Chadwick
12-22-2001, 03:01 AM
Hi guys,
I\'m looking for some words of experience as far as simply editing CD tracks on a notebook goes.
My daughter\'s ballet teachers often use edited versions of pieces of music for performances (yes they pay license fees).
The current method is to run from CD or tape onto a second tape recorder, hit pause where the edit is, find the next part on the source audio, hit play and record at the same time etc., until the complete piece is recorded, and cross your fingers as you rewind to listen to the result.
The result usually involves a few problems:
1. Bodgy edit points (although one teacher can do it incredibly well - glitchless edit points, even tape to tape!)
2. Bodgy audio levels - sometimes they also manually adjust the soft sections as they are recording in order to lower the dynamic range...
3. Tape to tape generation loss, dolby hiss, tape weaving etc.,
I nearly wet myself when they explained how they worked. It seemed sooo labour intensive, with a really garbagey end result.
This year I took about 50 of their pieces, did a little novice noise reduction and mastering on them, and put them on a set of CDs. They\'d previously had two bags crammed with tapes, now they\'ve got 4 CDs. But really, all I accomplished was to take their tapes and go down yet another generation. Soon I\'ll be redoing their edits on the original CDs.
I\'ve suggested they get a PC for the school, and I think they probably intend to use a desktop for the job, but then I thought about the fact that some of their teachers would probably enjoy the portability of a notebook, so that they could make their masters at home on their own time.
Basically, we\'re talking about being able to do just a few things with audio:
1. Rip it into the PC from a CD.
2. Play it into the PC from a tape recorder.
3. Edit the audio - basic cut and paste, maybe a crossfade, normalizing, compressing.
4. Burn the results to a CD.
I know a lot of people say forget doing audio on a notebook, and I know it\'s still a tough one for multitracking, but what about the scenario above? Do you think it would be doable? If so, what do you think would be a sensible level notebook for this kind of work??
Thanks guys
I\'m looking for some words of experience as far as simply editing CD tracks on a notebook goes.
My daughter\'s ballet teachers often use edited versions of pieces of music for performances (yes they pay license fees).
The current method is to run from CD or tape onto a second tape recorder, hit pause where the edit is, find the next part on the source audio, hit play and record at the same time etc., until the complete piece is recorded, and cross your fingers as you rewind to listen to the result.
The result usually involves a few problems:
1. Bodgy edit points (although one teacher can do it incredibly well - glitchless edit points, even tape to tape!)
2. Bodgy audio levels - sometimes they also manually adjust the soft sections as they are recording in order to lower the dynamic range...
3. Tape to tape generation loss, dolby hiss, tape weaving etc.,
I nearly wet myself when they explained how they worked. It seemed sooo labour intensive, with a really garbagey end result.
This year I took about 50 of their pieces, did a little novice noise reduction and mastering on them, and put them on a set of CDs. They\'d previously had two bags crammed with tapes, now they\'ve got 4 CDs. But really, all I accomplished was to take their tapes and go down yet another generation. Soon I\'ll be redoing their edits on the original CDs.
I\'ve suggested they get a PC for the school, and I think they probably intend to use a desktop for the job, but then I thought about the fact that some of their teachers would probably enjoy the portability of a notebook, so that they could make their masters at home on their own time.
Basically, we\'re talking about being able to do just a few things with audio:
1. Rip it into the PC from a CD.
2. Play it into the PC from a tape recorder.
3. Edit the audio - basic cut and paste, maybe a crossfade, normalizing, compressing.
4. Burn the results to a CD.
I know a lot of people say forget doing audio on a notebook, and I know it\'s still a tough one for multitracking, but what about the scenario above? Do you think it would be doable? If so, what do you think would be a sensible level notebook for this kind of work??
Thanks guys