I've been out of town for a while.. sorry for the lag in this reply... I recorded several reel 2 reel tapes onto cds.. Heres a few suggestions..
1) find out if the reel to reel player is mono or stereo.. most likely its mono.. in which case, take a line out of it and plug it into your computers left input and only record a single channel... then use software such as audacity to copy the single channel to a second channel... designate one channel as left and the other as right and combine them to a stereo track.. Another option is to split the single channel out to two channels and record in stereo... the problem though is that by doing so your input level drops by half as the line out has to drive two inputs... You then have to crank up the volume for input sometimes increasing line noise. 2) Unless you are really really confortable with noise removal software, don't use it. I tried about 10 programs... commercial and freeware and was not happy with their result... they distorted the signal too much... I eventually just did some manual wav manipulation to remove pops and recorded the rest as is... in 10 years when noise removal technology increases, I'll have a as-close-to-original copy as possible to work off of.... you might just consider buring one copy with noise before you try to remove it.. -matt On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Here's what my brother used: > > > Gramofile. it's an ncurses app. Menu based, linear, easy to understand. You > > record the audio, then possibly process it to remove noise that's common to > > vinyl recordings (what it's for, really), and then let it detect the gaps > > between songs. > > > > http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/ > > Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > My brother was doing something similar for my dad. I'll ask him what he > > used and send links. > > > > Jacob Albretsen wrote: > > > >> I was thinking Art would have the most experience in this area, but > >> I'll ask everyone. > >> > >> My dad wants to use a computer to take all of his old open reel tapes > >> and record them digitally (wav) and burn them to CD. I am pretty sure > >> it's possible by playing them on his old player, through some sort of > >> amplifier, then into the mic plug and use a program to record them. > >> > >> I've never done something like this before. All I have ever used > >> sound for is to play music on the computer... that's it. I have not a > >> clue what to look at in the way of programs or setting it up. > >> > >> Any advise, links, software suggestions, or HOWTOs would be welcome. > >> If I can do this for him in Linux, I might be able to sell him on at > >> least trying it. > >> > >> > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
