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>Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 09:47:21 -0500
>From: Jim <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5532 digitizing audio for PC (hardware recommendations wanted)
>Sender: Jim <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Foru <[log in to unmask]>
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What format are you recording to in your digital audio studio? DAT or MD?
You can get a card for your PC that can accept digital signals direct
(for example digital optical SPDIF) and connect your digital recording
device to the computer via this kind of card. Then your signal can remain
in the digital domain throughout the process. This as opposed to putting
a digitalizing card in the computer and re digitalizing your recordings.
That is going from digital to analog to digital again.
I'm using a SEK'D Prodif 32 card in my Mac with an MD deck. Most of
SEK'D's cards are made for windows. Check www.bayviewproaudio.com for a
wide selection of cards and prices. I find MD to be great for recording
originals (74 minutes sterio-148 minutes mono). Rough edits can be done
(getting ride of long pauses, false starts, etc.), track markers can be
placed anywhere, and tracks can be moved. Also tracks can be found as
quickly as finding tracks on a CD. With tape you can't do this.
Jim
>I am looking for recommendations for PC hardware (sound cards, I imagine)
>for digitizing audio of medium-to-high-quality.
>
>For our very high-quality needs (such as recording original materials in
>our digital audio recording studio for use in commercial-quality products),
>we will be investigating expensive hardware such as that made by Digidesign.
>
>However, I am trying to find a cheaper solution for our computers being
>used by faculty to develop less quality-intensive materials, for example,
>web-based course materials. For software, we want to use CoolEdit (we're
>also investigating Sound Forge and some others), but it's the hardware that
>has the problem. Right now we're using the sound cards that come with our
>Dells (a variety of them, including TBS, Yamaha, and some others), but they
>all have the regular old 1/8" "walkman-style" speaker and microphone jacks,
>inviting noise problems. Does anyone know of a better sound card that might
>let us use RCA inputs or something else along those lines? What are you
>using for audio digitizing at this level?
>
>(Of course, this quandry makes even a PC-user like me long for a nice
>PowerMac 8100 A/V, but I really am hoping to find a PC-based solution.)
>
>thanks,
>Brad
>
>
>______________________________
>Bradley Gano
>Assistant Director for Technology
>Center for Language Study
>Yale University
>http://www.yale.edu/cls
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