Returning veteran speccy game converter, looking for some help making sound samples.
Lo folks, looking for abit of help.
Right, converted thousands of speccy games over in the past, before the advent of tzx. Not a great stretch to say a bloody huge chunk of the existing .sna, .z80, .tap are due to my painful efforts :) Some of the tzx as well, thou frankly those were direct ports of my basic TAPs.
Ahem, right, back on topic.
Had a go sampling direct to the PC, but the quality was terrible.
Now im not an expert at sampling so I could use some help.
1: Do you think I need a stand alone sound card? Or should the onboard one suffice? Its a brand new board.
2: Does it matter what im using to play the tapes? New tape player, but, bad results!
Oh..and the best suggested port to use, like I said, Ive had a go at this before, and was dissapointed, but I have a hell of the lot of games I would like to get into the public arena, so, yknow, help me, help the speccy scene!
Oh, I should be clear what i want to achieve here! A perfect sound file, that runs fine on its own, without having to filter it.
Right, converted thousands of speccy games over in the past, before the advent of tzx. Not a great stretch to say a bloody huge chunk of the existing .sna, .z80, .tap are due to my painful efforts :) Some of the tzx as well, thou frankly those were direct ports of my basic TAPs.
Ahem, right, back on topic.
Had a go sampling direct to the PC, but the quality was terrible.
Now im not an expert at sampling so I could use some help.
1: Do you think I need a stand alone sound card? Or should the onboard one suffice? Its a brand new board.
2: Does it matter what im using to play the tapes? New tape player, but, bad results!
Oh..and the best suggested port to use, like I said, Ive had a go at this before, and was dissapointed, but I have a hell of the lot of games I would like to get into the public arena, so, yknow, help me, help the speccy scene!
Oh, I should be clear what i want to achieve here! A perfect sound file, that runs fine on its own, without having to filter it.
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I suggest you PM Andrew Barker, he's considered the expert when it comes to transferring tapes to PC.
Good luck!
But hey, that CD didnt half get the ball rolling in the right direction :)
Have you tried Tony's Guide and Videos:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/TZXGuide.pdf
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/TZXGuide-lofi.zip
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/TZXGuide-hifi.zip
I use a WH Smiths tape deck, had an Alba R170 before that
with my PC and an external USB sound card (from ebuyer).
Seems to work fine.
What you have to watch out for is the Hard Hitting limit which seems to be -6db.
Anything above that will be clipped and it will effect your sample. Keep within -9db ~ -6db
If you examine the sample after recording, it should be nice and round, nice sine waves, sometimes digital filtering makes it like castle turrets.
Give it a whirl and share some samples if you want us to look into it further
Thanks for the info thou, that will help!