recording a sample to a pc faq

[butty]

eh up. jus wonderd if anyone has seen on there travels or on past posts on the board a faq on how to rip a sample from tape etc to a pc. incl all the gubbins with the leads software n all that shiznit. or if anyone could put together one who is good at explainin stuff in a step by step formation. its for the tune id siteage i need it for

ta

[ilovepiano]

Don't remember one mate, but giz a few mins and I'll do one for you.

[ilovepiano]

DUMMY'S GUIDE TO TAPE RIPPAGE


You will need:

• Source material to be ripped
• A computer
• A lead to connect your tape player / CD player etc to your computer
• Recording software

For the software I suggest you use something like Adobe Audition, Sound Forge, or Goldwave. Goldwave is free to try and can be downloaded from here

Adobe Audition and Sound Forge are expensive, but can be "aquired" for free if you know what I mean...

OK here goes, propper basic style:


First you'll need to connect your tape player or similar to your pc. If it's like a seperate tape or CD player there will most likely be a LINE OUT socket on the back. This will probably be a stereo phono output.
If you are recording from a protable player, the headphone socket will work fine, just make sure the volume isn't up to high.

Next, locate the LINE INPUT on your PC sound card. This will probably be a minijack plug, so the cable you need will either need to be:

1. A minijack to minijack
2. Stereo phono to minijack

They look like this:






OK, fire up your audio software. You may need to configure your soundcard so that the level for the line input is turned up, and un-muted. You'll be able to do this through the control panel in Windows. You may also need to select LINE INPUT in the software too. It might default on mic input or something.

When this is done start your tape. You should be able to hear the tape playing through the computer speakers.

Depending on what programme you're using, there will be a level meter somewhere on the screen. If it is maxed out in the red, then turn the input gain down, or the headphone level on your tape player - if recording from the headphone socket. You can't "overcook" the digital input like you can on an analogue recording. It results in what is know as CLIPPING, and sounds horrible. You want the level so that it is peaking below the red. Don't worry about the dB, it's complicated to explain. Just remember that red is bad, and green is cool.

Once you're happy, set the computer recording. The record button on the screen will be pretty obvious. I know that after pressing record on Adobe Audition, it asks you what bit rate you want to record at. I don't know about other programmes, you may have to set this before you start to record.

The setting you want is 44.1Khz / 16 bit - which is CD quality. The 44.1 means that there will be 44,100 "snippits" of audio recorded every second. This works out at roughly 10Mb per minute.

After you've record what you want, you can trim any unwanted bits from the beginning and the end. Select the unwanted portion by using the mouse like you would to highlight text, and hit delete.




Saving options - really all you need to bother with are:

WAV - uncompressed CD quality audio = big file
MP3 - compresses audio = small file

If you're ripping part of a tape to be ID'd, then it's a good idea to make it as small as you can to save server space, and make it quicker for others to download. MP3 is what you need. You might as well save it as MONO instead of STEREO as this will half the size of the file. Lower the bit rate, and it will go even smaller. Anything less that 96Kb/sec is going to start sounding gash, unless you've just recorded a 100th generation tape that sounded gash anyway, lol. If you want it sounding better, I would advise using a rate of at least 192Kb/sec

That should be about it, if you have any problems pm me.

[butty]

nice one for that dood that will b sweet that. il shout ya when im gonna post it over there

cheeeers

[Konspiracy]

Originally Posted by butty

eh up. jus wonderd if anyone has seen on there travels or on past posts on the board a faq on how to rip a sample from tape etc to a pc. incl all the gubbins with the leads software n all that shiznit. or if anyone could put together one who is good at explainin stuff in a step by step formation. its for the tune id siteage i need it for

ta

Deffo need something like this over there, Nice one ILP

[ilovepiano]

No worries, happy to help.

[tag]

hey cheers ILP ,very helpful tips there,ive been meaning to ask someone how to do it for ages now.

nice one bud

tag

[Geeky]

Originally Posted by ilovepiano

DUMMY'S GUIDE TO TAPE RIPPAGE

• Source material to be ripped
  You will need:
  
• A computer
• A lead to connect your tape player / CD player etc to your computer
• Recording software

Thats the fella I was looking for a while ago! Is that your material ILP? If it is, maybe you should get this copyrighted.

[ilovepiano]

Originally Posted by Geeky

Thats the fella I was looking for a while ago! Is that your material ILP? If it is, maybe you should get this copyrighted.

You must have been looking for something else mate, I only wrote that yesterday!

[ruffers]

Or install this tape deck in your pc... no idea if it's any good or not!

Plus Deck Cassette Converter

[Giginiello]

OK,

I am at your mercy here. I have the PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series, with the front bay X-Fi I/O Drive. I connect the red and white RCA jacks into those two RCA ports in the front and then the other two to the cassette deck Line In/Line Out RCA Red/White Jacks. That is all that is connected other than the electric plug on the casette deck and I cannot hear any music on my computer so I can record some clips. I am using that program you suggested Goldwave.

Please help. I want to get some clips posted so that they can be identified.

thanks,

Luigi