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| quote: | Originally posted by Mike_Foyle
sweet, i dont think i could ever to be bothered to do a 5 hour set.. fair play. lots of tunes in there that i havnt heard  .... and some nice classics! downloading now.
mike |
Nice one, thanks for getting it.
| quote: | Originally posted by ThaMaestro
thnx for the help mikey!
how does it work exactly? does sound forge (i have that program happily ) puts the sound into some format, which CDex then transports to mp3? i dont understand that quite. and do you have to (re-)configure your sound forge settings perhaps? is that easy?
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| quote: | Originally posted by justin
I'm interested to know how to set it up this way too. Is there a topic in the archive that clearly answers these questions?
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Once installed, it should automatically set itself up so that it can record whatever comes through your line in on your sound card. And to get the best sound quality, you will need to alter some settings, yes. I am feeling quite bored, so this is what you do:
Hit the record button.
This brings up the recording box, where you can set the sound levels (the green bars.)
Providing you've hooked everything up, if you stick a record on you will be able to see what levels these bars are at. Ideally you want it to be just clipping the VERY bottom of the red. Any more and you will get distortion. You can either turn up the master out on your mixer to change this, or you can change the recording volume on your sound card:
Control Panel -> Sounds & Audio Devices -> Volume Tab -> Advanced -> Options -> Properties -> Recording -> Ok
And then adjust the volume on the Line In.
After the sound levels are all good, just hit the record button on the same recording box (the red button, surprise surprise.) Once your done, and have pressed stop, the wav will be displayed on the screen. You can now do your editing, like clipping the beginning and the end - but most importantly to normalize your file which makes everything the max volume possible without distorting anything:
Process -> Normalize -> OK (Just use whatever default settings it gives.)
Then save your file. You have the option to save your file as an mp3 here if you want, but like I said, I prefer to use a seperate program for this as I am not all that convinced sound forge's is that good. So just save it as a WAV - this is the audio's raw format. The quality is immense, but obviously the file will be huge. So this is where CDex comes in. CDex will basically compress this raw audio into an mp3 format. Obviously the lower the bitrate you use, the more the quality will start to degrade.
Simple as that.
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