Re: FN-FORUM: Audio cassette to cd-rom?

date posted 25th August 2005 11:51

Andrew Larcombe wrote:
>
> Rob Hull wrote:
>> You'd be better off using something like Nero to burn the CD direct
>> from .wav files. Otherwise you are converting to MP3 then back to
>> WAV (which the format of Audio CD's) and loosing quality in the process.
>
>
> Remember, it's coming off of a casette tape in the first place which in
> turn is sub-mp3 quality, so you're not really loosing anything there...

No, the very fact that it is coming from a sub optimal source means
you should avoid *any* potential further loss of quality. You want to
do it in as few steps, with as little change of format - I've done
enough live mixing and recording of bands over many years to know ;-)

I'd bang it straight into SoundForge, but Audacity is probably as good
a free one as you'll find out there.

Paul.