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JFord
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 Posted - Sat Mar 24, 2001 6:02 pm
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Sorry for the long post, but I feel a little overwhelmed right now. I also feel very inadequate after reading the postings in this forum. I mean I am a pretty technical guy (I make money from software development), but I obviously don't know squat about digital audio editing since I can barely follow most of the entries here.
I have used CE for several versions to perform simple edits on WAV and MP3 files, but now I am focused on transferring my out of print and rare LPs to CD. I am not an audiophile, I doubt that I could distinguish a good recording from a great recording (I think I went deaf from attending too many Who concerts) so I am just looking for credible recordings.
I have found that there is way more required to pull this off than I had originally expected. I would love to read a "Cool Edit for Dummies" book, but unless I am wrong nothing even close appears to exist. If anyone has any recomeendations I will take them and disappear while I read.
My main question is general and simple -- can anyone give me (or point me to) the important steps for creating decent CDs from LPs?
I have a nice Technics 1600 turntable which I decided might be best connected directly to my Dell Latitude laptop sound card (a poor piece of hardware for this I am sure), but would I be better off going through my amplifier for any reason?
Finally, I have also found that I cannot monitor my recording while using the microphone input, but I could when using the other input. I have read that there may be some setting on my sound card for doing this, but I can't find that particular switch if it exists. Any ideas on that?
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younglove
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Daniel Fortune
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shagrock
Location: USA
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Posted - Mon Mar 26, 2001 8:05 am
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I have a nice Technics 1600 turntable which I decided might be best connected directly to my Dell Latitude laptop sound card (a poor piece of hardware for this I am sure), but would I be better off going through my amplifier for any reason?
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On the turntable, the output of the cartridge is too low to, to go directly into the sound card. Plus the phono pre-amp does the RIAA eq. What I do is go into my pre-amp (carver) and I use the tape outputs to go into my sound card.
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