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Baz
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About 2 years ago I was in a band and we recorded our original songs on a Yamaha MT50 4 track and some others in a Digital studio onto DAT tape. I recently got a computer w/ Sound Forge XP, Cakewalk Gold Express, and a CD burner, amongst other things and I want to take those songs and put them on a CD. I thought this would be an easy task, but I am having some problems.
First, I am dumping each individual track of the four track tapes onto seperate wav files. I thought this would be good because I could manipulate each track seperately. However, the problem is I can't get the tracks to synch up after I turn them into wav files. I can get them started at the same place, but during playback the further along into the song I get, the timing amongst the tracks falls more and more off. Could this be a problem with the four track not playing back at exactly the same speed each time I dump a new track? Also, should I just mix the four tracks down to one wav file to remedy this or try to get four different wav files?
Secondly, I don't have a DAT machine, just a DAT tape w/ about 30 minutes worth of songs on it. I've called a few places in town and the lowest price I found for someone to put the songs on CD so I can convert them to wav files is $40. It seems like a fairly easy thing to do and being a college student, I don't want to spend any unnecessary cash because I have so little of it after all, beer is getting expensive these days. I was thinking $40 is pretty steep, but maybe not. Can anyone think of any alternatives to paying the $40 or do you think this is a fair price for this service? Thanks for the help.
First, I am dumping each individual track of the four track tapes onto seperate wav files. I thought this would be good because I could manipulate each track seperately. However, the problem is I can't get the tracks to synch up after I turn them into wav files. I can get them started at the same place, but during playback the further along into the song I get, the timing amongst the tracks falls more and more off. Could this be a problem with the four track not playing back at exactly the same speed each time I dump a new track? Also, should I just mix the four tracks down to one wav file to remedy this or try to get four different wav files?
Secondly, I don't have a DAT machine, just a DAT tape w/ about 30 minutes worth of songs on it. I've called a few places in town and the lowest price I found for someone to put the songs on CD so I can convert them to wav files is $40. It seems like a fairly easy thing to do and being a college student, I don't want to spend any unnecessary cash because I have so little of it after all, beer is getting expensive these days. I was thinking $40 is pretty steep, but maybe not. Can anyone think of any alternatives to paying the $40 or do you think this is a fair price for this service? Thanks for the help.