tape to cd

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I have a"running to cadence" tape I need to burn to cd.

My problem is: "I don't run"

My other probem is: Parts of the tape are quite a bit lower in volume than others.

Is this a job for normalizer man? Or maybe, is there a better way to even out these volumes?

Thanks

dana
 
Sonar 2.2xl
Sound Forge 6
Wavelab 3

I'm sorry I really don't know that much about this stuff to know the difference between Sonar and an editor. I have read in several posts that people send things out to, say Sound Forge to tweak something or 'nother, But I really don't know the rthym or reason. I mean, Sonar has compressors, limiters, and Sound Forge has the same. I know they are different programs but...????

dana
 
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Yeah, but Sonar support MIDI, virtual instruments, volume envelopes, and a bunch of stuff an editor doesen't have.

But I would never edit in Sonar, only record. It's just so much easier to edit in a program that's meant to do the job. Sonar is made for recording and sequensing and editors are made for... err... editing... ;)
 
Editing?

What exactly do you consider editing?

Is patching in a compressor or reverb, or eq on a track editing? Or would you call slicing and dicing editing? need more input :)

What would I need to do in SF 6 to "edit" my cadence tape to bring the lower volumes up a little.

ty
dana
 
Re: Editing?

mishappen said:
Is patching in a compressor or reverb, or eq on a track editing? Or would you call slicing and dicing editing?
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"Patching in a compressor or reverb" is known as "using an effect". "Slicing and dicing" is known as "editing"... ;)

And SF 6 you go Edit -> Volume. Or you can use the WaveHammer.... this is all well explained in the manual. :)
 
Ok i understand (i think) :(

So in SF6 should I normalize or use a different process to even out the volumes. It seems I was reading in another thread where people were discussing normalizing. Some said it was usless and some said it was the way to go. So what are my other options other than normalizing. Compressor? Limiter? both?

plz

dana
 
I'll put my2 cents in to this thread...

If you record the whole tape to the computer in one file, if you normalise it, it will raise the level of the whole file, not just the quite bits, unless you just select the quite areas and normalise that.

If you put a compressor on the file to reduce the loud bits, you could then normalise the track and that would give a beter result.

If you want to get out of if quickly, what you can do (assuming that you have Nero Burning software), is record all tracks individually then when burning check the 'normalise' all tracks, that might be a quick way.

Personally, I'd record the whole lot, chop it up into tracks and normalise each track individually, make sure they sound OK together then burn it to CD.

Porter
 
Thanks Porter

This "cadence tape is one continous thingy. Cadence is the running suff you here in the military. I don't know what you've been told, but digireccers are mighty bold! keep it up your doin fine, those record lables are getin' in line! left foot march"

Anyway it keeps doin stuff like that for 20 minutes on each side of the tape. This tape is done live, It sounds like, while they are running. You can even here a jet fly over head in one part.

There are parts that are much smaller than others in the wav patten . It really shouldn't be like this because this stuff is continuous.

I don't know if that makes any sense

Any ideas?

dana
 
Sorry.. I wasn't too sure of what you meant by a continous tape... What I would try would to be to load in one side (do this in Sound Forge), run dynamics processing on it so it reduces the louder bit and brings it down to a comparable level to the rest of the tape then Normalise the file.

Porter
 
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