Cleaning up a 2-ch field recording, that's all I need to do.
Hi all,
My DAW needs are quite simple. I go out and make a recording of a chamber ensemble, for instance. It includes dead periods, narration, and extended applause, among other things that need to be separated from the music. I record at a conservative level so as to avoid clipping. Back home, I want to 1. Eliminate the non-music parts. 2. Fade in and fade out the clips I want to save. 3. Raise the overall gain of the recording to just hit 0.0 dB on the highest peak. 4. Export to Compact Disk or "Track" files in MP3, etc. I avoid the use of compression, equalization, echo, etc.; I have buttons on my entertainment system for that.
With Garage Band and most of the alternatives I've looked at, I probably need about 1% of what the app can do. I need help on how to cut to the chase, clear the clutter, etc., so I'm not distracted by "Instruments", "plugins", metronomes, and the like. Maybe Garage Band isn't the proper tool, but I've decided to give it a good look because it's native to the Mac. Can you suggest how to approach this?
Bonus question is whether I can expect to be able to do "timed record start" and "timed stop/save".
I learned my way around Audacity, but it isn't stable on my latest Mac. So, I'm on this app excursion.
Regards,
Jerry
iMac (M3, 2023)
