Soundforge help pwease...

[Northern Star]

after ripping my tapes i notice that bass sounds really...well basey its sounding pretty distorted....do i need to set some levels or something in order to make it sound better

sorry to be a thicko but i am a girl

anyways any help be much appreciated

[turpieaj]

Debs,
It will be your recording options in your soundcards control panel.
I take it you have a soundblaster type thing.

Click on the loudspeaker icon in your task bar to bring up the mixer.
This will usually show the playing mixer, go to advanced options and select the recording mixer and adjust the sliders down to reduce the distortion.

Andy

[Northern Star]

Originally Posted by turpieaj

Debs,
It will be your recording options in your soundcards control panel.
I take it you have a soundblaster type thing.

Click on the loudspeaker icon in your task bar to bring up the mixer.
This will usually show the playing mixer, go to advanced options and select the recording mixer and adjust the sliders down to reduce the distortion.

Andy

thanks andy...for some reason i dont have the little speaker icon.......ive gone into my control panel and selected the audio options but its not giving me the mixer screen...i know which bit your on about i just dont know why i cant seem to find it

[coggledots]

control panel - sounds & audio devices - Audio (tab) - volume button on sound recording - reduce the slider which has a tick in the 'select' box

ermmm.....all this is in XP btw....hope it helps?

But i think your really wanting to reduce the bass on the ones you've already uploaded to your PC, rather than do em all again????

[Northern Star]

Originally Posted by coggledots

control panel - sounds & audio devices - Audio (tab) - volume button on sound recording - reduce the slider which has a tick in the 'select' box

ermmm.....all this is in XP btw....hope it helps?

But i think your really wanting to reduce the bass on the ones you've already uploaded to your PC, rather than do em all again????

some of them are ok it just seems to be the last couple of rips ive done.....think id rather do them agian.....ill have a look at the audio tab setting but im sure ive beent here b4

cheers folks

[ilovepiano]

Might be obvious, but are you sure you're plugged into the line input on your soundcard and not the mic input?

[Northern Star]

yeah got that sussed cus we had to change the channels sounds fine when im playing the tape through the pc is just the play back thats dodgy

[Northern Star]

Originally Posted by coggledots

control panel - sounds & audio devices - Audio (tab) - volume button on sound recording - reduce the slider which has a tick in the 'select' box

ermmm.....all this is in XP btw....hope it helps?

But i think your really wanting to reduce the bass on the ones you've already uploaded to your PC, rather than do em all again????

Nice 1 Coggles mate....found it now....doh cheers managed to turn the vol down now so ill see how i go much appreciated

it was on full whack btw

[turpieaj]

Originally Posted by Northern Star

Nice 1 Coggles mate....found it now....doh cheers managed to turn the vol down now so ill see how i go much appreciated

it was on full whack btw

I usually have all me sliders set to around three quarter level mark.

Andy

[Northern Star]

Originally Posted by turpieaj

I usually have all me sliders set to around three quarter level mark.

Andy

All of them line in out in out shake it all about....i only adjusted the volume..........

[V.D.R]

Originally Posted by Northern Star

All of them line in out in out shake it all about....i only adjusted the volume..........

When using sound forge, all you need to do is make sure the level indicator, to the R.H.S of your screen doesnt go in to the red, the main settings are quite easy to manage Volume, Graphics, aslo fads pans and effects ect.
If you get stook give us a shout, BTW what version are you using.