The Suzi Arden Show

carole · Post by **carole** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:47 am

Peter: Sorry to hear about Francis Hall's death. Is John Hall his son?

carole · Post by **carole** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:50 am

Paul: I'm not planning on infringing upon any copyright laws, but can you tell me what kind of equipment I need to convert my audiotapes of Suzi to CD? I saw a software on eBay called Clean3, but don't understand how the tape machine would hook up to the computer.

carole · Post by **carole** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:53 am

Melissa,

Some things I can't talk about. Suzi's reasons for selling her guitar are personal.

carole · Post by **carole** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 9:09 am

Jerry: I am inclined to think as you do that Suzi's bass is the 4005 as pictured with her band, but I don't know that for a fact.

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 9:57 am

Carole: Yes John Hall is his son.

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 12:20 pm

Jerry: I'm afraid my son will not be getting a 325 until I get one for myself first (I'm dreaming of one with a 2:00 f-hole)! LOL!

kranz · Post by **kranz** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 10:29 pm

Live at the Mint Hotel in Las Vegas

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:39 am

Melissa: you and I must have attended the same school of parenting!

carole · Post by **carole** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 7:31 am

Jim: Do you have the album? Does she play the 12-string guitar on it?

kranz · Post by **kranz** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:37 am

Carole-

I don't have the album so I don't know if the RIC appears on it. I found the cover though, while rummaging around on the web. No indication of when the album was recorded. I may have located a copy for sale. Unfortunately, I retired my turntable quite some time ago.

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:46 am

Jerry: Actually, my son is still at the stage where he will just leave his guitar in the middle of the floor when he is done "practicing".....Needless to say, his guitar is not a very expensive one, but as he learns to take care of what he has and as he shows more interest in actually learning to play, we will upgrade him to something better. If he really gets serious, there just might be a Ric in his future someday! Right now he just likes to admire mine, as well as the pictures in the Rickenbacker books and on the Rickenbacker Registration page! His favorite guitar in my collection is my Midnight blue 330 with black pickguard, nameplate, and hardware--its pickups are a little hotter than my other Rics, and it's a rock-n-roll machine that sounds as wild as it looks. But the scary thing is, he also really likes the looks of those weirdo Gothic-looking guitars in the Musician's Friend catalogs (shudder!)....

paul_yan · Post by **paul_yan** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:22 pm

Carole,
Sorry for the hiatus. Just came back home from 2 days of mixing sessions.

Honestly, I don't know anything about these PC based computer softwares for transfering audio tapes and burning CDs except the "Toast" feature in the Protools harddisk recording system in my studio and which is quite popular in studios all over the world nowadays.

My studio has the HHB CD-R850 cd recorders which are hooked up like ordinary cassette decks.

They've got analog XLR (balanced) and RCA (unbalanced like the usual home hi-fi equipment), and digital AES/EBU (XLR connector), S/PIDIF (RCA connector using co-axial digital cable) and optical inputs which are selected via a rotary switch on the front panel. It lets you copy vinyl records, cassettes, DATs, CDs and output from the mixing console to blank CDs. A straightforward system like this avoids the "lifeliness and plasticity" that happen when audio has to be recorded into the computer first to be burned to CDs.

A software like Clean3 (I reckon) can let you do editing, spacing and even EQing and enhancing the audio before burning it onto a CD (provided your computer has a CD burner driver). I believe there are some members in this forum owning and using PC based CD burning softwares who can chime in on this subject.

I apologize that I can't give you more insights on the Clean3 software.

carole · Post by **carole** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 9:31 am

Paul: I went to Best Buy and bought a Sony TC-WE305 Stereo Cassette Deck and a TDK DA-5900 Digital Audio CD Recorder.

The Sony has cords that go from the Out Line to the In Line on the CD Recorder.

The problem I am experiencing is it looks like neither machine has any sound unless they are hooked up to amplifiers (that I don't have) and wouldn't know how to hook up anyway.

The CD Recorder dups the tape okay, but I have to turn up the sound on my player to the Max position in order to hear it.

Also, the CD Recorder doesn't register the tracks as it should, so Suzi's album, Live at the Mint, is all on the same track. Directions said I could push the Record button in Manual mode to change the track, but how can that be done when you can't hear it.

I think I'm going to haul it all back to Best Buy.

Re the machine you pictured, I only see one CD drive on it. (The one I bought has two.) Do you know if the sound can be heard on it while recording is in process?

carole · Post by **carole** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 9:40 am

Paul: By the way, the man selling Clean3 on eBay said I would need a suitable cable to plug into my sound card and that way (he said) I would be able to record on my computer. I don't think my computer has a sound card.

carole · Post by **carole** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:26 am

Paul: Me again. Got the sound fixed on the CD. I'm embarrassed to say the volume on my computer was set too low.