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From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
Subject | Re: CD recorder |
Date | Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:37:56 -0400 |
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Yeah, what you get for that money is the equivalent to CoolEdit Pro, which
is a fully-functional 64-track digital recording program. (To give you an
idea, almost all of the Shins' OH INVERTED WORLD was recorded on a PC
running CoolEdit Pro.) It's way more than someone tidying up some old LPs
needs, which is why I didn't mention it.
S
At 01:26 PM 6/14/2004 -0400, Christopher wrote:
>As for CoolEdit 2000, it was apparently bought by Adobe and discontinued
>after a fashion. Technically, you can upgrade to the new product, Audition
>(version 1.5), for $169 if you had CoolEdit 2000 and for $69 if you had
>CoolEdit Pro; if you're buying for the first time, it's a pretty steep $299.
>For that money, you're getting a pretty full-blown audio editing package,
>certainly overkill for the kind of use we're talking about here. There are
>certainly cheaper options out there, but I personally can't speak to ease of
>use or functionality of any of them.
>
>Christopher
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
>> Of Stewart Mason
>> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:51 PM
>> To: audities@smoe.org
>> Subject: Re: CD recorder
>>
>> At 08:39 AM 6/14/2004 -0500, Sager, Greg wrote:
>> >Actually, I'm looking to buy the same piece of equipment. I wouldn't be
>> at
>> >all surprised if there are other Auditeers who have extensive vinyl and
>> >cassette collections who would also be interested in purchasing a CD
>> >recorder at some point. Since it's pretty commonplace to post
>> >equipment-related threads on this list, if someone would like to share
>> their
>> >expertise with all of us rather than just with Bill off-list, please do.
>>
>> Everyone I know who has a standalone CD recorder has complained about it
>> mightily. If your home computer is relatively up to speed -- say, at
>> least
>> a Pentium or equivalent chip, a decent sound card, a large hard disc and
>> at
>> least 256K of RAM -- then you won't have any trouble using it to transfer
>> vinyl and tapes.
>>
>> For myself, I just bought a Sony turntable with an internal preamp (about
>> $80) and plugged it into the LINE IN jack on my sound card, using a $3
>> adapter from Radio Shack that converts stereo RCA plugs to a 1/4-inch
>> headphone-style plug. I bought an old Pioneer cassette player from a
>> pawnshop for $25 for tape transfers. Unfortunately, my preferred
>> recording/editing/cleanup software, Cool Edit 2000, is no longer
>> available,
>> but there are plenty of other good ones out there. (I think SoundForge is
>> still around, and I know that recent versions of Cakewalk Pyro, which is a
>> pretty good CD burner application, have vinyl cleanup tools as well.) So
>> that's $108 for hardware, and I don't actually know how much the average
>> software package costs these days, but my Cool Edit plus the audio cleanup
>> plug-in cost a total of $118 and that was higher than most, so that's only
>> $226 starting from scratch. I'm pretty sure that's cheaper than a
>> standalone CD recorder.
>>
>> S
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