Newsgroups: rec.audio.tech
Subject: Re: VOICE RECORDING
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[email protected] (bob) writes:

> I have a microphone and wish to record my voice. Then I want to burn
> my voice onto a cd. How do I do all of this. Please use simple
> language as I am a beginner.

If you want to record your speaking/singing voice and the absolutely
best sound quality is not that important (getting higher quality
than I describe is more complicated).

Prequisities needed to do this thing with computer:
- a PC with sound card or sound capabilities built-in
- a microphone compatible with the soundcard microphone input
- operating system with suitable software to do sound recording
  (in this example Windoes 95, 97, NT 4.0 or 2000 is expected,
   also possible with Linux but with different tools)
- CD-ROM burner drive with burning software that can make audio CDs

Here is now you do this:
1. Connect the microphone to soundcard microphone input
2. Test that microphone works
3. Select with the sound mixer in Windows (starts with double-clicking
   speaker symbol on the bottom righ of screen by default) the microphone
   to be the sound recording source. Adjust the recording level to  
   center position.
4. Start Sound Recorder software and set it to record for the desired
   length at 44.1 kHz sample rate with 16 bit resolution and stereo 
   (for compatibility with the audio CD format)
5. Make a test recording that you see that the sound does not be
   too loud (clips) or too faint. Look the waveform on the screen
   and listen to the recorded voice. 
7. Turn off the volume on your multimedia speakers
6. Do the final recording the the settings you just set to optimum
   on the step 5. 
8. Turn multimedia speaker back on and listen what you got recorded.
   If it does not sound good reposition microphone and start again
   from step 5. 
9. Save the recorded audio as .WAV file to hard disk.
10. Do steps 5-9 gaian with differen file nasmes if you eant mode than
    one sound clip on your CD.
11. Close audio recording application.
12. Start CD-ROM burining application and select to make an audio CD.
13. Select in that burning program the .WAV file you want to be in
    your CD.
14. Insert a blank CD-R to your CD-ROM burner.
15. Start burning the CD.
16. Wait when the CD is burned.

Now you have a CD with your sounds in it.
You can take it and play it with computer or normal CD player.


This was the process with a computer using Windows,
With other operating systems the process is practically the
same, the names of software and some controls are somewhat
different.


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