copying my stuff

[Redbeard]

Hello - am West Coast Celtic performer/songwriter in BC Canada - have master of latest disc recorded and happening - wish to copy some tracks and edit @ home - particularly at this time for a songwriters contest am entering - have my master, have sound card, have mp3site just plain lost as to download certain tracks, then edit, then mail to friend with burner to make sampler for submission - am 'putor neophyte - any help greatly appreciated - always love to chat with other muzzos of the world!

Ciao for now - Redbeard

[SPINSTERWUN]

What exactly are you asking?

[Redbeard]

thank you for your reply - hope i can clarify - i have in hand a studio master of our stuff - i'd like, hopefully at home, to "pull off" certain tracks, do a little straight editing for duration adjustments, then make a file (or whatever!) of those specific tracks ready to burn a demo cd to send off to this contest - tell me this can be done at home - will i be translating material to mp3 then pulling down from mp3 file to burn? ARGH! wish i knew what the heck i was doin' all this tool in hand and not enough know-how to boogie withal. with thanks in advance spinsterwun...

[SPINSTERWUN]

You sure can do this at home.

You will need an EDITOR. I use Sound Forge 5.0

http://www.sonicfoundry.com

They should have a demo version if you are low on cash.

OR go to this freeeware/shareware site.

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm

Question for you...

You have the master. Correct?

Is it on CD?

Is it a WAV. file or an MP3?

Let us know what format it is.

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All you have to do is transfer it to your EDITING program.

Make your adjustments.

Save it as a WAVE file.

Open your CD burning program.

ADD the WAVE you made.

BURN the CD.

Post us back with some more info.



peace...

spin

[SPINSTERWUN]

Here is a glossary of terms.

http://www.audioed.com.au/glossary_free1.html

spin

[Redbeard]

thank you for your generous assistance...indeed I have the master and it is on CD...whether or not it is wave or mp3 I do not know though I can find out this week...I suspect it is wave if these are the only two choices...I do have audio catalyst in my desktop...is this of any use? I will pursue the editing suggestions you have made...thanks again I think this sharing of info. is very cool...where are you? what sort of music do you make? Ciao for now...REDBEARD.

[Gidge]

Goldwave
www.goldwave.com

Very easy, pretty much free, will do everything you want.......

[Redbeard]

Blessing GIDGE and spinsterwun...goldwave looks like the ticket...must go day job now will review in the deep of night...blessings all ciao for now thanking you all

[drewvta]

If it plays in your cd player it is wav file, if you have to play it on your computer it is mp3 files. If it is wav you might have a little harder time with the editing...

-Drew

[Redbeard]

thankyou drew for the valuable clarification - you folks are fine folks what can I do for you? Think I'll keep this site around so that I can help one day cheers everybody I'll let y'all know how it goes for us. See you on MP3 sometime soon - do you folks have music out there that we can check out? All the best...

[Redbeard]

Hello all my helpful and generous-hearted virtual colleagues! It would appear that, using Audio Catalyst, I have copied the audio master CD track by track into an MP3 format - at least when I seek files under the general heading MP3 I see my tracks listed there. How I access them without searching for them I as yet do not understand. Geez this machine can make one feel daft! Anyhoo, I then downloaded a shareware option of the GOLDWAVE program reccomended by GIDGE in this forum. This again appeared to succeed, creating itself as an icon, shortcut etc. Being as bull in a china shop sort of fellow, I opted not to sit and wade through the entire contents and help files, but asked the program immediately to open a file and to look for it where the address of those "MP3" listed tracks said they were - no joy at all...long wait resulting in diddly-squat as we say. Good Lord, where do I go from here? My immediate needs (and there is a January deadline) are simply to chop 57 seconds of one track, then send it and two other tracks to a virtual friend for the burning of the demo. I hope I'm not just being lazy or blind. My urgent needs of course do not help my levels of concentration or comprehension. Enough already...can anyone help any more? Thank you everyone.

Redbeard

[Mark H.]

I'm just an editor, so my advice is only about how to organize your question -- unfortunately, I know NOTHING about your topic! I hope that disclaimer protects me from flamers... :-)

For these guys to help you, you need to back up a bit:

1.) What physical format does the organization receiving the samples REQUIRE? (e.g., "red book" (commerical-style) compact disc, cassette tape, "master" tape or disc at higher-than-red-book quality, Minidisc, etc.)

2.) Do they REQUIRE electronic submission (hence MP3)? (i.e., do they say, "we accept submissions only by email in the mp3 format"?)

3.) If they want red book CDs (CDs that play in a normal CD player), why not just find someone in Vancouver or your home town to selectively copy tracks from your master to a fresh CDR? Almost anybody can do that for you for next to nothing.

4.) If your samples have to be on CD and have to be a certain number of seconds in length, then have someone make an analog copy to CDR for you. In other words, they play it back as analog information (the music that comes out of your speakers), record the output digitally (meaning their A/D converters put it back into digital format), then copy the resultant file to CD for you. Again, almost anyone already set up could do this for you very easily. Keep things as simple as you can -- use existing resources.

5.) If your samples don't HAVE to be in MP3 format, then don't go there. MP3 is a huge step DOWN from copying your tracks from your master CD to casette tape, for instance. Transfering a master CD-quality file to mp3, emailing to a friend, and having him remaster it to CD is a huge waste of time, money and sound quality.

Get the tracks you needed copied locally in whatever format is required for submission, then FedEx the submission directly. It will be MUCH cheaper and faster.

There may be other factors of which I am totally unaware, and if any of this seems presumptuous or condescending, it's sure not meant that way. You say you're under a deadline, so I'm intentionally pushing you to clarify what you need, so that the guys on this forum who actually UNDERSTAND this stuff can get back to helping you. My tone reflects your urgency, not my lack of patience. :-) OK?

I sincerely hope some of this helps! I'd love to hear your work some day.

Best wishes,

Mark H.

[cjmusicman]

Just a suggestion: If a "finished" CD is OK for submission, find someone with a stand-alone CD burner (I'm sure millions of us have them). Hook a separate CD player up. CD player out to the in of the burner. When you have approx. 60 seconds left on the song you're recording, start fading out (gradually turning down the volume on the "from player") until you meet the time requirement, and bingo you've got it.

PS: Practice that fading out a couple of times first and you'll get the hang of it.

PSS: IF THERE IS ANYTHING OF "VALUE" OR THAT YOU WANT TO KEEP IN THE LAST 60 SECONDS OF THE SONG, DISREGARD EVERYTHING I JUST SAID.

Good Luck\

cj

[Redbeard]

hi cj and mark h thank you appreciate intentions and all help with cmas coming will not pursue fora couple of days really thankyou and all the best of the season will post here when all successful am optimistic am also run awayat the mouth sort of chap! merry hohohannukah and all else for mid-winter in the northern world

[SPINSTERWUN]

Sorry... Red. I made the assumption that you had a CD burner on your computer.


spin

[Redbeard]

no sweat happy holidays

redbeard