Category: Geeks r Us
Hi all,
do any of you use, or ever heard of wave pad? I wanted to get some of my karaoke songs on my computer somehow, but i didn't want to use goldwave, since that seems too professional for me, and i didn't feel the need to spend 45 dollars, and, I have a 512 mb hard drive, not a 1 gb drive, so wasafraid it would upset my hard drive and it would grind too much. Anyway, a woman in germany mentioned it to me, and someone else suggested it when i said gold wave was a little too professional to me. I downloadedit, and it has 8 recording modes, but i had to use microphone for it to work. I tried stereo, but it picked up jaws very loud, almost to the point of distortion, but not my recording. What i have to do is, start recording from the microphone and just pres the play button on my aph recorder. I can't hook it up to the line in jack on the back, because it's almost impossible to reach, and there are so many things plugged up back there, when you hook something up, you risk jarring or pulling something else loose. So I got 2 of my karaoke songs on th ehard drive, and they might not be as good as some things that are already on the computer, or as good as if i'd hooked the tape player up to the computer, it's doable, and they are on my computer. I unfortunately got a little more of jaws on one of my recordings than i wanted to, because I have to tab around to choose recording modes and read things on the screen. I tried editing it out by pressing the left arrow key to rewiind and pressing control x, but that took out my whole song, so all there was was silence.I thought maybe i'd lost the song, but when i started to close wave pad, i was asked if i wanted to sav it, so I chose yes. When i saved it, there was still no audio there only silence, so i concluded i wiped out my whole song instead of jaws. I'm totally new to editing out sounds, and it feels rather strange, but a good thing to be able to do, unfortunately, I'm making a mess of it at the moment. I tried to delete the file from wave pad but the delete option is unavailable. when you create a file with wavepad, it saves a copy under the file menu, and when you landon it, it will give the full path of where the file is stored. Iwas able to delete the recording i had done from my hard drive, but when i entered on it from wave pad, I get the music and a dialogue box telling me, windows can't find thefile, make sure it exists, and that i have read nly rights. I ut it in the recycle bin, so I thought, maybe if i restore the song back, I can enter on it in wave pad, and delete it then, but no luck, it still shos delete unavailable in wave pads' edit menu, even undo doesn't help. Maybe there is something i'm overlooking, but it looks as though the delete option is available until you save it, but after that, it seems that it can't be deleted, or at least i haven't found a way to delete it. I even tried doing the song over so it would replace it, and it still doesn't work. I was able to play the second recording i did of the same song on my hard drive in winamp, but when i go to wave pad and try to play it, still nothing but silence. I've tried also control a to select the whole file before deleting it, but no go. I think it's a fairly ni ce program for recording if you can get the hang of it. You can even do your own podcasts from scratch, or so the help file says, but I'm not in to doing one myself, mostly because i d on't have anything to do a podcast about, and not sure i could do one. So, I'd be interested to know if anyone has used this program, and if so, have you had any succcess with it, and what you think of it. You have to read the help files mostly with the jaws cursor. Itr supports 1i6 file types, including wave, ogg, and i thinki windows media though not absolutely certain. It will go as low as 8 bit rate, and as high as 320 bit rate, but i left it on the default of 128 kbps bit rate because i don't have much experience with bit rates, well none at all to be exact. So there yoiu have it. There's my experience with it thus far, hope others have more luck with it, not that i'm ready to dump it just yet, after all, I did get 2 of my songs on it. So good luck, and all you audio geeks have fun with it.
wonderwoman
Hi Wonderwoman.
I downloaded wavepad but didn't play with it enough since i am using another sound editor which is not free.
So i can't answer your question of how to edit jaws out but i can tell you about the list of files in the file menu.
This list is only a history of the files you visited recently. As you use more and more files this list will be updated so don't worry about deleting files from there.
If you want to make sure something is deleted use my computer or windows explorer to find it.
Recording things with the microphone from a tape player is not a very good way of recording. The sound as you said is not as good.
If you can't reach the back of your computer for the line in maybe the best thing to do is to get a small USB soundcard. They are pritty cheep like 20 dollars or something.
But if you want to use the microphone maybe you can use headphones during the recording so jaws wouldn't be in the recording.
Good luck.
ok, I'll try the headphones next time and see if that works, thanks
wonderwoman