weight39doug:
Thanks for the reply. Belief, is definately not one of the tapes that you would try this with. I have a feeling that some other tapes might (like Prosperity), but how much benefit you would receive is hard to say. There is a possibility that you would receive less benefit doing it like this rather than the intended way. I was just hoping that somebody out there tried it and had some success.
Pratibha:
Goldwave is pretty good, but I don't know how it compares against Cool Edit. I'm more of a graphics person than a sound guy so I'm not really qualified to give you a good review. Just give it a try, you might like it. The URL is www.goldwave.com in case you don't have it.
As for amplification, well... I know that there is a mic boost (+20db) in your volume control (assuming you're using one of the windows flavors) when advanced controls are turned on. The strange thing is that the advanced settings are not available in "line in," they are there only for the mic. So if you're using line in then this won't work for you. Oh, also make sure that when you are setting the record level, in the control, that you are viewing record levels and not the playback levels. It's been my experience that even though you might be able to view the mic (or line in, or auxilary) with the control set to playback, it does nothing unless you explicitley set it in the record option. Mine were also very low until I changed them. Then they were too high, and everything was distorted. I just had to play around a bit with the volume on the stereo and record levels for the sound card until I got a good combination. On another note, it might very well be your sound card. In which case the only other options are that you buy another sound card or do it through software once recording is finished. I know that Goldwave will let you do this but I'm not sure of Cool Edit. However, there is a risk of adding noise or distortion by going this route. I hope this helps.
I had a similar thought concerning mixing. What I was thinking about was having the same paraliminal mixed in but delayed for a few seconds. In essence, you could listen to the same paraliminal twice in the time it took only one. I think I like your idea better about mixing different paraliminals together. Will these ideas work? Who knows, but it might be worth a try.
