Compression: None
Source: Mic
(This assumes you are plugging in to your mic inputs. If
you have a separate sound card, i.e. IF-PCI16, AudioMedia III, Paris
System, etc. then select the appropriate input source.)
Ch: Stereo
Bit: 16
Rate: 44.1kHz
Once you’ve got all the settings properly set, click on OK. You’ll pop
back into the primary Recording Options Screen. You may want to
enable the monitoring of the input in Peak LE by clicking in the
Monitor box just under the level meters. This will allow the signal
going in to be heard through the speaker outputs. Then, click OK to
leave the screen.
Click on the Record
button to get the
record screen. Once you’ve
got the levels set right,
(watch the levels at the
bottom of meter at the
bottom of the screen,) go
ahead and click on the
Record button in the Record
screen and start playing your
audio. As the recording
goes along, the waveform
will appear in the screen.
When you’re done,
click on the Stop key. Peak LE will prompt you to name the
file. If you want to re-record the file, just cancel out of that screen,
and record again. If you like what you recorded, save it and Peak LE
will take you into the waveform screen where the audio is displayed.
The top two waveforms show the entire sound file, with a box around
the area that is represented in the bottom screen. The bottom
(larger) waveforms are where you will do your editing. You can zoom
in and out by pressing APPLE “[“ and APPLE “]”.
While Peak LE is a very capable editor with advanced features, we’ll
just cover the basics here:
Tight Leadering - To delete the dead space before and after the
audio, click and drag across the unwanted audio. You can audition
the audio by pressing the space bar. To move the edges of the
selection, hold shift, and drag across to your new selection point. To
remove the selected area, press delete.
Fade - To add a fade to the beginning or end of a file, simply select
the portion of the file to be faded, go to the DSP menu, and select
Fade In or Fade Out.
