hey Taylor you'll be after an audio editor for the recording + sound restoration side. Cool Edit is very popular but you could equally use a sequencer like the free one from Quartz Audio which would do an almost identical job. For burning well yer better loading the finished .wav files into a standard burning program. There are free ones about check relevant section of this site. I think cubase does the entire package but u talking $500

: 1) Record the entire side of the cassette onto the PC as is (ie unattended recording)
: 2) "Tag" individual songs within the side but with no (noticeable) space between songs
: 3) Burn the CD

: Optional items would be to balance the sound/tone of the recording either upon record or post record before burning.

: Any pointers to a good package that may help me do this?

: Thanks, Taylor

None of the "affordable" software will burn to more than one burner, simply
because not may people have more than one burner. Who need to do it don't use
software, they use a CD duplicating machine.

Andy

Sorry, but you can't plug your guitar directly into your computer unless the Audio/Sound card offers a dedicated 'Instrument' input. The two levels aren't matched. I'm not saying you wont get a sound, it just isn't right, at all...

What you need is to line level the guitar. I have used a DI (direct injection) box that will level an intrument input to that of a line level... They aren't that expensive and anyone that is still plugging their guitars into a line level will thank me for the improvement of sound and electrical isolation from guitar to mixer/input...

I recommend an Active DI box but a Passive one will do if the active is past your price range. Make sure it's self powered as some require powering through XLR or similar..

Steve...R

Hi, I believe I am the man who can help, since I am a
fellow guitarist/computerist musician. However what u asked
for is not one software but rather a number of them, and it depends on ur
OS, ur budget a lot in order to get what u want with variations in
quality.

1. plug in your guitar

You can alraedy do that, I assume u already know that, u just need a guitar
cable and u can plug the end of it to either the mic in input or
the line in input. Line in input is cleaner.

2. Different amp sounds

This is the difficult part. There are audio plug ins (VST and DX) that can add distortion,
rever, overdrive, wah, etc... to your sounds. These plug ins are not
programs by themselves, they are additions to a program u already have which is a host
multitrack editing software such as cakewalk, sonar, cubase, acid pro, etc...
When it comes to AMP simulation is specific. There are only a handful of attempts.
There's Alien Connections Revalver, which is relatively cheap and u
customize ur stack of amps pretty much customized for the guitar
of course. There's also BeatModel Amplee. These are PC version of it. The best version
however requires that u have a MAC, and ProTools, THEN u can get the amp plug in which is called
AmpFarm. AmpFarm is by far the best! It has amps such as Marshall and Fender, and if u r a guitar
player, I am sure u can appericiate that!

3. Program drum tracks to play to

Ok, there are MANY MANY software that can do that with various
degrees of quality. There are tracking software which u can track
or code drum tracks or non drum tracks (virtually any isntrument there is).
Its free, however its pretty technical. A good example would be
Modplug TRacker. Besides that there are just many small utilities with that function.
I am not familiar with their names, but if u go to www.hitsquad.com/smm and
search under the drum category u should find many. Another good example of a
program that I definetly recomment yet pretty expensive, yet it has unmatchable quality.
This program is called Propellerhead Reason.

4. Record and mix onto CD

That's a whole different story! ;) I am assuming after u got ur composition and arrangment done
u would want to mix and master ur stuff before burning. If you are new, and not good with computers,
my first suggestion would be Sonic Foundry Acid Pro 3.0. Its VERY easy to understand, yet its a very powerful
multitrack editing software (remember the plug ins I told u about earlier 'distortion', etc, u can add those plug ins
to ACID, which will be useful for you. ACID can mix, master, and burn the tracks.
When it comes to RECORDING ur guitar tracks to begin with, I suggest
Cool Edit Pro 1.2 or SoundForge XP. These are the best
audio recorder programs. Through them u can edit the sound, fix it up, enhance it, etc, before taking all the tracks
to ACID for final mix. Other than ACID that do pretty much the same job, there's
CAkewalk, Sonar, Emagic, Quartz, Cubase, ProTools, etc..

Whew...u asked a handful! ;)

Hope that helps,
Hish

hey Michal,

4 tracks of audio in it and it looks real nice is easy to use too. Protools also do a nice free 4 track sequencer but it's harder to get to grips with i think.

http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/SoftwareHouse/Products/Audio_Master/audio_master.html

: Hi everyone,
: What's the best FREE software for simple mixing (3-4 tracks) for Windows? Both n-studio and the CoolEdit plugin are demo versions.
: Thanks!!!

Not a relative I hope... ;0)

Steve...R

Ahmed,

I am not sure what you are asking for?
You want to upgrade your .wave files? In what sense?
If you are considering vocal remover the upgrade
that there is no one ACCURATE REAL vocal remover on
regular wave files. If you look at the top right section
of the www.hitsquad.com/smm/wwwboard page you'll see that
this topic was covered thoroughly. To simplify things,
it is impossible to take out the vocals without affecting
the other tracks and instrument in the song. That does not
mean that such software does not exist. Some are free too,
but they simply dont do the job.

Hope that helps,
Hish

P.S. If you meant something else by upgrading your .wave files
then please clarify so I can help!

The double glazing idea is great although you can build up standing waves in between the glass so it's important to make sure the two pans of glass are tilted and not parallel with each other. A standing wave is a frequency that fits perfectly in size in the distance between the two panes of glass and will be audible. If the glass panes are off parallel, then the waves die out quickly.. A little picture...

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If you can imagine that being two panes of glass from side on. It's not much of an extra job for a window fitter..

Cya

Steve...R