Gold Wave Versus Sound Forge

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 15-Jan-2009 5:39:30

Hellow,
I've bought Sound Forge a while ago and got the demonstration of Gold Wave from the internet. What are the differences as I haven't played around with gold wave much and which do people think is better?

Post 2 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Monday, 19-Jan-2009 10:30:50

You also might want to consider giving audacity a look. I use it on the PC and Mac and it's quite accessible.

Post 3 by buster gonad (Account disabled) on Monday, 19-Jan-2009 12:36:03

agreed woof! also if you are a compatent jaws user cool edit can be used!
sound forge is better for multi track editing to answer your original question. how ever gold wave is very good for editing interviews or music snaps. so it depends what your really trying to accomplish!

Post 4 by BigDogDaddy (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Monday, 19-Jan-2009 13:30:03

I've not looked at SF in a few years, but i'd like to do a little multi track editing. Nothing expansive but I'd like to maybe lay down a guitar and bass and perhaps vocals. I'm aware of Sonar and the scripts written but wondering if there is something out there that will work to do the basics! I'd prefer somethingas simple as possible for the couple of projects I need to do.

Post 5 by buster gonad (Account disabled) on Monday, 19-Jan-2009 20:00:48

cool edit then! i have done a few things on there including radio jingles and sweepers.. i think its good for what it does and you can pan in it also if you need to

Post 6 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Tuesday, 20-Jan-2009 0:49:06

This, like all other topics of the sort, depends on what exactly what you want to do. I found SF to be much more intuative than goldwave with the standard keyboard commands for windows being used to paste, copy, select audio, etc. The left and right brackets are ok once you get used to them, but I still prefer being able to use the standard windows commands. The other thing you have to remember is that Goldwave is much cheeper than SF, so, consiquently, some of the more advanced features are missing from it. I run goldwave, sf, and adobe edit here due to the complex nature of the sound production I used to do.

Post 7 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 20-Jan-2009 17:18:50

How about recording something like a radio show or recording something from youtube? I've got audacity on here as well, but not very good at editing with it. Does anyone know how to get rid of the gaps?