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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: XmasScotty on April 14, 2019, 0716 UTC

Title: New Production Computer
Post by: XmasScotty on April 14, 2019, 0716 UTC
Bought a new computer to make shows, skits, liners, etc. for my current Fm station and future AM project. Bigger, faster Win machine that'll never see the internet after I finish installing everything I need to. Used Cool Edit Pro before as my software of choice. No longer have it, looking for good production software with not much of a learning curve.  Your ideas, suggestions, etc.


Xmas
Title: Re: New Production Computer
Post by: JimIO on April 14, 2019, 1310 UTC
You should get lots of positive responses, but I can't think of one...    :)
Title: Re: New Production Computer
Post by: Andrew Yoder on April 15, 2019, 0056 UTC
I've been recording broadcasts off the radio for years & editing clips using Goldwave. I've never had a reason to consider switching
Title: Re: New Production Computer
Post by: redhat on April 16, 2019, 1729 UTC
The free choice is usually audacity, although it has some annoying quirks, and the audio quality usually suffers.  Mixdowns often have clipping in them, and a lot of strange things had to be done to dance around Adobe's patents.  A cracked version of CoolEdit or early Adobe Audition is probably where I would go.

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Title: Re: New Production Computer
Post by: Pigmeat on April 18, 2019, 1049 UTC
The free choice is usually audacity, although it has some annoying quirks, and the audio quality usually suffers.  Mixdowns often have clipping in them, and a lot of strange things had to be done to dance around Adobe's patents.  A cracked version of CoolEdit or early Adobe Audition is probably where I would go.

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Oddly, I have one of those cracked versions of "Cool Edit". It drifted down my chimney. It wasn't even Christmas.
Title: Re: New Production Computer
Post by: redhat on April 18, 2019, 1613 UTC
Funny how that works sometimes....

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Title: Re: New Production Computer. Editing? I use Audacity.
Post by: ThaDood on April 18, 2019, 1922 UTC
 The crew of Berkeley Liberation Radio got me into using Audacity years ago, and it works great for me. Even to add more pep into the audio, (Like into a 1/2-ass produced Amateur Radio Newsline.), I love the compression features as well. And it works superb on Linux formats as well, if not better.  https://www.audacityteam.org/about/features/editing/     Give it a try. It's free, pretty intuitive, and does not take up much hard drive space at all. The hardest part is the initial set-up to where you want everything to sound as an end product. Pretty gravy after that. I have it on all my computers with WIN XP, VISTA, WIN 8, Ubuntu 14.04, and Mac OS X10.