Digital Sound - Recording Vol Control??

Digital Sound - Recording Vol Control??

[Hal MacArgle]

Greetings: All my life in the Sound Recording business, analog only,
retired 20 years, I've just started to learn digital sound..

So far I've been able to copy disks, tapes and LP's to files, then
burn CD's but it's been empirical as far as "setting" the proper
volume or recording gain..

Using Slackware 9.1, bare.i, kernel 2.4.22, all CLI; play; rec;
rexima, as the mixer, it's been trial and error, with the final
product satisfactory.. However, I miss the former familiar VI, VU,
Nixie, Oscilloscope, Dot/Bar Display, LED, LCD, etc volume
indicators..

I fetched the only sound package that mentions a VU meter, SLab, but
it's GUI and requires a Tcl/Tk package version I don't have yet.. It,
also, seems to be more powerful than I require..

I thought I'd query the list for some pointers for further learning
or, possibly, some valid suggestions... Is it possible the dynamic
range of digital is so wide that a "speedometer" is not needed?? From
the sound levels heard on present TV that might be the case. <grin>
-- 

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20-1)
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Re: Digital Sound - Recording Vol Control??

[Bill Davidsen]

Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Greetings: All my life in the Sound Recording business, analog only,
> retired 20 years, I've just started to learn digital sound..
> 
> So far I've been able to copy disks, tapes and LP's to files, then
> burn CD's but it's been empirical as far as "setting" the proper
> volume or recording gain..
> 
> Using Slackware 9.1, bare.i, kernel 2.4.22, all CLI; play; rec;
> rexima, as the mixer, it's been trial and error, with the final
> product satisfactory.. However, I miss the former familiar VI, VU,
> Nixie, Oscilloscope, Dot/Bar Display, LED, LCD, etc volume
> indicators..
> 
> I fetched the only sound package that mentions a VU meter, SLab, but
> it's GUI and requires a Tcl/Tk package version I don't have yet.. It,
> also, seems to be more powerful than I require..
> 
> I thought I'd query the list for some pointers for further learning
> or, possibly, some valid suggestions... Is it possible the dynamic
> range of digital is so wide that a "speedometer" is not needed?? From
> the sound levels heard on present TV that might be the case. <grin>

Have you looked at audacity? It will do many things which might give you 
the result you want.



-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979