User manual TERRATEC PHONOPREAMP STUDIO USB

[. . . ] English Manual Version: 05. 11. 02 CE Declaration We: TerraTec Electronic GmbH, Herrenpfad 38, D-41334 Nettetal, Germany hereby declare that the product: Phono PreAmp Studio USB to which this declaration refers is in compliance with the following standards or standardizing documents: EN 55013 The following are the stipulated operating and environmental conditions for said compliance: residential, business and commercial environments and small-company environments. This declaration is based on: Test report(s) of the EMC testing laboratory The information in this document is subject to change without notice and shall not be deemed as a warranty by the seller. No warranties, express or implied, are made with regard to the quality, suitability or accuracy of this document. The manufacturer reserves the right to change the contents of this document and/or the associated products at any time without the provision of prior notice to specific persons or organizations. [. . . ] In the Analyzer window, the frequency profiles of the input and output signals are dynamically displayed as is the noise print. You can pause playback with the button and "rewind" back to the beginning of the clip by clicking . During playback, you can restart playback at any position you like simply by clicking the position in the Waveform window. If your recording contains sudden popping noises, use the Declick adjuster to try to filter them out. If your recording has humming or buzzing noises or, in the case of a recording from an LP record, a constant background crackling, use the Decrackle adjuster to filter it out. To reduce or remove noises such as tape static or constant LP surface noises, use the Denoiser feature by adjusting the threshold and reduction adjusters. Use the button. function to listen to the noise that has been filtered out. 9. Adjust the volume slide so that the volume level never quite reaches the red range. phono PreAmp Studio USB (English) 15 10. Use the position. button to clip off the extra audio material to the left of the current marker 11. If you click the button, the current audio material is sent to the associated burning software as a new track. Simply repeat this step to instantly put together an audio CD, which you can then burn. The functions of the parameters for the Descratcher and Denoiser features are described in the chapters entitled, Descratcher, Denoiser and Application Notes. 16 phono PreAmp Studio USB (English) 3. User Interface Editing Area The editing area of Sound Rescue TerraTec Edition 2. 0 consists of four main components: Descratcher (on the left), Denoiser (on the right), Analyzer (in the center) and the adjustment sliders for bass/treble/volume (on the bottom). Two sound-level meters let you control the output level while, at the same time, you can adjust the volume and the bass and treble levels using the sliders mentioned above. Because the processor requirements of Sound Rescue TerraTec Edition 2. 0 are quite low (about 30 % for a 300 MHz Pentium II for a WAV file with 16-bit, stereo and 44. 1 kHz), you can optimize all of the parameters and simultaneously hear the results in realtime while editing your tracks. The editing area of Sound Rescue TerraTec Edition 2. 0 lets you listen separately to the noises that are being filtered out during processing in realtime. lets you listen to the input signal by bypassing the DeScratcher and DeNoiser filters. the percentage of CPU time being used by Sound Rescue TerraTec Edition 2. 0. Analyzer graphically displays the volume and frequency curves, which is useful for visually verifying the filter levels. removes noise and static from the audio material. DeScratcher DeNoiser phono PreAmp Studio USB (English) 17 Playback Area The Playback area is located in the lower section of the Sound Rescue TerraTec Edition 2. 0 interface. Using its features, you can record a WAV file, load a file for editing, start and stop playback, and jump to any position in the WAV file by moving the cursor within the Waveform display. After loading a WAV file, its name and format are displayed in the status window below the Analyzer and its waveform is displayed in yellow in a normal view, meaning it is adapted to fit within the width of the Waveform window. The playback area of Sound Rescue TerraTec Edition 2. 0 You can save the processed audio material by opening the file dialog box using the button. The sampling frequency of the saved file is identical to the frequency of the output file (44. 1 kHz). [. . . ] Be sure to use a high-quality sound card for recording your audio material, such as the TerraTec AudioSystem EWX 24/96. · If you save your audio files with a sampling frequency other than 44. 1kHz (for example, 48 kHz), you will have to convert them to a sampling frequency of 44. 1kHz. Here, too, be sure to use a high-quality software application for converting the frequency. Best results are achieved by evaluating the sound with your own ears using the Difference function during playback. [. . . ]