Mitch Drumm
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Posted 25 Mar 2009 9:40 am |
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David Wright just posted a very rare recording of his father playing steel on "I Don't Love Nobody" with Jimmie Rivers and The Cherokees on youtube. It's from the late 1950s and you aren't likely to find it anywhere else.
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKG0oL8L3bg
I wanted to record it as I listened. I used to be able to do that with Windows XP, but I now have the dreaded Vista, along with a 3 or 4 year old Creative Labs sound card.
For anyone interested, here is how I did it:
Download and install the well known and free Audacity recorder application.
Go to Vista's sound control panel and look at the recording tab. You may not see a choice for "what you hear". If you right click on a blank spot in that tab, you can force Vista to show disabled or disconnected devices. When I did that, "what you hear" immediately popped up and I was able to enable my soundcard for that functionality with another click. It should say "working" when you enable it.
Locate David's youtube site or get your sound source ready to play. Check the playback volume and get it up a bit, probably most of the way up.
Start Audacity and go to Edit/Preferences. On the first tab (I/O), choose speakers as your playback device and what you hear as the recording device.
Hit the red record button near the top of the Audacity window.
Within a few seconds, get the sound started, whatever it is. The record volume meters at the upper right of Audacity should start to jump. If they aren't jumping to at least -12, restart and try to play back at a higher volume. You can watch the song progress in the lower part of the Audacity window.
When the song is done, hit the Audacity stop button (orangish yellow), next to pause.
With your mouse, select the big capital I in the upper left of Audacity. This is the selection tool. With a little experimentation with the mouse, you will then be able to select the first few blank seconds of the recording, before you got the music actually going. That portion will show as a nearly flat line in Audacity. After selecting it, hit the delete key to cut it out. You can do the same thing to cut any undesired portion at the end of the song.
Go to file/export as mp3 and save it to your hard drive. Or export as WAV if you want to burn it on a CD. That's it. You should be able to use this method to record anything you can hear if your soundcard supports it. |
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