Dimmerdave

The first time I used the trial version of Wavepad it worked perfectly. Very simple for a non-tekkie like me. Then after a few recordings I would hit the red dot to record and it would immediately begin recording a loud, static-filled Spanish station broadcast. I thought this might be a quirk to get one to purchase the Masters Edition. When I need to send an mp3 to someone I went ahead and bought it. Once registered it again worked perfectly, then boom! Back came the Spanish broadcasts rendering the thing useless. That's where I sit, anyone had this experience?

More information is needed from you. What is your set-up? Are you using a turner/amplifier? Are you using a turntable with a magnetic cartridge? Have you checked your audio cable connections? Is there a Spanish radio station in your neighborhood?

I second that notion. It would be very useful to have markers to help in copy and paste operations.

Assuming there are no adjustments on the tuner, then you will need an attenuator pad. Check out this webpage for some info - http://www.uneeda-audio.com/pads/

If what you see there sounds like too much trouble, then hook up your tuner to an amplifier and connect the speaker outputs to you computer sound board. Start off with the amplifier volume control at the lowest setting. You will find that you will need to run the volume contol at almost a quarter of the way - this is because there is an impedance mis-match. The amplifier speaker output is at an impedance of about 8 ohms; while the computer sound board line-in jacks are built for about 1000 ohms. This mismatch will not effect the recording quality, it only effects the amount of power that will be transfered to the sound board. The attenuator pad will make for a lot less space used on your desktop, but if you have an amp handy - that will work for you too. You might also be able to buy an attenuator pad at Radio Shack.

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As far as I can tell, this feature of WavePad does not work--just as you have found. However, you would not be happy with it even if it _did_ work! I do not believe that anyone, anywhere, has yet been able to remove clicks and pops _automatically_, as you are led to believe by this seductive inclusion of this "control" in WavePad.

 

Unfortunately perhaps, removing clicks and pops is an art, not a science, and is enshrouded in black magic and witchcraft. Some clicks and pops cannot be dealt with, even manually, which you must use if really want to have any success. The problem here is that everything depends upon the SCALE that is being used to remove a particular click or pop or crackle, or whatever. Scale is what determines how fast the display scrolls by while you play the file. You can change the scale by zoom-in or zoom-out. This is best done using the keyboard controls CTRL + to zoom in and CTRL - to zoom out. You can use more keyboard clicks to zoom in or out to any degree that you desire. At some particular scale, when the display has been stopped (use the ESC key for this), the click or pop will show up as a distinct difference with the surrounding waveforms. Select a small portion surrounding this particular offender and use the keypress CTRL-SHIFT-S to fill up your screen with the small portion that you have selected. You will now be able to see, with graphic perfect, that nasty click or pop. Now select just that portion, press the DELETE key, and that offending little devil will disappear! Oh happy day. Now use several keyboard presses (CTRL -) to zoom out to where you began your search. You are now ready to search for the next little devil, etc., etc. This is a demanding task, and you may have to do this over and over and over and over again as you proceed through the file. Sound exciting, does it? It all depends upon how many hours you have in your day.

 

There is much more, but I can't go into it here. On the other hand, you may just decide to forget about removing those clicks and pops in order to retain your sanity. It depends upon your temperament and whether or not you have the view that, if you cannot get the job done in two minutes, then it is not worth tackling. But you see, _I_ have infinite patience, which comes from years of learning and understanding such things. This may not be _your_ cup of tea :-)

 

WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CLICKS AND POPS!

 

Don't say that you haven't been warned.

 

Musikone

 

 

Thanks for the shortcut keyboard control tips. You seem to know a bit about this so I would like to ask you a question about the noise reduction control under the effects menu. This is some kinds of spectral analysis thing - it seems to work pertty well. However there is and adjustment where you can specify what percent to use. I have been using a lower percent when the click is rather minor and a higher percent for a more major click. Still, I am unsure if this is the proper way to adjust this noise reduction process. I wonder if you have any insight as to exactly what is being adjusted and why or whether it should be adjusted.

I have not fully explored the WavePad Master Ediition software yet. Your suggestion about using the batch volume normalizer may work as well.

Hi all,

After i edit my aduio files and burn to CD, the volume level is too low. My Hi-Fi (which is very load) goes upto 32 points on the volume knob, but i have the crank it upto about 15 to get a decent level when playing the burned cd. I have amplified the volume on wavepad, but most of my files have their peak almost above the threshold, i.e. if i increase anything above 130-150% a lot of clipping will occur. The files i'm editing are mp3 files, so is there anyway to increase the volume without risking heavy clipping?

I may not be completely understanding your problem, but I found a program that can boost the volume of an MP3 directly by doing something to the MP3 code itself. It's normally used to adjust the volume of different files to a normalized setting so you don't have to be continually adjusting the volume for different songs. I've used it and it works great. So great, you would wonder why something like this isn't included in the WavePad software.