dazza14 Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 my band played a support slot a few weeks ago and the sound man recorded the whole set onto a memory stick in a 43min WAV file. I would like to cut down the file into the individual songs but have no way of doing this. Is there a piece of software I can download or is there something easy on Windows Media Player or similar that I just haven't worked out yet? All help... um, helpful. Dazza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 You should be able to download Audacity for free - that should be able to cope with such a huge .wav file, and it will show you the waveform so you can see where the songs begin and end. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roceci Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 +1 for Audacity, free & really simple to use. Output each song to MP3 & you're golden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Is it a multitrack wav? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza14 Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 [quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1502210399' post='3350026'] Is it a multitrack wav? [/quote] I don't think so, I think it's just one big chunk of data. I'll give Audacity a download and look into it further. Thank you for the advice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 [quote name='dazza14' timestamp='1502352770' post='3350806'] I don't think so, I think it's just one big chunk of data. I'll give Audacity a download and look into it further. Thank you for the advice [/quote] It's more than likely a stereo file. Audacity is easy enough to use for splitting it up. Once done, it might be a Good Idea to 'normalise' each of the chunks so that they all have a relatively even level..? Depending on the sonic result, mastering may be of benefit, too. Just for the anecdote, we had a desk recording of one of our concerts; there had been an error in the connections, making the whole thing sound muddy. One pass of a mastering tool brought it all up to very acceptable quality. Just sayin'. If you have any difficulties with anything, there are many here that can either offer guidance or do the job for you, given the file. Good luck with it; we'd like to hear a bit of it, if it's at all palatable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazy Bass Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 +1 for Audacity, I've used it for exactly that many times. Make sure you save a copy of the original file first though before you start hacking it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 If you are going to normalise it, do it before you split it into individual songs or you will loose the relative volumes of quiet songs vs loud ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza14 Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 Having heard the full file again the sound levels are consistant, but I'll look at 'normalising' it before I split them. Had a quick go at splitting them and it's not jumping out at me how to do it but hopefully I'll get time over the weekend to look at it more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 [quote name='dazza14' timestamp='1502378538' post='3351087']...it's not jumping out at me how to do it... [/quote] Here's a short video tutorial; there are many others on t'tube... http://youtu.be/72ewbraagj8 Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza14 Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 COOL! Thank you sir, I'll give it a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza14 Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 DONE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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