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Subject:recording
Posted by: bru
Date:10/19/2000 9:23:00 AM

Hi , i just bought soundforge and i was trying to hookup my
external mixer (w/turntables) thru my soundcard (line in)
in order to record a mix and save it as a wav file so later
i could transfer the mix to a cd, so far everything is
working ok , i can record and save the file but i was
wondering if theres special settings in order to achive
better sound quality? any help would be greatly appreciated
:)




Subject:Re: recording
Reply by: Ted_H
Date:10/19/2000 12:37:00 PM

Hello,

Make sure that you are recording at 16-bit and not 8-bit. The
recording attributes are listed at the top of the record window, and
they can be modified by clicking on the "New" button, which is just
to the right of the attributes. Hope this helps.

Ted


bru wrote:
>>Hi , i just bought soundforge and i was trying to hookup my
>>external mixer (w/turntables) thru my soundcard (line in)
>>in order to record a mix and save it as a wav file so later
>>i could transfer the mix to a cd, so far everything is
>>working ok , i can record and save the file but i was
>>wondering if theres special settings in order to achive
>>better sound quality? any help would be greatly appreciated
>>:)
>>
>>
>>
>>

Subject:Re: recording
Reply by: Rednroll
Date:10/19/2000 1:27:00 PM

You also want to make sure you're input record levels are set
optimally so you don't get excessive noise from your sound card. Go
to the windows mixer section and make sure your Line level input is
set to maximum...or wherever 0dB is on that thing. Then you just
need to get the best level signal coming from your mixer,to your
sound card without going over 0dB in Sound Forge's Record window.

Oh, by the way Ted this reminds me for the next update for
soundforge, there should be a mixer section which allows you to
control the input and output levels right from sound forge, instead
of having to goto the windows control panel.

Ted Hoch wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Make sure that you are recording at 16-bit and not 8-bit. The
>>recording attributes are listed at the top of the record window,
and
>>they can be modified by clicking on the "New" button, which is just
>>to the right of the attributes. Hope this helps.
>>
>>Ted
>>
>>
>>bru wrote:
>>>>Hi , i just bought soundforge and i was trying to hookup my
>>>>external mixer (w/turntables) thru my soundcard (line in)
>>>>in order to record a mix and save it as a wav file so later
>>>>i could transfer the mix to a cd, so far everything is
>>>>working ok , i can record and save the file but i was
>>>>wondering if theres special settings in order to achive
>>>>better sound quality? any help would be greatly appreciated
>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

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