: I need to do something about the noise from my PC Now I have better mics an
: signal path it really stands out. I've already changed the PSU. I'm
: starting to Focus on the CPU cooler. Any recommendations on a really quiet
: unit for an AthlonXP2100?

I've got an Alpha PAL on my 2400+ & that works well - nice also because it
has mounting posts that secure it to the MB rather than the hideous spring
clip efforts - much easier to mount. Got a low speed 80mm fan on it & CPU
temps stay in the mid 40s. Doesn't fit on all MBs so check their website.

Also check out the Fan on your video card - mine was hideously noisy. If you
have a fan on the MB itself (on the Northbridge) that makes a racket too and
can be replaced with a Zalman fanless cooler (basically a bloody great
heatsink!)

HTH

Iain

As an SE instructor, I'd say first listen (and take notes! lots of notes!),
then ask the instructor during breaks, etc. about anything that conflicts
with your experience. If the instructor won't answer out of class, ask in
class. If the instructor won't take questions in class, tell them that I do.
If they still won't answer questions, get your money back, buy a book & move
to Tucson and I'll teach you. For a fee, of course... :(

Mikey

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: I am starting a course on sound engineering and mastering at a local college
: (its a short course so im not expecting to leave as an expert by any means)
: Should i go in there and act dumb as far as what i already know, or think i
: know and just accept their views or should i use my so called 'knoweldge'
: which is self taught. I don't want to complicate the course as little
: knoweldge is a dangerous thing. I always thought when you see a level meter
: ping off the end it was 'clipping' (digital) or distorting but i often see
: in recording studios these meters pinging off the end for every track, i
: always asusmed you should avoid the 'red'.. thats just an example of what i
: mean, so should i go in 'dumb' and accept what they say or should i add my
: views...

: Nathan D Higgins

: Hi All,

: I'm trying to think through in my head how I will be working the recording
: sessions for the voice track for an animated TV pilot I'm working on. Since
: I will be doing this alone for a while, I need to be able to control the
: recording equipment/software from the isolation booth. (Okay, fine, it's a
: closet with foam on the walls.) Which lead me to consider the LynxTWO card
: in the computer, and a small monitor and mouse in the closet. Except the
: LynxTWO requires a line level feed, so I'm faced with running the mic
: through a preamp, over which I would have no control while recording. Unless
: I put it in the closet with me, boy it's getting hot and crowded in there...

A preamp isn't all that big and unless you insist on a toob one,
doesn't get that hot. But once you get the level set in the ballpark,
you shouldn't have to, nor want to "control" the preamp. Just put it
in Record and start talking.

: I, too, am looking for that "big broadcast" sound, and it seems like I'd
: want to record at the highest level possible, so it seems to me that I'd
: want to be able to ride the preamp.

Nope, you don't want to ride the level. You want to control your voice
so that it's even, you might want to compress it when you can pay
attention to what you're doing, and you can adjust the level in "post"
as long as you haven't recorded 30 or 40 dB too low.

: One thing that's also bugging me is that the price range for mic preamps
: runs from about $80 to several thousand dollars. There's no way they are
: doing the same thing.

Oh, they all do the same thing - they amplify the output of the
microphone, just some of them sound better than others, and to further
complicate your life, the one that sounds best with one mic and on one
voice might not necessarily sound best with another voice or another
mic.

: So why can't I transfer that preamp function into the
: computer and take advantage of all that existing processing power?

Because you need to get the signal level from the microphone up to the
point where that power will do you some good. If your microphone and
A/D converter was really, really, really quiet, you could get away
with adding 20 dB or so of gain on the digital side without too much
damage, but it's cheaper and better to do it with a preamp. Unless
you'll be using more than one microphone at a time, you don't need any
more than one preamp channel and that will save you some money.

--
I'm really Mike Rivers - (mrivers@d-and-d.com)

: I have recently purchased Sound Forge 6 having used 4.0 for a couple
: of years.
: I edit a fair bit of mp3 downloaded from the net and find some tracks
: particularly, from the 1970s have a hollow/echo sound to them.
: As a real editing novice, can someone please tell me if it is possible
: to eliminate or at least reduce the echo, and if so, how do I do it
: with Sound Forge.
: Any help will be greatly appreciated.

'Noise gating' is about all you can really do, but will probably end up
sounding 'choppy'.

Of course MP3 encoding can make things sound pretty hollow itself....

geoff

: Does anyone know the trick to replacing the audio in a Sound Forge
: region with a new larger audio chunk, and having the region boundry
: expand to the right (and push all other regions to the right along
: with it)?

: Oddly enough, the right regins boundry moves to the left when
: replacing the audio with a smaller chunk.

I would think plain old copy and paste would do it. At least it will do the
actual replacing and moving the rest of the file down but you'll probably
have to update the region markers by hand. Another way to do it that would
handle the region markers for you is simply drag the audio to a blank spot
on the workspace and create a new file. Drag the head first then highlight
and drag the long region to the end (of the newly created window), then the
tail. Then save the new file with whatever name you want or close the old
file and save the new file under that name thereby overwriting the old file.

: My setup consists of a Mackie 1202-VLZ running into an Echo Mia audio
: card back out into HR824's. Everything runs into a P4 1.6 256DDR and
: Cakewalk 9. In time I will be getting a Great River Pre and Neumann
: TLM-103, but for right now I would like to upgrade my ADC.
: First off, is the Echo Mia equal to the Layla sonically? The Apogee
: Rosetta sounds like the one to have, but after much research I still
: have no idea what would be a good product to get the signal into the
: PC. I see several people have used the SPDIF input from various audio
: cards for this. Is there any sacrifices or limitations using this
: approach? If not then are all SPDIF inputs create equal? Is there a
: better solution?

: While on the subject, what about Apogee vs. Lucid vs. Lynx?

: If I don't figure these things out I will just buy a Layla and
: always wonder what I am missing :-/

FWIW, I went from a Layla 20 to the Lynx Two and have been very happy
with that card in every way.

--
Nick
http://www.cultv.com Fine arts & more
http://www.ironia.net My last band

<font color="#0000FF">: looking fo a wav file of chicken little saying
: "the sky is falling"..
: Thanks</font>

I think you'll have to record it yourself because if
you use one sampled from a film or tv show then you'll
have copyright problems.

Bonjour,

Veuillez pardonner mon français faible...

Il y a une publicité fonctionnant sur cet emplacement qui vous donne des vacances libres ou escomptées où vous faites un achat à partir d'eux - vous devrez cliqueter dessus la publicité ou appeler la compagnie cette publicité placée pour découvrir plus à son sujet.

Jason.

: What software do I need to simply burn instrumentals into a program and lay my original vocals over the top of them for demo purposes only? I already have the instrumental recordings on discs and I know a few programs that I can obtain them from. I was using some version of Cakewalk at a friends house, but I no longer have access to that computer.

<font color="#0000FF">: What software do I need to simply burn instrumentals into a program and lay my original vocals over the top of them for demo purposes only?</font>

It's a bit difficult to understand your question, for
example do you already have the instrumental recordings?

If so then all you need is a Multitrack recording
program. This type of software will let you record the
stereo instrumental music onto two tracks which you can
listen to as you record your vocals on a third track,
you can do much more than this - but this will get you
started.

If you're using Windows then a good free program to
start with is <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/DDClip_Free/">DDClip Free</a>

Or you can look through the list of other programs on
this site for Windows, Macintosh, Linux etc at
<a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/cat/MULTITRACK_RECORDING/">http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/cat/MULTITRACK_RECORDING/</a>

Right beside the form you typed your question into is
a bold line of text that says "<b>Read BEFORE repeating these questions...</b>"

The very first one at the top of the list is:
<a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/wwwboard/messages/81548.html">How to remove Vocals from songs leaving only Backing Music</a>

You will find the answer to your question there.

Jason.

: Drum Sounds & Samples
: If you are searching for some new sounds and the prices of the big cats scare you, then you're just like me. I've been sampling and producing for about 14 years now and just recently, I bought a bunch of samples that made me realize just how much stuff I already had. I went through disks and disks of stuff that I sampled from vinyl, synth sounds, sampled live and so on. If you wanna check out some cheaper, but still bangin' drum sounds for the Akai MPC, or even in WAV or AIFF format contact me at homershines@yahoo.com

: peace.

: homershines

Don't know what sound card you're using but I had a similar problem with an Audigy 2 card recently.

I was recording the "what you hear" output of the card whereas I needed to be recording the input itself instead.

By going into the mixer settings of the card itself, there is a record setting that was set to "what you hear" and I changed it to Mic/Line in and voila!, you're just recording just the input and not the output mixed with the input if you get me.

There's an amazing tutorial about the subject at Samplecity.com. Check it out.

http://www.samplecity.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18658

Peace and good luck.

homershines
for dope drum sounds & samples email me at:
homershines@yahoo.com

: Does anyone here use fruity loops? I find a lot of the kick drum samples a bit dull, the only way i've found of making them "beefier" is to clone the drum channels, or go to channel settings and increase the amplitude...neither really produce any satisfactory results, and the latter tends to distort. Any tips?

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: hello there
: i am just trying so hard to get the *ins file i just managed to get the one for the drums....
: can someone please help me if tehres is one such file...
: thank yo in addvance,
: mike wwwvlahopol.home.ro

Can you provide a little more information about what a
"ins" file is, like what software it works with and
what you use it for - then someone here might be able
to help.

Jason.