Help a rookie learning to work with digital sound; 2 questions -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:Help a rookie learning to work with digital sound; 2 questions Posted by: coach5111 Date:1/5/2001 9:09:00 PM My sound card is the Soundblaster Live MP3+ Question 1. Why is there such a vast difference between the level of sound being input to the level of sound when you play the file. File is much lower. Question 2. I captured a file and saved it in sonic foundry. I used the default WAV setting. Then when I went to put it on a CD my burner software picked up all of the wave and mp3 files in the folder as choices to put on the CD except the one I made in sonic foundry. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Subject:Re: Help a rookie learning to work with digital sound; 2 questions Reply by: DrummerAtLarge Date:1/10/2001 10:34:00 AM >>Question 1. Why is there such a vast difference between the >>level of sound being input to the level of sound when you >>play the file. File is much lower. Check your Soundblaster mixer. You should have a little speaker in your SysTray (lower right corner where the clock is on your task bar). Double-click that speaker, and check the volume levels. The one that's titled "Wave" will be for your MP3 and WAV files. There is also a master volume all the way to the left. >>Question 2. I captured a file and saved it in sonic >>foundry. I used the default WAV setting. Then when I went >>to put it on a CD my burner software picked up all of the >>wave and mp3 files in the folder as choices to put on the >>CD except the one I made in sonic foundry. Any suggestions? I assume you have a latest version of burning software (probably Adaptec EZ CD Creator) that allows you to burn WAV files as well as MP3's to CD audio. If that's the case, then here's my suggestion: Your burner software probably will not record a WAV or MP3 file (in CD audio format) unless it is recorded at 44KHz and 16-bit stereo. So check that in the recording settings in Sound Forge.

>>Question 1. Why is there such a vast difference between
the
>>level of sound being input to the level of sound when you
>>play the file. File is much lower.

Check your Soundblaster mixer. You should have a little
speaker in your SysTray (lower right corner where the clock
is on your task bar). Double-click that speaker, and check
the volume levels. The one that's titled "Wave" will be for
your MP3 and WAV files. There is also a master volume all
the way to the left.

>>Question 2. I captured a file and saved it in sonic
>>foundry. I used the default WAV setting. Then when I went
>>to put it on a CD my burner software picked up all of the
>>wave and mp3 files in the folder as choices to put on the
>>CD except the one I made in sonic foundry. Any
suggestions?

I assume you have a latest version of burning software
(probably Adaptec EZ CD Creator) that allows you to burn
WAV files as well as MP3's to CD audio. If that's the case,
then here's my suggestion:

Your burner software probably will not record a WAV or MP3
file (in CD audio format) unless it is recorded at 44KHz
and 16-bit stereo. So check that in the recording settings
in Sound Forge.