20.11.1983 - Brian May -London, UK (Capital radio) FLAC

Satriani wrote:

Just to keep you posted. I located the tape and attempted to transfer to the PC this morning. However, I'm having some technology issues - it keeps coming out in mono but I'm pretty sure I just need a different lead.

I would appreciate a little more help though. After doing a small trial run I got audio in wav format but I realised that I don't know what to do after that! Do I need to split the audio into tracks (as opposed to having side 1 and side 2 tracks only)? Should I perform noise reduction? How do I convert tracks to FLAC? Where/how do I upload the finished product?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well I can't really help you with the mono part, there are much more competent people for that here, but what do you mean with mono ? That you're recording it to one chanel or that both channels contain the same audio information ?

Splitting - I would recomend to split it correctly in any sound editor (e.g. Audacity or what are you using) to have each "song" in a separate wav file.
Noise reduction - only if you know EXACTLY what you're doing. If you haven't done it before, I would recomend to post an untouched version, and let somebody else to do it if necessary because an incorrectly done noise reduction can cause more damage then the noise itself.

The easiest way how to convert the finished wav files to FLAC is to download Trader Little Helper ( http://tlh.easytree.org/ ), go to the "Encode wav file(s)" card, click the "Add" button and add there all wav files in the correct order, chose "flac" in the pulldown menu, choose Level 8, check "Align on sector boundaries", "Test encoded files", "Create checksum file" and you can also check "Delete source files" if you want. Then just click "Encode" and that's it

After that I usually open the flac files in WinAmp 5, and tag them properly, but most people don't do that.

Then you can put the files to max. 100 MB archives (you can use e.g. the free 7-zip if you don't have anything else - http://www.7-zip.org/ ) and upload them to some file sharing server, like mediafire or rapidshare. Or of course you can start a torrent here

hi,

Here you'll find what you need to split.
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks

The best tool for converting wav in flac is Traders Little Helper: http://tlh.easytree.org/

And to share your work with the grateful (sigh) QZ community 2 choices: via torrent, you'll find a tutorial in a sticky thread on the announce forum or via a file hoster: Rapidshare/Mediafire for examples.

I hope I could help you!


Edit: too late;) but 2 minds are better than one!

Thanks for all the help and advice; I've really enjoyed learning new skills!

I've transfered the tape but would appreciate if someone could listen to part 1 for me before I upload the rest to check that it's all worked OK (it sounds a little distorted in places to me). If you think it could sound better then I'm only too pleased to give it another go.

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?swxssronjpl

Satriani wrote:

Thanks for all the help and advice; I've really enjoyed learning new skills!

I've transfered the tape but would appreciate if someone could listen to part 1 for me before I upload the rest to check that it's all worked OK (it sounds a little distorted in places to me). If you think it could sound better then I'm only too pleased to give it another go.

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?swxssronjpl

Have you done some hiss reduction on this ? Also you're right about the distortion, but it's not really bad. Overall it sounds good to me, can you post the rest please ?
Or what do other people think ?

I have done some hiss reduction - is this a bad idea; should I not do this? Should I post the untreated version?

Also, if you don't mind, I'd like to have another go at capturing the audio with less distortion before I post the rest. If I fail I'll post the rest later today.

Once again, thanks for your help and patience with my first attempt at all this.

Satriani wrote:

I have done some hiss reduction - is this a bad idea; should I not do this? Should I post the untreated version?

Also, if you don't mind, I'd like to have another go at capturing the audio with less distortion before I post the rest. If I fail I'll post the rest later today.

Once again, thanks for your help and patience with my first attempt at all this.

The hiss reduction caused a "damaged" sound parts in the loud areas (sorry, I don't know the correct word). But still, it's pretty good for your first transfer

OK I've transfered the cassette again using different software and I think the result is better - there's still a little distortion but I think it's the best I can make it without buying a better cassette player. (Also, I haven't done any hiss reduction). Anyway, let me know if it's OK.

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?gr4yafgulc6
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?l5hxe3vwqpn
Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?ahjairnghaw

By the way, do you think anyone would be interested in the Alexis Korner interview of Brian May for the 'Guitar Greats' series that was broadcast on radio 1 in summer 1983 (I think)?

Satriani wrote:

OK I've transfered the cassette again using different software and I think the result is better - there's still a little distortion but I think it's the best I can make it without buying a better cassette player. (Also, I haven't done any hiss reduction). Anyway, let me know if it's OK.

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?gr4yafgulc6
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?l5hxe3vwqpn
Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?ahjairnghaw

By the way, do you think anyone would be interested in the Alexis Korner interview of Brian May for the 'Guitar Greats' series that was broadcast on radio 1 in summer 1983 (I think)?

Thank you VERY much, I personally like it.
I have Brian's interview, I have uploaded a 5 min long sample here -
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bzukdo8vahc
- do you have a better copy ?

really nice job!
Thank you very much for this!

One small stupid question here, is this recording a FM broadcast or a Pre-FM version ?

Many thanks for the transfer and the share !

Regards,

Olivier,
Belgium.

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