what exactly should do with Audacity???

[mikesalvo]

hey yall,

yet anither newb. question from myself. I use Audacity to track the recordings off my JB3. Typically I import, normalize, then amplify. Am I doing all the right things???

[Brian Skalinder]

yet anither newb. question from myself. I use Audacity to track the recordings off my JB3. Typically I import, normalize, then amplify. Am I doing all the right things???

Audacity's Normalize function only normalizes to -3 dBFS for some reason.  So to get to 0 dBFS when normalizing, one also needs to use the Amplify function.  No point in doing both - skip Normalize and use only Amplify to boost your levels accordingly.

As for "all the right things", it depends on what you're trying to accomplish, the recording bit-depth and sample rate and final bit-depth and sample rate, etc.

[tapeworm48]

can you track in Audacity without introducing mini-gaps or SBEs?  can you create a cue sheet?

[Brian Skalinder]

can you track in Audacity without introducing mini-gaps or SBEs?  can you create a cue sheet?

Yes and sorta/not really.

Track w/o SBEs:

• Set View | Selection Format to cdda min:sec:frames 75fps, then select File | Export Multiple
  
• Set Edit | Snap-To | Snap On
  
  

Audacity provides the option to export (File | Export Labels) and import (Project | Import Labels) labels, including names and the time markers.  But it doesn't appear to be a generic cue sheet format, e.g. the exported text file won't load into CD-Wave.

[tapeworm48]

Good to know.  Thanks Brian.