--- Forwarded Message from Damion Renner <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:30:55 -0400 >From: Damion Renner <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:07:43 EDT From: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> Subject: #6727 Recording from cassette into computer Hello Mr. Millard, A better sound card will if anything produce a better signal to noise ratio, though any 16 bit PCI sound card should be adequate for digitizing analog material. The sound quality will depend a great deal on the quality of the source. If you have poorly recorded tapes, the end result will be poor in quality. For poor quality tape recordings, i use a Tascam 133 tape deck which allows me to boost the left and right channels independently to get a stronger output signal. The Deck also has Dolby Noise reduction which removes some of the surface noise before it gets to the sound card. Once the recording is digitized you can further improve the sound quality by using the filters within a sound editor like Cool Edit Pro or Sound Forge. CEP has a noise reduction filter which I've found very useful for voice recordings, and the eq is not bad either. Just remember with poor quality recording the best you can do is to try and make it sound better than the original...the success of this depends on various techniques which you'll have to experiment with. Let me know if you have specific questions as I've done a great deal of this type of work using many different combinations of hardware and software, not limited to what I mentioned above. Good Luck -Damion Renner _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Damion Renner Multimedia Specialist -Multimedia Centre in the Humanities Information Officer/Webmaster -Computing in the Humanities Phone: 416-926-1300 x.3256 416-978-2535 Email: [log in to unmask] _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ --- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] --- >From: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Recording from cassette into computer >Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:20:31 -0400 >We have faculty who would like to record from cassette directly into our >Language Lab computers using LINE IN. >While it does record, the audio quality is very poor, unacceptable for >their >use. Has anyone dealt with this problem before? Is it because we are >bringing analog sound into a digital source? If we invest in higher >quality >sound cards will this help? >I'm not worried about formats or compression, etc at this time. Once I >get >higher quality .wav files I can deal with converting them later. >Any insight you can provide would be much appreciated. >Thanks! >Jim Millard >Senior Technology Support Specialist >Instructional Technology Center >Saint Michael's College >DL337, Box L >Colchester, VT 05439 >(802) 654-2983 ------------------------------