Need help with Goldwave/looking for mp3's

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kycoyote

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Hey guys, well with your help and prior knowledge I've assembled my mp3 e-caller, downloaded goldwave and a bunch of mp3s and went out calling today (no coyotes but did get 2 crows). Total cost:$200.00 (that's including the mp3 player). Not bad in my oppinion. I'm still looking for sounds on the web, downloaded some good ones as well as some duds, one thing I'm still looking for is bird distress sounds. If anybody could send me some or even a link where I could find some it would be greatly appreciated. I've already poured over western rivers and findsounds.com.
I'm also having trouble cleaning up tape sounds that I have recorded onto my PC. Yes, I've read the instructions for Goldwave but for the life of me I can't get the crackling and popping out of the tape recording without it either becoming too harsh a sound, too dull or ending up with some sort of mechanical chatter in the spots with no sound. If any Goldwave wizards out there could lend me some advice it'd be great. Thanks in advance for your help. Ted
 
I've got v4.25 of GoldWave (shareware), and it has a filter called Noise Gate--very useful for cleaning up background noise and hiss in the slilent parts of a track without stripping out the peak frequencies.

Others who downloaded later versions of GoldWave suggested the Noise Gate was nowhere to be found... which is why I stuck with v4.25. So, what's the last word on whether the Noise Gate Filter exists or not in the most recent version?

(BTW, while you could just manually go in to cut-and-paste silent pauses in between rabbit bleats, the NG filter is a big time saver.)

LionHo
 
I have downloaded sounds from Western Rivers on my comouter and they play and sound fine. My problem is that when I try to setup my burn list on Windows Media Player to copy to CD, each of the sounds are flagged "will not sync", and won't burn. I would apreciate any help......Thanks
 
OK, I've made alot of progress cleaning up these old tape sounds of mine. I figured out how to insert blank silence from a clean mp3, this helped the hissing since the real problem was when there was silence with just the tape running. another thing I did was turned my boom box down! That cleaned up a bunch of the hissing and chatter that I was getting so thanks for the help, I think I got it now. I'm up to about 80 sounds and I'm starting to mix them, that'll be my next post! Thanks, Ted
 
Smoke Pole, see what format your sounds are in. If they are in MP3 and you are trying to get them to burn on an older PC it may not want to burn them. Also if your player isn't any MP3 cd player it won't play them anyway. Do a save as and see if you can change the format to .wav, that should get it done for you. Or you could do what I did and throw the CD player away and get you an MP3 player, much better and easier to manipulate. Hope this helps. Ted
 
Originally posted by kycoyote:
[qb]Smoke Pole, see what format your sounds are in. If they are in MP3 and you are trying to get them to burn on an older PC it may not want to burn them. Also if your player isn't any MP3 cd player it won't play them anyway. Do a save as and see if you can change the format to .wav, that should get it done for you. Or you could do what I did and throw the CD player away and get you an MP3 player, much better and easier to manipulate. Hope this helps. Ted[/qb]
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Thanks for the reply kycoyote. The sounds are surmy player posed to be MP3 format and I know that will play that format also. For some reason when I try to put together the sound list for burning I get the message "will not sync". I think that I will take your advice and get a MP3 player. Do you have any recomendations on a brand? Thanks.
 
The one I got is made by Ilo, it's 256mb, has voice recording and an FM tuner. I got it at Wally world for $69.99 on sale but saw 2 on Ebay today for $40.00. It's pretty easy to use and the LCD is backlit which is helpful.
I've already got 30 sounds on mine, some I'm using right from the web and some I put together using little sound bites. Instead of making some massive 30 minute recordings from tape I'll take 2-3 minutes, clean it up, add 1 minute of silence at the end and use it like that in repeat mode. You can fit more on the player that way and it's easier to manipulate. Then you can pause, skip or go to the next track if you like.
I've got a few I made that I really like, 1 minute of woodpecker, 20 sec. silence, 30 sec of kitten squalls and 1 minute of woodpecker. Another just like that except with fox pup squalls, and another with adult cat squalls.
I've been testing the sounds out on my dachshund and he likes this one the best, about knocked the dang PC over trying to get the speaker. Shoot me any e-mail and I'll send you one to try out. Ted
 
Lion-Ho

Version 5.06 has:
" Noise Reduction

Noise reduction helps eliminate unwanted noise within a sound, such as a background hiss, a power hum, or random interference. It cannot be used to separate or remove complex sounds, such as vocals from music or coughing/laughing.

You are presented with a spectral analysis window, with a shape line, and several other controls. The X and Y coordinates are updated when you click-and-drag a shape point. The X coordinate is the frequency in Hertz and the Y coordinate is the magnitude in decibels. The time of the spectral analysis shown is given in the Time box. If you move the time scroll bar, located below the analysis window, the graph changes to show the spectral analysis of a different part of the sound.

Not sure if it the same filter but looks close. I've had mixed sucess with it
 
AEH,

GoldWave's Noise gate is different from Noise Reduction (first choice and right above Noise Reduction in the filters menu in v4.25) which I've also found to be a mixed bag. Noise Gate is a filter that simulates a device long used in the A/V industry. (What an analog noise gate does is establish a threshold of sound pressure required to pass the signal, say from a microphone, in order to reduce background noise.)

The Noise Gate in GoldWave also has an attack and release time. Once you get the hang of it, it's most excellent for cleaning up a low hum, rumble, or hiss in the portions of a predator-calling track that are supposed to be silent, without taking out the highs and lows (as I find Noise Reduction and EQ filters do). You can accomplish the same thing by cutting and pasting silences in, but golly what a PITA that becomes for a long track.

I run Noise Gate on just about everything. Bummer if this filter is missing in later versions.

LionHo
 
According to the Goldwave folks, in v5.08,
"Effects | Filter | Noise gate is now a preset under Effects | Compressor/Expander."

Preset? Maybe it works like it always did, but the adjustment of the threshold and attack and release had a big effect. I'm running Win98 on this machine, not supported under v5.08 so I'm gonna have to hand this off to someone else.

If anybody cares, GoldWave v4.26 is still available for download, (but wasn't compiled for WinXP, I gather. Works on Win2000 and Win98):
http://www.goldwave.com/release426.php#download

LionHo
 


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