Awesome! big +T for the quick help ;D
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track it, flac it, sell it to the butcher in the store.
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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?
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not sure about the different converters. it is just habit for me to use tlh :-\
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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!
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I save FLACs out of CDWave at Level 8 with no problems.