Sound quality

Audio CDs are known to have a perfect sound quality. What actually is meant, is that a CD recording almost perfectly reproduces reality.

When you digitize an LP or music cassette, the clicks and noise are digitized as well, for they are part of the sound that is produced. Using the filters in the Audio Recorder you can enhance the sound quality and make the presence of noise or clicks sound less disturbing.

Because you will listen to a CD recording of your music cassettes and LP’s for a long time to come, you have to pay special attention to the following issues when digitizing:

• Always make use of the best playback equipment you have.
  It is highly recommended to tear apart your living room audio set and to drag that perfect cassette player to your computer.
  
  
• If you are going to digitize recordings from a music cassette, then set your cassette player tape switch to the right type (Normal, Chrome, Metal, etc).
  Also verify that you playback with the same noise reduction system (Dolby B or C for example), that was used to make the cassette recording.
  
  
• LP’s must be cleaned and dusted well and preferably you must use a new pick-up needle. This reduces the chance for clicks and noise that will be difficult to filter out later.
  
  
• While digitizing, pay attention to the recording volume level in the Audio Recorder.
  A recording volume that is too high will distort the sound. See also: Setting the volume.
  
  
• Make sure you select the Compact Disc stereo CD quality (Mp3 format & Wav format) or 128kbps,  44100hz, Stereo quality (Wma format) in the Audio Recorder "Settings-Output Format Settings" window if you want to create standard audio Compact Discs.
  It is also recommended to always save recordings on disk as uncompressed WAV files, especially if you are going to burn audio CD’s that need to play back on a regular audio CD player.