Cassette Rips playing Slow, How to change speed in Cool Edit

[bbr620]

Hi all, needing a bit of help with Cool Edit Pro to adjust cassette rips to correct speed as tape player is playing slow.

I'm using Cool Edit Pro but unsure of the preserve pitch / tempo / resample options?

If i want to speed up the entire tape as to how it should sound at correct playback speed, which stretching mode should i select [see pic, bottom left options]



thanks..

[Alec124c41]

As it is set. Both pitch and tempo have to be brought up to speed.

Cheers,
Alec

[thespirit3]

Why people use the word 'rip' I don't know. Not having a go at you, just confused at how words seem to get redefined. To me you're just 'recording' it. Ripping implies you're taking an exact digital copy of a digital medium. Maybe I'm just old!

However, if you value any of your music on cassette I'd urge you to buy a working cassette deck or repair the one you have. If your current deck is playing slowly I'd also suspect the speed will not be constant. Not only this, but any low frequency bass may disappear due to falling foul of filters in the cassette deck (slowing bass makes it even more bassy, possibly sub-audible) or filters (or perhaps just frequency response) on the input of your soundcard.

Once in the digital domain, resampling shouldn't cause any problems. However, judging the % required may be tricky!

Alec124c41 is correct though, resampling is your friend. You don't want to preserve the current pitch (which is flat) or the tempo (which is slow). You want both increased

Good luck!

[bbr620]

thanks to you both, sounds great now & i only have 20 cassettes to "rip", lol

tape deck quality ain't an issue as it's a pile of old dance music dj's from clubs i went to 20 year ago so it's not for archival purposes.

i just check the bpm at start / end of cassette & if different, i can apply a gliding pitch adjust, just wasn't sure whether to preserve tempo.

i refer to it as a rip as i'm ripping analogue / digital sound to archive in FLAC, so, it's a rip, thanks again

[gg383]

I like your Spirit (thespirit3), if you're gonna do it do it right, you may move up to a new deck in the future or play them on another persons unit, it would be nice for those tapes to sound nice then also!! Glenn.