Gregory Sharp wrote: > Hi, I'm recording some of my cassettes and lp's and would like > advice for testing the recording quality. > > First, how would you recommend testing for proper gain? > I want to re-record if there is clipping. > hi, Gregory. What software are you recording with? I found audacity to be good for this job. You can record with a nice bit of headroom (peak-holding meters are provided), and then use the built-in 'amplify' effect to get maximum volume without clipping. > Second, sometimes there are skips or scratches or > computer-related glitches which can be fixed by re-recording. Gnome_wave_cleaner (GWC) is good at removing pops and crackles, processing the whole file in one go. Audacity has facilities for repairing localised glitches. > Especially I would like a method of recording twice, and > comparing the results to detect these problems. I don't know how you would do this. I wish I did! I recently had a session recording some vinyl LPs. Despite some serious head-scratching I could not think of a quick and easy, semi-automated method. I simply ran my recordings through GWC on a non-aggressive setting, listened to the results and ran GWC again or fixed them by hand. This took some time. I guess I can appreciate your motivation for posting :-) ... any one got any bright ideas? yours, G. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
