Very good advice. I can only add that
the widely excepted software for doing this is CDwav. There are numerous
problems that other software can create and this one is specifically designed to
avoid them. All the highest quality conversions are being done with CDWav and
best of all it's free. Well you can pay for it but the software author said all
it gets you is a clear conscience. Basically you can download and use it free
and if at some time you feel like you want to pay him $15 he has something set
up to take it.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 6:27
PM
Subject: Re: [Zappa-List] gmail accounts,
etc.
well, i don't need a gmail account, but i found myself in a
similar situation, so here are my 2c below.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005,
hoosac1877 wrote:
> It wasn't until about two months ago that I
finally acquired the > ability to burn CDs... and I have yet to do so.
Thus, here's my > question: what would be the best way to transfer all
these Maxell and > TDK tapes to CDs? By "best," I mean in what manner
would I be able to > best preserve the integrity of the original
recording? How would I go
Fortunately, even if you did a fabulous job
collecting, the odds are that what's already out in the digital realm is in
most cases better than what you have on tape. So if you see a
fabulous-looking show appear as a bit torrent, download it, and compare
with what you already have. Not meaning any disrespect, but the odds are
that most of your collection already exists in the digital realm, and other
people have done the grunt work.
There are people who transfer by
playing analog tapes directly into their standalone CD burners. I don't
recommend that b/c you can't do any edits, and you have one shot to make it
right. Further, you're going directly to audio CD, which does introduce
errors compared to pure digital. (Way fewer than analog gens, but still,
going digital allows flawless distribution.)
So that means you'll
probably use a computer and capture card....
> about removing any
annoying and/or distracting cuts and breaks in the > recordings? What
would be the most economical way to transfer 1,600+ > hours of tape onto
CDs? What kinds of hardware and software would be > necessary to
accomplish this?
The task is actually to 'make digital' - you might
choose DVD as an audio storage medium instead. (I went with CD-R of audio
files and backup DVD's of the FLAC file image backups for storing and
sharing.)
There is a whole lot of info on capturing sound via computer,
and I'm sure people have sent you pointers to hardware. (My device works
great but is obsolete and no longer available.) My tips here are: 1)
Clean your analog deck and keep it in good shape 2) Don't use lossy formats
on capture 3) Sample at 44.1/16 so as to avoid the need for later
resampling to get ready for CD 4) The weak link in the cheapest setup
(hook up a tape deck to your analog soundcard and record on the PC/Mac) is
bound to be the audio input connector. You'll get lots of hum and noise -
computers are very electrically noisy and most soundcards use really low
quality shielding and parts to keep costs down.
Good
luck!
>>b
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