Thanks so much for the feedback, John. The digital recorder I had planned to use was the PTR1 and I had planned on storing the recorded speeches on a CF card. My back-up recorder would be the Olympus DM-4, but I am still not sure if I can use a line-in cord where the external microphone is plugged in. In all truthfulness, what I want to accomplish isn't rocket science. I just want to take out extraneous conversations and large blocks of audio when presentations aren't being given. So thanks so much for your feedback and have a great weekend. Mike On 23,Oct,2010, at 9:59 PM, John Hess wrote: > Michael, may I make some suggestions? First, I would consider using a > digital recorder such as the olympus dm4 to do the recording work. If you are > recording your own presentations this is perfect and will give you the > control you need. I have recorded podcasts this way and it works well. Next, > you would just import the file in to your audio editor of choice. Personally > I like Audacity and it's free. Click on: http://audacity. > homerow.net/index.php?dir=accessible > I produce professional programming with this editor and it does the job for > me. I have also used Amadeus pro and it's excellent. I used that before > Audacity. Give them both a try and see which one suits your needs.On Oct 23, > 2010, at 2:01 PM, Michael Busboom wrote: > >> Greetings to all of you, >> >> In the next couple of months, I will need to be doing a lot of sound >> editing. While I am quite proficient with Sound Forge running under >> Windows, I want to continue migrating more and more tasks to the Mac. So >> here are some questions, and thanks so much in advance for any and all >> feedback. >> >> 1. I will be recording all of the presentations for a conference of the >> European Blind Union which will take place here in Vienna from November >> 11-14. Would GarageBand allow me to comfortably edit these large MP3 files >> that each presentation will require? >> >> 2. I may need to leave the recording equipment unattended for several hours >> at a time, thus producing very large files. Since I am a presenter, I won't >> always be able to leave the main conference auditorium to turn off the >> recording equipment after each presentation. Will GarageBand let me split >> larger files into smaller ones without introducing too much degradation in >> the quality of the recordings? I assume that this is possible, but I just >> want to make sure. >> >> 3. I am somewhat concerned about AC hum in the recordings. Does GarageBand >> have filtering tools which might help allay this concern? >> >> 4. Since I am already somewhat familiar with sound-editng software, albeit >> the Windows flavor, how steep a learning curve will there be before I can >> undertake a project of this magnitude? >> >> 5. Finally, where can one purchase GarageBand, and how much does it cost? >> >> Thanks so much, >> >> Mike >> >>> >>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>> >>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >