GoldWave Inc.

I'd guess your laptop has a low-quality soundchip (a low-quality analog-to-digital converter.) Normally, I would assume that the encoding (to the streamed-audio format) would be the weakest link. The analog-to-digital conversion should be the 2nd weakest link. The PCM (wave) encoding is almost perfe...

You can use Edit->Mix . But actually, I don't think that GoldWave is designed for real-time interactive multi-channel mixing. If you are going to do lots of this stuff, and more than a few instruments, you should robably look for something else. Sorry. I can't recommend another program, but that's n...

I wouldn't say you need headphones. Headphones do make it easy to hear background noise. And, a good pair of headphones is cheaper than a good set of speakers. If you are doing any processing or filtering... anything that changes the sound, you need a system that accurately reproduces the sound, and...

It depends on the speed of your CD drive. There is a speed setting Tools->CD Reader->Options.

I assume that you are "ripping" (digitally extracting the tracks) rather than making an analog copy.

I can't find anything that sounds like it is instructions for recording. OK, I'll try to get you started... Tool->Control . This will open the control window, which has Record, Play, Stop, Volume , etc. If you right-click the red record button, you will get some options. I usually set it to unbound...

Did you try Effect->Filter->Noise Reduction or Effect->Filter->Pop/Click ? You might also try some equalization... reducing the highest and lowest frequencies which are out of the voice range Effect->Filter->Equalizer . You can also use Effect->Volume->Shape to turn the volume all they way down when...

Here's a Web Site with lots of information & hints about recording & cleaning-up LPs. The author of that web site also wrote a program called Wave Repair specificially for removing vinyl record noise. It can replace a tick or pop with the just-preceeding or just-following sound. I had to man...

I think GoldWave converts everything to PCM format. But, wait for an answer from Chris (at GoldWave).

If Chris confirms that, take a look at mp3Surgeon.

Copy the mono files into a new blank stereo file...

Create a new blank stereo file.

Copy from the mono files and paste into the stereo file.

Before pasting, select a channel with Edit->Channel.

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Joysman, Both GoldWave and Pro Tools should be perfectly happy with any standard wave format. But, GoldWave is only stereo, and I assume that Pro Tools can handle mulit-channel wave files (5.1 surround, etc.). The only formats I've personally used with GoldWave are 44.1kHz 16 - bit (for CDs), and 48...

It depends on what the problem is. (A good recording should not need any processing.) You can sometimes increase intelligibility of speech by boosting the high frequencies. This helps the "T" and "S" sounds to stand-out. (Uhhhh... the English "T" & "S" sou...

As far as I know, GoldWave cannot open any multiplexed audio/video files. (Multiplexed formats have the audio & video combined in one file.) I use my video editing software, Ulead Video Studio , to extract the audio to a wave file. I have no idea why "what-you-hear" isn't working.... I...

There doesn't seem to be any way to do that. It seems like there should be a way to subtract the extracted (L-R) "vocals" from the left and right channels... But, I get a headache every time I try to figure it out... A L-R signal is in-phase with the left channel and out-of-phase with the...

:( Bummer. It it's a recording problem, I don't think you can fix that. If it's a playback problem, borrow a different cassette player. It's been a long time since I've done anything with cassettes, but I remember something... I remember bending-out the little (brass?) spring with the felt pad on it...