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Stephen Ballew

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Hello,

This is my first post on this BBS.

At my church we have a very nice sound system which is so complicated that it puts fear into my heart. The final stero signal from this system goes into a very nice tape recorder.

I was wondering what equipment I would need to take this signal and send it to a PC, save it as an MP3 file, edit it, and then put it on tape/CD, and the internet.

Thanks for your help,

Stephen Ballew
 
Hook the tape recorder outputs (after recorded) and send them to a sound card on the computer with line in. You will prob need a stereo cord. (2 rca male at one end and 1 1/8" jack that is stereo on the other. Check out Radio Shack they can help you. Then you need a wav recording program for the PC.
 
Or you can chuck the output from the sound system that goes into the tape deck into the PC and record it to the PC directly, skipping the tape deck altogether.
 
That is if you feel like dragging the computer to the church :) If you do, it will most likely give better results as you skip the sound-to-tape-to-sound conversions.

Also, you probably want to edit the sound before you make MP3s out of it. What editing are you talking about?
 
As editing goes I'll probabbly just need to chop a bit from the begining and end of the recording.

I do hope to have a computer set up in the sound room all of the time, but how big and powerful does it need to be? Some services can be over an hour long, (not that I mind) :).

Also, what will I need to have to output the computer to the tape recorder, and record the edited MP3 or WAV to tape?
 
I have a related question. I'm trying to use WinAmp to take the audio signal onto a WAV file. Seeing as how WinAmp isn't the most intuitive or user friendly piece of software I've ever seen, I have yet to be able to figure out how to configure it to get that file written. Any suggestions?
 
As you're planning on recording the already mixed stereo sound, you really don't need a fancy computer. Just about any old can will manage that. You will need a bit of hard disk space though but not too much. If you record at CD quality, 16bit/44.1kHz, you need 176,6kb per second or about 640Mb per hour. At 24bit/96kHz (DVD quality) you'll need 3,3 times that. What soundcard do you have?

When you want to record to tape, you simply plug the soundcard line out where the mixer went into the tape recorder.
 
DockTrash, to get Winamp to convert an MP3 to a wav (I think this is what you're wanting to do), go to "Preferences," then to "Output" and change the output to Disk Writer. You can go to the configuration in Disk Writer to set the output directory of the wav's. The wav file will be effected by your EQ in Winamp, so be sure to turn it off if you don't want it in there.

[This message has been edited by Orion (edited 07-31-2000).]
 
I use Cool Edit 2000 for converting mp3 to wav.

If you're going to make both mp3's and CD-R's, don't burn an mp3 to a CD-R. use the original wav for the Cd. Some people have the strange idea that you should convert everything to mp3 first before burning the CD.
 
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