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Hey guys,

I'm Loving Har-Bal - thanks for a great product

Today I received AIFF versions of my original unmastered masters.

They were dumped from 1/2 inch tape into 24 bit at 88.2 k

When I upload a track into Har-Bal, it masters it beautifully, however, when I save it, it saves it as AIFF, and I need to save it as a WAV to dump onto CD to listen to it in the car etc. for reference.

It says that it saves it as a PCM Wave File, but then it comes out as an AIFF

Excuse my ignorance about this - I am not new to the recording world, but the mastering process is something entirely new.

Hope all is well and look forward to hearing from you soon,

S

Shad

I tried to call you at the number you left and it went to voicemail.

When you press the "record" button a new window appears. At this point you have a choice of the type of file you want to output. Click on the down arrow and choose. (PCM Wave) and it will output a .wav file.

Here is what is happening. When it outputs the file it automatically outputs the aif file as yoursong_eq.aif.

So (erase the default file name) and simply rename it after you have chosen (PCM Wave) and it will output a wav file.
In other words if you feed in an aiff file named test and eq it. When you press the record button it will attempt to output a file named (test_eq.aiff)

Solution:

1. Erase the filename
2. Choose PCM Wav from the drop down list.
3. Rename the file without an extension
4 Click ok

Wave file will successfully be outputted.

I just tried it and the test was successful

Cheers

Earle

As Earle pointed out you can change the file type written to by selecting the desired file type in the Save As dialog when you press the record button. The only other thing is that if the original filename has an aiff extension then when you select a different file type the file name is not automatically updated and will have the aiff extension even though it will be written as a wav (or whatever format you chose) file. You'll need to change the filename manually.

Paavo.

Thanks for the immediate response guys,

Yes, I got it to work.

And Earle, thanks for trying to reach me on the phone as well -

I am blown away at the level of customer service

Har-Bal= Class act!

Warmest,

s

I assume the reason that the music is playing 1/2 speed is becuase of the 88.2k rate - correct me if I'm wrong on that.


When I save the track as a WAV after mastering with Har-Bal, The WAV also playa at half speed.

IS there a way to correct this?

P.S. I also received an error message when trying to burn to CD - is that also becuase of the 88.2k?

thanks again

s

Yes, CDA is 44.1kHz only and most CD burner software will not do a sample rate conversion for you. Actually, I'm a bit surprised the software actually accepted 88.2kHz tracks! You'll need to downsample the tracks before you burn your CD.

Regards,


Paavo.

If you could, please lend me your best advice on downsampling from 88.2k to 44.1k - How to do!

I have never needed to do this before - previously I was always mastering my tracks from 44.1 WAVS-

This will help me greatly

In the past, I have had some of the best mastering houses and engineers in the business master my albums. The amazing thing is that when I went back and re-mastered those same recordings with Har-Bal, it came out better. Some of those albums cost upwards of $8000-$10,000 to master. The Majors just LOVE to spend money they don't have!

s

s,

Most sound file editor applications can do quality sample rate conversion. For example I have Adobe Audition that will do this. If you don't have this or any other editors you may be able to find shareware software that will do this conversion. Windows ACM (audio compression manager) does sample rate conversion though by the look of it they only have a CODEC to convert sampling rates up to 48kHz only.

Regards,


Paavo.

Shad

Which software are you currently using do perform your sound editing?

Earle

Hey Earle,

Sorry for the delay in responding - last time you guys helped me out, within a few hours I was on a plane for NY and I just arrived back

I was using Vegas for awhile, but I'm sad to say that I have been using Easy CD creator

I just downloaded the trial version of Adobe Audition - Paavo mentioned that he was using that so I've been giving that a try and it seems to have a lot of great features.

I will be posting on these boards more often since I am leaning more towards doing ALL my own mastering - the results with Har-Bal are just too damn good to not do it myself.

I am opening a large short run CD-R and DVD-R run business in Hollywood this month and will be telling many of our clients about Har-Bal.

I was just at Clearlake Audio in North Hollywood and was telling the Chief engineer there about Har-Bal - ONLY one problem - they're Mac based.

s

BabyP wrote:...I just downloaded the trial version of Adobe Audition - Paavo mentioned that he was using that so I've been giving that a try and it seems to have a lot of great features.

It's not bad but if you need good sequencing support you wouldn't want to buy it. Also, if you are after an inexpensive but good quality option you could always try n-track strudio ( http://www.n-track.com ). One day I might invest in some a little more powerful like Neundo but given my uses at the moment it isn't justified.

Regards,


Paavo.