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Shock and awe :D Good one! Gotta keep it clean around here. :D Seems like it's easy to forget the simple things when we get caught up in all the minutia of what's in front of us. I was just thinking about how many times I have slammed those headphones on during a critical recording and zappo...

........and so it was just the other day I walked into my recording studio and grabbed my cup of coffee, hit the record button and then put my headphones on to monitor the progress. Lo and behold what did I see but a big fat sound wave right in the middle of the track display which occured just...

I am considering buying a Sony TC-366 or 377 which plays at 1 7/8, 3.75 and 7.5 ips. Does anyone have any experience with these decks? Thanks for the tip on halving the speed in software. I will give it a try. :) Right now I am thinking that I will use the Akai for 3.75 and 7.5 ips transfers...

Yes the tapes have two sides and my Akai GX-4000 is a 4 track which can play them just fine. I use Audacity for sound editing so I will try to adjust the speed down to the slower rate and see if the playback sounds right. I also have access to an old Roberts tape deck which may play the slower...

1 7/8 ips Sounds good. I will check into getting the capstan collar for the 7.5 ips. Some of my reels are marked that they were recorded at 1 7/8 ips. I know that this is the standard speed for 'cassette' recordings. How would I go about playing a 1/4" reel at this speed? Would I need to get an...

I have open reel tapes recorded at 1 7/8 ips, 3 3/4 ips, 7 1/2 ips and 15 ips. When I play them some of the tapes sound fast and some sound slow when I play them on my Akai GX-4000 D ( I like my Akai! ). The tapes recorded at 3 3/4 ips sound just fine. Some of the others play too fast. Does...

I am recording one voice and the person is close mic-ed in a medium-sized room. If this was being recorded in a professional recording studio and the final target was Audio CDs would it be recorded in 'mono' first and then processed to 'stereo'? What are the advantages of recording in 'mono'?

Is this a silly question to be asking? Should I be using 'mono' or 'stereo' for voice recordings and why?

I agree with Chris. I replaced my SB soundcard with an M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 soundcard with great results. Make sure that you run your mic into a good preamp and then into the "line-in" on your soundcard.

I am just thankful for everyone's help on this website or I would still be fiddling around with my SB soundcard and Radio Shack mic wondering why in the heck I wasn't getting quality recordings :p

I had the same problem so I went out and bought a M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 soundcard, a good preamp and made sure to use the "line-in" into my computor from the preamp. Problem solved.

Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 10 Hey everyone! Check this out. I just downloaded a free demo of MAGIX AUDIO CLEANING LAB 10 and wowwwww this is really great software. It allows you to clean and master a track while listening to the audio in your headphones! This is a comprehensive package with...

Om "The sound that is not made by two things striking together" or the "unstruck sound". Have any of you heard this? Joseph Campbell describes it as the unheard hummings of atoms and molecules. Maybe there is sound in space afterall.

eq and filters Dani, First I select a short piece of the offending tape noise signal without any of the recording on it, then I select "noise removal" from the effects menu, then I select "get noise profile", then I select "remove noise". I have also tried sliding the levels bar more to the...

My favorites are A Love Supreme and The Ultimate Blue Train. Hey I was wondering about that picture so thanks for shedding some light on the subject. I tried again to use the noise reduction in Audacity tonight with absolutely no results. I tried everything I could think of to make it work...

That would be an especially "deep" restoration circumstance. I'll check my collection.

Re: tape restoration Glen, How much would you charge to do all that? :) I have several hundred tapes to restore in my spare time. Hey nobody said it would be easy right? That was a fantastic thread and very informative thank you. Looks like I will be spending alot of time on this one. You ARE...

What is the most effective way to reduce tape noise on a wav file with a voice recording without distorting the audio sound? I am trying to make professional sounding cds from reel-to-reel and cassette tape recordings. I am using Audacity for sound editing and I have been trying to use the...

I am making basic audio recordings thru a Audiophile 24/96 soundcard which I will be editing and adding music clips at the beginning and end of the recording. What is the difference between Ableton Live Lite 4.0 vs Audacity for audio editing and recording. Pros and cons? Thanks!