Hiss with Total Recorder

[Gswiss]

I captured a musical cassette from a hi-fi unit to a pc using Total Recorder 5.1. I connected a cable from the headphones hub on the hi-fi unit to the line-in plug on the sound card.

Sound captured onto a wav file comes out fine except that there is a regular short hiss every 65 seconds which covers the sound of the music. I did a recording with three different pieces of music from the same tape and obtained the same result. It’s always a cycle of 65 seconds.

When you listen to the tape directly on the hi-fi, it's perfect.

I'll probably be switching to Goldwave but I was interested to know what was wrong.

[Soopafresh]

Might be due to a built in "cripple" of the unregistered version of total recorder.

[Gswiss]

You're right. I installed it some time ago and forgot the activation key. I should have found that out myself. Sorry.

Anyhow, it appears that Goldwave is one of the best audio capture products available.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Audacity and www.cdwave.com are good as well.