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Hi!!!
I’m so excited about your site and the issues that you are/will be tackling!!!
I have been recording my parents onto a digital voice recorder but have tons of questions about the quality of that recorder and what to do with the files - I’ld love to do some editing and to add some music on another track.
Any ideas?
Look forward to future additions.
Michaela
What kind of digital voice recorder?
And how’s it been, recording your parents? What’s the experience been like?
Yes, I have ideas about what to do with the recording. First off is to convert it (if necessary, which, for digital voice recorders it probably is) to an uncompressed format, and, at the very least, create an audio CD of it.
i have been looking for an simple expalnation about what is a analog signal and why do you have to convert it into a digital signal? when they do the same job. Your article has helped me immensely.
Thanks a lot
Ms. Kitchens, You’ve got yourself a new gal fan here! Not to get off your subject, but I wanted to let you know what drew me here. And that was the little tid bit you posted on the Scobleizer Blogger about a memory with your mom. What a heart warming and endearing tale it was. Gave me the biggest smile, and filled my eyes with the cheerful sort of tears. I read it over twice. Just so cute, and wonderfully told, that I had to get over to ya and tell you for myself! And I am glad I did. Because there is ever more great reading here! One heck of a noodle up there in that Kitchen! All by accident, you got me hooked now! Take care. - Rene’e
Thanks, Renée, for coming by and commenting.. and all the more for telling me why. That’s incredibly important. Stories have power ... I’m starting to cotton on to that fact. It’s what got me into family history. I don’t have kids, so it’s not a “pass on to the next generation” kind of thing for me, as I imagine it is for others. It’s the stories: Where do I come from? What happened? And there’s a variation, too—What the hell happened? Who are these people and what did they do? What were their challenges? How did they get through them?
But for a web site getting off the ground, I’m focusing on stories. Because boy oh boy (or girl oh girl) are they ever compelling….
The timing of your comment is especially wonderful: I just now finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. Which is about how movements—fads—epidemics get started. Gladwell discusses What sets them off. Your timing, Renée, is impeccable. How did you know? You’re a genius! :D
What sort of equipment are you using for transferring analog recordings to the computer? I bought something that was supposed to do that… but I don’t get the squiggly lines.
I also have some interviews on reel to reel tapes…can they be transferred in the same way (assuming that I can find a reel-to-rell recorder that works)?
I’ve tried to interview the oldest person at any family get-together, so I have a variety of stories. Many are the same story - but from differing viewpoints. My 93-year-old mother is always ready to tell some more, so I’d like to be more efficient with the process.
Betty Jo, thanks for stopping by. When I do analog conversions, I connect the audio device to the computer using a stereo-mini to stereo-mini plug—one end goes into the headphone jack of the device (the recorder) and the other goes into the Line In port of the computer.
(I totally want to write about this in more detail on the site. My perpetually coming soon section, entitled “How To,” is wanting some love and attention in a big way)
If you’re connecting from a stereo system or a stereo-system component, then you probably need to have an RCA stereo to stereo miniplug connector cord. (RCA stereo is that double-headed set of plugs, one of which is usually colored red)
For software, I use Audacity. The lack of “squiggly” lines means that the signal isn’t strong enough… which may be for a variety of reasons:
The recording was too soft to begin with (you can amplify the signal using software)
If you’re working with a portable recorder, you can adjust the playback volume.
Again, I want to write about all of this in more detail here. And even provide a demonstration movie where you can watch how it’s done.
The explanations are all on target-“Bull’s eye” except for this.
1)From microphone output the electric signal,(I presume) travels to the Next Electric component say, a particular IC or transistor or for that matter some diode or triode of solid state grid comprising several of these triode/diodes. 2)Am I right so far? Because this diode/triode business is my supposition.
3)Then the signal output from this particular IC happens only when “switched” -Right?
4)I am totally hazy from this stage of signal processing.
So pl reply to help me understand