On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:43:05 +0100 (CET) jdennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello, > > This is a question from someone who is interested in turning > primarily speech recordings from a minidisk into mp3s, and editing > them. In the editing I want do to simple things like fade, mix and > cross fade, but nothing like set up wah-wah filters or what not: > the recordings are interviews and some other "report-like" noises, > and not music. > > My two questions are: > > (i) is there a simple record meter, so that when i get handed > different MDs recorded in different ways, I can see what my mixer > settings should be real time? > > (ii) i presently use audacity for my editor, am happy with it (bar > its apparent inability to record mono mp3s at correct rate), but > thought as i was posting, to ask for other suggestions (ie am i > just happy in my ignorance :) ) Audacity is really good, if you mean 1.1x branch. But, oh god, I installed ReZound 0.7 yesterday... It has VU meters for both recording and playing and an EQ analyser as well. Give it a try! http://rezound.sourceforge.net/ -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: avp@xxxxxxxxxxxx