[dc_j_ee]

dear friends,

I need advise on sorting out peripherals to buy for. My mom is participating in chorus classes, and presently, she uses a miniature tape recorder to record her performance, 10 year old Toshiba cassete deck to manually edit and to ditribute tapes for chorus members. The toshiba deck is kind of run-down, miniature tapes really don't produce quality recording, and I have an eMac. Which, she, having her 60th birthday in a couple of weeks time, a budget setup would be a pleasant/liven up creativity gift . I'm a downright amature in this field,, will really appreciate advise/suggestions from you well informed people. What she needs to do is;

- record chorus lessons(mid size hall) and performance(concert hall)
- edit the recordings(nothing too technical/may or may not use the mac)
- cd/cassete deck for listening(in her room)
- reproduce 10 to 20 copies for distribution(cdr in eMac but how trustworthy is the built-in audio in(capture encoder worth it?))

thanks to you all :-))

[jcarr]

Check out AudioCorder:

http://www.versiontracker.com/morein...417&db=mac

AudioCorder will let you bring in AIFF audio via the line in (or a USB audio capture device), and perform some basic edits (trim, etc.).

The line-in on any modern Mac will be more than adequate.

You can then bring the AIFFs into iTunes and burn them to a CD as-is (with no compression), or compress them to MP3.

Good luck!

[Ganesha]

1. The line in should be fine, but how are your getting the signal into the line in.

2. A common mistake, is to set the gain (aka input/record volume) too high or too low (usually its too high) when capturing.