I've used ClickRepair for about 20 years, it's solid but it's not cheap. This method preserves the track gaps as cut to the vinyl. But simple trimming by deletion works fine.Ĭreating each individual track file done by highlighting from the end of the track and dragging to the beginning for the file. I think you can taper the file, and I might have messed with this for a while. You don't encode until after the edits are done. As far as the file you need to use, it's always the waveform file. You just highlight what you want deleted then delete it. Is there some other free audio editing software I should consider too? (Windows 10)Īudacity is fine to trim either the lead-in or the lead out. Any comments on that would be appreciated. However, it's been so many years since I last used it, and it's not installed on my current computer, I probably have no good reason to need to continue using it.ĭoes Sound Forge (I'd only buy the regular, not the Pro version) have any particular advantage over something like Audacity?Īudacity is apparently free but I have never used it, so I don't know if it's *really* free or includes various ads, spyware, etc as the price for being free. So I see Sound Forge is still around, now owned by Magix, and there's a regular and a pro version. In SoundForge, doing that was a subset of the above capabilities, and I'm guessing that's the case for any other audio editing software?Īlso note, I do want to keep archival wav versions of all these files in case I want to reload onto the Tascam (it only accepts wav files), but for my digital music system I'll be converting all these wav files to FLAC (using dBPoweramp or whatever). So at this point (after saving the wav file post-trimming) I would have edited wav files representing each digitized album side, with properly trimmed and faded start and end, but all the rest of the wav file is unaltered.Įventually I'd also like to split out each individual song from the album side via software, with a similar fade in/out applied to each one, and create separate wav files for each song. Is this a pretty standard capability in any audio software, all done essentially the same way? Then it had a gain overlay, generally at 100% during the music portion, and you could manually adjust the taper in/out duration from 0 to 100% or 100 to 0%, to accomplish fade in or out. In SoundForge, the way this was done is you first bring up the wav file, then you can expand the time scale so you can visually see/pick/hear where the actual music content begins or ends. It's hit or miss when digitizing vinyl, when you hit the record button, versus where the needle lands in the lead-in groove sometimes 10 seconds of silence)Ģ) Trim the lead-out of each wav file (representing a full album side) so it fades out from the end of the last song on the LP side, to silence. What I need audio software for is taking vinyl LP's that I've digitized using a Tascam DV-RA1000HD, mostly at 88KHz/24 bit (full LP sides as one contiguous wav file (I have no choice in wav file as output)), and doing a couple things: (Note: I think the wav files the Tascam creates are actually bwf files, but that doesn't affect the ability to read or play them as standard wav files)ġ) Trim the lead-in of each wav file (representing a full album side) so it fades in from silence to full gain fairly immediately before any musical content starts. However, it's not installed on any of my currently-functioning computers. Many years ago I used to use (Sonic Foundry, then Sony) SoundForge software for audio editing.
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