lonesometwin

On a bit of exploration it turns out that you can just right-click where you need your new section and click 'insert file'. Not sure if you can make them overlap tho. I'll give it a go

Wavepad is designed to do stuff to one track. MixPad er.. mixes tracks together!

You need to dig deep into the pc's internals to dig out an audio stream. NCH do SoundTap for this. You still won't be able to extract DRM'd streams tho, which will be ALL the worthwhile ones There are others out there tho. Who is your friend?

Thanks, so i guess i need to trash the wave pad and move on to this software you suggest?

 

No problem, gotta do what you gotta do.

 

secondly how do i, what do i, buy to use as a good mic and how can i record two different tracks at the same time with it or can it be done?

 

my guitar has an equalizer on it so i could plug into a separate feed if i knew what equipment to buy.

 

thanks

stephen

I got this link off the NCH pages, reckon they had you in mind USB Hardware. Doubt if you have to lose Wavepad to put Mixpad on either.

I know essentially nothing about this kind of software, which is why I am asking which software I will need.

Here is what I want to do:

 

Put together One-Hour radio programs featuring both spoken word and music. The spoken word will be from CD, cassette tapes and also from a live mike. The music will all be from CDs.

 

I will need to edit which pieces of the spoken word get used, so will need to edit specific clips.

 

Music may start softly near the end of a spoken word excerpt and then the volume increased as the spoken word ends.

 

Some of the spoken word excerpts on cassette are not the best sound quality. Can either of these technologies help clean up these old cassettes?

 

Also, can the cassettes be imputed to the computer and then converted to digital so they can be recorded onto CD?

thank you for your imput

Spencer in Olympia, WA

There are other posts on these fora about the dearth of replies, so I thought I'd buck the trend

From the NCH stable, what you want is Golden Record. I haven't tried it, since I only been using their software (Wavepad and Switch) for about 2 hours, as a replacement for Steinbergs now obsolete offerings. If the quality of these so far carries thru NCH might have a future!

From long experience though, software post-processing can give cassettes particularly a whole new lease of life. You take a sample of 'silent noise' from the tape, subtract it from the recording, and it comes out amazingly bright and shiny, tho I'm only assuming Golden Record can do this. Trun the dolby on the player off, it never worked right anyway

HTH - a convert