Lecture Recording

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Many of you know I went back to school and changing career fields.

So, I purchased from the Market TapeMachine and surprisingly it has the G-Nex working as good if not better than my digital voice recorder.

However, when I go to study and replay the lecture, I here the person next to me constantly switching from their pen to pencil while taking notes. Today I had the digital recorder by the professor. And my phone on my desk. I can still hear this person switching writing utensils. During one of the breaks I asked them to knock it off or put it on their notebook so it didn't cause a sound spike. (We sit at common tables facing the front. No individual desks). They didn't really cease their pencil/pen slam-switch. And it was pissing me off.

But at anyrate, the digital recorder I have doesn't have a USB slot to offload the file. I have my G-Nex set to record the best quality OGG file. And now I can offload the file to the computer to then edit the file.

Anyone know of any software (preferably free) that I can use to edit it? And by edit, I mean not only reducing the background noise, but editing out or reducing the sound spikes from my inconsiderate neighbor?

Any help would be awesome. And many thanks in advance. I also have Audacity. But it only reduces the constant background noise. Not the sudden sound spikes. I am also a relative Audacity-virgin.

--David


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[rayhodge02]

Can you put your phone closer to the professor

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Thanks, Ray. I could do that. I was just hoping not to - so that my phone doesn't "grow legs."

I thought there was software that is available to the public that can pinpoint a certain sound and filter it out. Maybe it's just available to certain entities - i.e. police etc.

TapeMachine has some editing functions. But I am unsure of the calibre it will work. And it has the ability to adjust the mic volume, gain, file read buffer, latency, engine sample rate (currently set at 48KHz (or 48,000Hz)), and choose which mic to use - front or back. The effects it lets you edit are fade in, fade out, normalize (from -5db to -1db), reverse, and gain (from 0.3x to 3.0x (different from the mic gain.)

Maybe I will play around with some of these settings and see what comes of it. I don't know much yet about all these options yet. But I will be playing with some of these options before the next lecture.

Do you or anyone else have any experience with sound editing or does it for a living? Any ideas/pointers on settings I should have set for optimal sound and (hopefully) minimize the sound spikes?

Also, which is the front mic on here and which is the back? Is the front mic the one at the bottome by the charger? And the back mic the one at the top of the battery cover? I'm just trying to find the optimal mic. I noticed it was set to tbe back mic. And I switched it when I got home today. And I copied the lecture recordings so I will also play around with the file editing. I'm almost about to disappear the person's pen and force them to use just their pencil until they get home. Lol!


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( "King of the Self-Edit'" )

Irony. Its what's for dinner.