[sdiy] Sound recording program advice ???

[Michael Zacherl]

Hi Harry,

I'm running version 1.0.0 (1.1.3 meanwhile AFAIK) of Audacity on a just 
a bit faster machine.
It's compact and nice to your ressources.

I use its noise-removal plugin to de-hiss some old recordings with great 
success (works with getting a "noise profile" (fingerprint) and applying 
it to the whole file).

Exports as WAV, MP3 (LAME encoder!) and OGG.

And it's free!

Have a try: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

     HTH, Michael.

harrybissell wrote:
> Hiya all...
> 
> I want to record some old tapes from cassette to .wav using my sound
> card.
> 
> Now this is a crippled legacy machine, 6X86-133MHz processor, and a 16
> bit soundblaster clone card (AD1816 controller).  So I nned something
> really
> low in system overhead.
> 
> I can use the Win98 resident sound recording device to get about 28 sec
> of glorious 44.1K 16 bit stereo, without glitches.  Doing this with some
> of the
> other programs I've tried causes terrible glitches, stuttering.
> 
> I'm looking for some reasonable freeware or shareware program... Nice if
> it worked
> with Exact Audio Copy, which I'm using now, but who cares ???
> 
> Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope....
> 
> (replies that suggest I get a life / new machine will be greeted with
> what we expatriates
> of New York call a "Bronx Cheer" :^)
> 
> H^) harry