>Subject: >[SLUG] Audio Mastering Tools/Suites >From: >"Craig Mead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: >Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:03:03 +1100 >To: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>About to set up a new Audio Editing machine (bootleg mastering), >considering the OS options, would like to go for a flavour of *nix >with a GUI but am not really up to speed on the quality and/or >usefulness of any of the nix based Editing Suites. (as it's only >bootleg mastering, it doesn't need to be multitrack, and only >requires stuff like filters, EQ, compression etc etc)
Alot depends on how audiophillic you are. I run SuSE 7.3 on a celeron 600 with el cheapo no names soundcard (media electronics?)and 20 gig HD. (One day I would like to afford an Audigy Soundblaster card and run a AMD MP 2*** but for now...)The SuSE Gui is very nice imho. SuSE seems to cater for audio stuff. There are several apps for this kind of mastering. I use Broadcast2000 to record vinyl to wav.I use about 2% of its functionality. Bcast2000 is based upon a sound studio edit suite. I use XCDRoast to Burn. And I use oggenc to compress files.
I believe the latest apps in 8.1 are a step up.I am about to upgrade to find out for myself. There is an app called gramofile that is clunky looking but geared to filtering noise scartch etc from vinyl and other analog media. Not sure if SuSE still bundles with that. Check out their web site.
XCD Roast is a very simple to use GUI for Burning. Again in 8.1 this is supposed to be better again. You can burn to TAO, DAO.
For CD rip/burn and cleaning up uncompressed mp3 downloaded files the command line cd paranoia is very good for the perfectionist. XCD Roast GUI app is fine for me. To uncompress mp3s there is no GUI but mpg123 is very easy to use.
If you want to compress files the Linux open source way there is the ogg vorbis Project (open source version of mp3). If you know nothing about that then check out http://www.xiph.org.
Suse 7.3 has no mp3 compression software due to the Fraunhofer Inst LAME licence fees. But there are plenty of Mp3 compression apps in RPMFind or look at Freshmeat. But ogg is really where it's at.
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>Also, if there was tools to create ISO's from the WAV's direct on the >*nix
>machine if you could let me know.
There is a command line app mkisofs. XCD Roast enables you to select all Win and Unix iso formats Rock Ridge, Joliet when you burn.
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Linux developers seem pretty enthusiastic about all things audio (gdam *Geoff and Dave's audio mixer* is a celebrated DJ music industry example). Hope that is of some use.
Raena :-)
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