Re: [Harp-L] Re: Music Software & Hardware Advice Sought



Audacity is a reasonable choice for recording and editing.

To transfer cassettes the easiest thing, assuming you have a cassette deck is to run it directly into your sound card and record using Audacity. There are also inexpensive USB sound interfaces for well under $100. Behringer makes one that's adequate for somewhere in the $30 range. The USB device will probably give you better results than a motherboard sound interface. You can also buy pretty decent sound cards for around $30. If you aren't used to installing add on cards the USB solution would be easier.

DC8 (http://www.diamondcut.com/store/index.php) is very nice prosumer software for sound editing and noise reduction. It's $159 and offers more features than Audacity as well as some better noise reduction tools. It may be more than you want. I've used several generations of it for digitizing CDs and cleaning up reissues of pre-WWII blues records.

On 11/7/2013 6:49 AM, Scott Hicks wrote:
Audacity is a very good choice for this as well. You can slow songs down while retaining the pitch, and easily chop songs up to include only the parts you want to work on. Also, and this is pretty cool, you can adjust the pitch of the song without changing the speed. My band wanted to do a song that was originally recorded in A#, but lower it to A for our version. I shifted the pitch in Audacity and the quality was excellent, more than good enough for me to learn with.

Scott

Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:02:57 +0100
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Music Software & Hardware Advice Sought
From: fmajor7@xxxxxxxxx
To: shuffling@xxxxxxxxx
CC: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx

Hello David,

I have been using Adobe Audition for the last ten years as the software to
record/edit/clean and do many other things.
However, Audacity (a free software) also does all that.
With Adobe Audion I can slow down a song (keeping the same pitch) or change
pitch (by half tones).
I have transferred hundreds of songs from cassettes to my PC/Laptop just by
playing the cassette in a portable cassette player or a cassette deck and
attaching its "line out" to the "line in" of my computer using a cable. You
then open your software, select the record source and record - thats it !
You can also record your harmonica, if you want - even create your own
multi-track recordings.
After recording a song you can remove the tape hiss or any noise using the
software.

If you have any questions just send me an email.

Gautam


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Shuffling <shuffling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I'd be grateful for any advice about software and/or hardware I'm looking
for. Ideally, I'd appreciate recommendations for what to get and where to
find it.

(1) Software (or hardware for that matter) that will slow down recorded
music without changing the pitch, making it easier to decipher when trying
to transcribe it or learn it by ear.

(2) A piece of equipment and any related software by which I can
transfer music from cassette tape to a computer or directly to CD.

Thanks,

David

  		 	   		




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