AV News 180 - May 2010
So, what is the answer?
Bite the bullet and go through ALL your old sound stock and log (or re-log)
the lot using real time as the datum.
Do a quality check. Scrap any pieces that are unacceptable by today's
standards.
Transfer to a modern format those bits that you think might again come in
useful.
Dump the rest.
One day, when I have time, I will follow my own good advice!
Historical footnote.
The earliest recording that I was involved in was, wait for it, on BBC wax disc!
The year was about 1950 and I was with a group of Scouts coming off Tryfan in
N.Wales. The interviewer was Raymond Baxter, no less, (he, later, of
Tomorrow's World) and he wanted our views on this mid-winter jaunt. The radio
car, with its equipment, could get no further than the road, so Baxter came to
meet us on the end of about 100 yards of lead. Pause after the interview for the
playback check. "Did you get it, chaps?" Thumbs up. "Jolly good show". I
wonder what happened to that disc?
Track Ripping Problem in Audition
H o w a rd G re g o ry
Track-ripping is normally the easiest and technically the best way, of getting
audio off a CD and into your computer. In the past there has been some
discussion about track-ripping in Adobe Audition. Whilst most people have no
problem, a few have indicated that they can't get it to work on their computers.
Maybe the following will help. I do most of my audio manipulation on an ancient
Windows 98 computer, running Audition 1.0. This is, by far, the most stable and
user-friendly computer I've ever used. I suspect this is because it has never been
on-line and never been updated. When we bought a new computer, running
Windows XP, I installed Audition 1.0 on that too and everything worked as
expected, for a couple of years.
Last autumn, by means never really explained, an "oops nasty" got into the XP
computer and we had to have the C drive wiped and a complete reinstallation
done. Back home I reloaded all the data from the backup hard drive (ALWAYS
back up!) and re-installed Photoshop, Audition, PTE etc. Some weeks later we
discovered that the track-rip function in Audition no longer worked. The hardware
hadn't changed, so it had to be a software clash due to a presumably newer
version of XP and/or CD drivers having been installed. We have now sorted this
out and everything appears to be a