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1000 Words About Converting LPs & Cassettes To CDs.
 
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Records what you've heard on the Internet AFTER YOU'VE HEARD IT.
Bonus - Click to see how.
The Interface Mixer & Hookup - Everything you need is included in this audiophile connection interface to your computer. See The Knobs And Jacks Here.

The PRO Disc Jockey Turntable. Track the center of the groove. Get the best possible sound. Check out the aluminum platter, anti-skating arm, damped cueing arm strobe, pitch control and more. See The Detailed Pictures Here.
The Click Pop & Hiss Filter Program. It really does remove the scratches, clicks, pops and hiss without hurting your music at all. See The Clicks Disappear.

Don't waste your Time. Use the no baby-sitting timed record. See it.
The Main DAK Wave Editor Recording Program - There are more than 20 actual programs included with DAK's Editor - Nobody in the industry lets you unlock the power of your music in the ways you'll see below. Record, make new fade-ins, fade outs, edit out talking or applause. Speed up your music, slow it down and much more. See How Digital Gives You Never Before Access To Unlock Parts Of Your Music Here

 Extra Bonus Programs included - Built into the editor are special programs to burn your CDs with No Pauses, apply MP3 Tags to groups of tracks you convert at once, record songs off the
What do you hear? Your speakers, your system your ears. See it here.
Internet that have ALREADY PLAYED & DAK's Test Tone Generator gives you the power to Test Your Speakers, Your System & Your Ears?
See My Capturing Music That's Already Played Animation & More Here.

Get Your $659, 169 Digital Sound Effects Bonus - I'm not exaggerating the price. You really do get $659 worth of effects you'll use to personalize your computer sounds, add impact to your movies, PowerPoint presentations, and so much more. Actually Listen To A Few Of Your $659 Digital Sounds Here Demo.
Hi,
It's true. A picture really can be worth a thousand words. And it's especially true with technology. As you look below, I hope that you'll see the parts, angles and buttons clearly so that you'll have a 100% clear understanding of just what this product can do for you. Products don't get reviewed unless I think they're good. I hope my pictures help you determine if you agree or not. . . Drew
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Here's Your Interface Mixer Preamp. It All Starts Here.
The Software Programs Are Detailed Below. Skip to The Programs?
OK, our Interface Mixer is really a bit of overkill. (All the knobs and sliders.) But, you want really great quality sound for your LPs, 45s and cassette copies to CDs and MP3s. And, a stripped down phono preamp with only a 65db signal to noise ratio won't cut it.

What's really important is that DAK's Interface Mixer Preamp is flat from 20-20,000hz and has a Signal to Noise Radio of -80db. The internal Phono Preamp strictly reproduces the RIAA frequency curve so you'll have flawless copies of all your LPs.

Here's all you need to do.
Arrow 1) Select EITHER Your Turntable or Cassette Deck.
 Arrow 2) Slide The Input Volume Slider up to about 2/3rds.
Arrow 3) Set the Fader all the way to A if you plugged your turntable or cassette deck into the A jacks on the back, or to B if you've plugged it into the B jacks.

Now You Know All You Need To Do To Set Up The Interface Mixer.
 Oh, and here's my 5-minute easy setup movie tutorial that shows you all you need to do to connect everything. It's just this easy. Watch the movie.
YOU CAN DO THIS. It's Easy.


 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Here's The Back Of Your Interface Mixer.
Just Plug In The Cables And Start Copying.
The entire hookup is super simple. I just wanted you to see what to do now, before you buy it.
 Arrow 1.) Just connect either your turntable or cassette deck to the A Left and Right Jacks and you're on your way. Oh, and if you have a 2nd turntable or cassette deck, just connect it to the B jacks.

Arrow 2.) Connect our included cable from the 'Sound Card Amp' outputs to the 'Line-In' on your sound card and your done. Or as the movies say, you've just begun to enjoy.

Arrow 3.) If you are using a turntable, connect the ground wire from your turntable to the ground lug here. Never connect your turntable directly to your computer.

Now Let's Connect the Interface Mixer to Your Computer.
This Is your computer's Sound Card.

You DON'T have to open your computer or do anything complicated.
 
Just look at the back of your computer. You'll see 3 (or more) jacks on your sound card. The green jack is for your speakers. They should be plugged in there now. The pink jack is for a microphone. And the Blue Jack is where you plug in DAK's Interface Mixer Cable.
That's all there is to it. And it's no harder to plug in our Interface Mixer than it was to plug in your computer speakers. You'll be up and running in just a few minutes.

"Finally,
a product that actually does what it says it will! The set up was as simple as the web site movies indicated. The movies, by the way, are superb teaching tools! As I continue I will be interested in learning what else I can do! But it was REALLY drop dead simple."

T. E. Hot Springs Village, AR
 
"Hay Drew:
This Mouzzu Hillbilly, that's 74 years young with the DAK system, transferring tapes from the 60's 70's and 78's into super playing CD's. Set Up & Tutorial Manual assisted me to recording in a hurry. Email help is and was beyond my expectations. SUPER SATISFIED"

E. B. Kirksville, MO
 
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It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Now Let's Check Out Your Professional Disc Jockey Turntable.
It's a super heavy duty manual turntable that has all the features you need to get the best possible flawless sound from your LPs and 45s. Nothing was left out from its heavy aluminum platter, to its damped cueing arm to its precision anti-skating control. It's all shock mounted and from it's heavy duty dust cover (which many USB turntables don't seem to have) to its heavy duty super stable motor, this turntable will provide the best flawless reproduction of your treasured LPs and 45s.

If only the best will do for playing your treasured LPs and 45s or you demand only the very best sound for your copies, this professional disc Jockey turntable is the one you want.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
It's Where The Stylus Meets The Groove.
It really is where the stylus meets the groove that counts. Nothing other than the cartridge and stylus have any effect whatsoever on the quality of your sound. The rest of the turntable determines flutter and wow and speed accuracy, but only the cartridge itself determines the quality of the sound you will hear.

Many turntables today come with a premounted cartridge that's actually part of the turntable. Most professional DJs like to swap their top of the line cartridges depending on the type of music they are listening to. Well, while most of us don't actually do that, it's reassuring to know that we are including a Professional cartridge premounted on the industry standard headshell that is instantly swappable.

So this isn't a cartridge that comes mounted on the arm. But you don't have to worry about assembling the cartridge and attaching the wires. We've done that for you. It's already mounted to the headshell. All you need to do is push it onto the arm and tighten the connector.

This is a Dual Moving Magnet Phase II cartridge. It has the very finest elliptical diamond stylus for the best tracking. It has a super wide frequency response stretching all the way from 20hz to 20,000hz. It will reproduce your LPs and 45s flawlessly.


 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Heavy Aluminum Platter, Anti-Skating Super Heavy Duty
It's big. It's heavy. It has a Heavy Duty Belt Driven Drive System. Even the platter is all aluminum. And it's a perfect turntable to make flawless copies or take perfect care of your most treasured LPs and 45s.

Check the strobe at the left and set the pitch at the right. A full hinged removable dust cover protects your records and the turntable from dust. There's even a popup platter light so you can change discs in the dark if you're a professional DJ.

So, you know nothing is left out to make the sound, the care of your records and the function perfect. See below for detail about the arm.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Flawless Tracking & Anti-Skating Protects your Records & Gives You The Best Possible Reproduction of Your Treasured Albums.
Use the cueing arm lever to lower the arm and stylus into the groove. It's unbelievable to me the number of turntables that don't have cueing arms at all, or damped cueing arms if they have a cueing arm at all. A damped cueing arm slowly and gently lowers the arm, and there for the stylus into the groove. Don't buy a turntable without one.

Set the tracking weight. For playing records about 2.5 grams is perfect. For copying them I like to go up to about 3 or even 3.5 grams for the best reproduction. The controls on the turntable sure beat putting a quarter on the arm to keep it tracking the record. :)
Don't buy a turntable without a numbered anti-skating control so you can keep the record in the center of the groove.

Then set the anti-skating control.It's a law of physics. As the record spins, it tries to throw the stylus out of the groove. And while that really doesn't happen in a good turntable, it does try to push the stylus out of the center of the groove. And That's not good. So set the tracking to match the weight you set for the cartridge and you'll track the center of the groove for the best possible sound and preserve your records from excess ware.

I'm shocked to see that many turntables, and a few USB turntables I've seen do have an anti-skating knob, but they didn't even print numbers on it and they simply say that if the record skips to move the knob. Well we are long past records skipping. We want flawless center of the groove sound and loving care of our record grooves. Enough said?

Now you're ready to take perfect care of your most treasured LPs and 45s and enjoy the best possible sound obtainable, period.

Try a few 'scratch starts'. You'll be making great recordings, even if you want to start in the middle of track. And if you're a disc jockey, you'll be entertaining thousands in no time.

LPs may be from yesteryear to some people, but here at DAK, protecting yours and enjoying great sound is critical to all of our ongoing enjoyment of our favorite symphonies, musicals and songs.

And when you make a CD from this PRO DJ turntable, it will be wow and flutter free, perfectly tracked and the best possible sound reproduction you can get.

Use Your Turntable & Get Our Interface Mixer And Programs.

LPs To CDs, MP3s & CDRs
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Plus Get 169 Sound Effects & Tutorial
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It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
You Can even Adjust The Speed to Set Pitch Or Correct For Old Record Speeds.
Do you sing?
Do you play an instrument?
Do you have older LPs?

Well if you sing or play an instrument, you know that setting the pitch to match your voice is critical to using LPs created for someone else to sing along or play along with.

Plus, many LPs and 45s weren't cut just right. So this is one control you'll find that you use all the time. It really lets you adjust your music to suit your own personal taste.

Plus as you cue up one record and try to beat match it to another, you can't do it without perfect variable pitch/key control.

Important Note About Pitch And Key Control. You're also getting the DAK Wav Editor. It gives you the power to adjust your pitch/key in 1% increments after you've copied your LPs. So if you aren't copying an LP, use the Pitch control on the turntable. If you are copying it, then do it digitally in the DAK Editor.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
See & SET Wow Free Perfect Speed for Flawless Copies To CD
Here I've blown up the strobe on the side of the platter. If the dots move, you're not at 33-1/3 or 45. If they don't move you are. Now that you have a benchmark, you can adjust the speed to suit the pitch that you like. It's powerful control of the way you'll listen to your music from now on.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Not Pretty, But Heavy & Stable. Aluminum Is the Only Way To Go. No Plastic here.
I'm surprised I even have to show you the bottom of the platter. But so many turntables coming out today have gone to plastic platters that I wanted to show you that DAK's Disc Jockey PRO turntable still uses aluminum for the platter to give you the maximum stability and freedom from flutter and wow. Always check any turntable you buy to be sure that the platter is made from aluminum, not plastic.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Even In Darkness You'll Select Tracks Perfectly With This Professional Disk Jockey Turntable.
It's a Pop Up Track Light. Pop it up and you'll easily see the tracks in a darkened room. This is especially useful if you are working a club at night. But for those of us using this turntable at home, it's a must if the turntable is built into a closet.

If you don't need it don't worry. But know that nothing was left off this professional DJ turntable that can aid you in getting the most from your treasured record collection and making the most flawless recordings possible.

 Use Your Turntable & Get Our Interface Mixer And Programs.

LPs To CDs, MP3s & CDRs
Use YOUR Turntable & our MIXER.
Now With Included Recorder & Scratch Filter
Plus Get 169 Sound Effects & Tutorial
Just - $69.90 ($6.90 P&H)
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LPs To CDs, MP3s & CDRs
BOTH THE TURNTABLE & MIXER.
Now With Included Recorder & Scratch Filter
Plus Get 169 Sound Effects & Tutorial
Just - $219 (Save $20) ($18 P&H)
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Now You Know All About The Physical Part Of the LP And Cassette To CD & MP3 System


 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Let's Check Out All Your Powerful Programs.
DAK's Scratch, Click Pop & Hiss Filter
 
Just load as many tracks as you would like to have Clicks, Scratches, Pops or Hiss removed from. It's super easy to use and there's even a preview so you can hear the difference.

The best thing about DAK's Click, Pop And Hiss Filter is that it's really not really a filter at all. Actually it's a set of digital algorithms that remove clicks, scratches, pops and hiss WITHOUT HURTING YOUR MUSIC.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Choosing What You Want To Restore Is Easy.
Here's the option screen of the Scratch, Click, Pop And Hiss Filter. The neat thing about this one it's totally automatic. Just click what you want to do and it does it. If you do choose to click any of the setup buttons, a screen for each will pop up that lets you configure the restoration filter any way you want.
Important Note Do dozens at once: You don't have to restore 1 track at a time. Load 100 tracks and let them be restored to new sound splendor while you do something else. This is a massive time saver. But what's most important is just how great the tracks really do sound after they are restored.

What do you want to do to restore your LPs, 45s and cassettes? Here I explain why you might want to use each audio restoration option.

  1. Minimize Big Clicks- This is for scratches and major clicks. You can probably see on the record itself the scratches, and clicks you want to remove.
  2. Minimize Small Pops- Here you can eliminate the small clicks and pops that you probably have hundreds of on each LP. This is very different from big clicks and is probably the most important part of restoration. It's the almost continuous clicks and pops that really tend to drive me crazy and I'll bet they bug the #%*#% out of you too.
  3. Filter Frequencies- Remove low frequencies (typically rumble and pulley noise) or high frequencies (typically noise from older vinyl records) from your LPs.
  4. Minimize Hiss- Get tape hiss and other continuous noises. It's called a "noise floor" the hiss you hear in areas of the sound that should be silent. It's great because it obliterates the hiss without hurting the music.
  5. Normalize Frequency- Make all your tracks have the same bass and treble balance. Different tracks from different LPs or tapes can have large tone differences, which can be very distracting. Now you can eliminate them.
  6. Normalize Volume- This Feature is important. If you copy tracks from different LPs and put them on a single CD, sometimes the volume will be different from track to track. This Audio Restoration tool will analyze then normalize all the tracks so you won't be fiddling with your volume control as you listen to your CDs in the car.
Oh, yes. Don't forget Preview- You can preview the before and after so you'll know just what an awesome improvement you are making.

And one more very important point. It creates a NEW file like yoursong_NEW.wav for each track that you restore. You don't want to lose your originals.

Check out my product review if you want more in-depth detailed info. This section is just to show you what to look for when you get your own Click & Pop Filter. Click to visit my in-depth Click & Pop Filter Review.

Want to see what a click, pop and a scratch look like? Chances are you already know what they sound like.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
BEFORE -
Here's What The Click & Pops Look Like.

AFTER -
All The Clicks & Pops Are Gone.
What does a click or pop actually look like? Most times you really don't need to know because the new automated programs do everything for you. In fact, the DAK program doesn't even show graphs because it does it all for you automatically. But here I've used the editor that came with my Sound Blaster Sound card to show you just what clicks and pops really do look like.

Your Included Click, Scratch & Hiss filter looks at each wave of your music and removes ONLY unwanted nonmusical clicks, pops and scratches. You can see in the picture above, that the clicks look like straight lines.

Music has a more angled attack. What you can't see and what's most important are the clicks and pops that stay within the sound wave that a click and pop filter removes. It's amazing how well these filters remove the annoying to terrible clicks and pops that really can ruin our music. The Demo above is actually taken from the track you see. It's from the Limeliters Folk Group. They are my favorite folk music group and we see them as often as we can. Check out www.limeliters.com if you're into folk music.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Get The Hiss Out For Great Digital Sound
Hiss is the curse of cassettes. You can't see it but it's there in the music and whenever there's a soft passage or pause, the hiss rears its ugly head and ruins your musical atmosphere.

Now, as you can see in my graphical example above, when you engage the new included Hiss Filter it identifies a noise floor and knocks the hiss down, way down without running your music. Let me repeat that. The hiss is removed WITHOUT HURTING THE MUSIC. It's fully automated, there's nothing for you to do. Just click start and you'll enjoy your music like never before, hiss free and pure.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Easy Recording - You Can Do This.
It's so much easier than it was in the old days,recording with cassettes. You don't have to worry about the needle drop or timing or anything. Our system will automatically discard all the blank at the beginning and end of your recordings when you make tracks. Digital is so much easier than in the old days.

Just click Record to record, Play to play and Stop to stop. We even have a Record Wizard to let you do a test and set your levels. It couldn't be easier.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
No Wasted Time Baby-Sitting Your Recordings. Now, It's All Automatic.
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Don't sit there and monitor your recordings, unless you want to. You don't have to worry about the end of the record or the end of a tape. Just set the Recording Length Timer and relax. If you get a phone call, or get distracted or busy, the recorder will stop automatically for you, no problem.

This is big. It's groundbreaking. It's going to take the hassle out of recording. We've just added a Set and Forget Timer to the New Wave Editor Pro. Why do you need it? Now you don't have to baby-sit your recordings. Most LPs are about 20 minutes per side. Cassettes are 30, 45 or 60 minutes per side.

Just choose a time a few minutes longer than the side of your record or cassette. Click Timed Start, then start your LP or tape and go do something else.

You no longer have to keep an eye on when your recording will be finished. Now you can simply come back any time. Save your file. Separate your tracks. Edit out talking. Or, do whatever you want to do with your music.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Intro & Exit Blank Space Is Deleted Automatically. Unlike using a cassette deck you don't have to sync the start of the recorder with the needle drop or cassette start. Just leisurely start the recorder and then start your turntable or cassette deck. Same when you're done. Don't go flying across the room to stop the recorder.

Why NOT? Well when you use my Track Tracker to separate your tracks, it AUTOMATICALLY discards all the blank at the beginning and end of your recording. Welcome to 21st century digital recording.

Now you can concentrate on your music, not the act of recording. It's all automated for you.

I've never seen a Length Timer incorporated into a Wave Editor before. This is a revolutionary improvement that will really free you to record while you do other things.

It truly is a mega-time saver for all of us. Now you can convert all your Records, Tapes and Internet Radio easily and effortlessly without baby-sitting the recording any more.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
More Timed Recording While You Are At Work or Asleep. - Like A VCR/DVR For Sound.
Don't miss those special shows on the Internet, or playing on anything connected to your computer. I've added a separated special recorder so that now you can set a scheduled timer to record that broadcast you don't want to miss totally automatically. It will start and stop on its own.

This is a one event timed recorder we've added to let you capture those great shows you'd miss while you're at work or asleep.

And you can connect an AM or FM radio to the DAK Interface Mixer and capture those shows too. Think of it as a one event VCR/DVR for sound. Now you've got an instantly available recorder so you won't miss those special shows any more. Then you can listen to it later on your computer or burn a CD, or put it in your iPod or other MP3 player and take it with you.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Track Tracker - The Really Big DAK Difference.
The Tracker Separates Your Songs Like Magic.
OK, it's a fact.
You need to separate the records and cassettes you copy into tracks.

What that means is that each song, movement or chapter really needs to be a separate individual digital file. You see there's no fast forward or rewind on CDs, so you jump from song to song, movement to movement or chapter to chapter.

Plus, you make tracks so you're just one click away from keeping the tracks you want and deleting the ones you don't. Plus, you'll make CDs and MP3s with just the tracks you want in just the order you want them.

The CDs you make with DAK's system will be just like the CDs you buy in the store with programming and everything, except they will have the tracks you want in the order you want them.

Here's What's Bad In Other Systems
 Most people don't know about the tracks, so if you get an all in one copier, either you get no tracks at all, or you have to sit and stop recording at the end of each song and start again. If you miss one you're dead. It's really incredibly time consuming and not reliable.

There are software programs where you have to sit and listen for the tracks and click a track button to make a new track as you record. They are just about like all in one and require you to monitor everything every single second. God forbid, you miss a track, you really need to start over.

There are silence sensing programs that listen for the gaps between tracks on your records or cassettes. We have one too, but we only recommend using it for Internet recording where there is no noise like hiss or record pops to stop the sensor from seeing the tracks. We find that at best you get 70% of the tracks separated, then what do you do with the ones that didn't get separated or the ones where the track was separated during the actual music because there was a quiet part that the program mistook for a track so you end up with 2 tracks for one song?

Finally there's the old standard. You use an editor and highlight each track visually and then do a File/Save As and give it a name and a place to be stored. This works great but takes about an hour or so per album. Of course DAK's editor does this great too. But it's not the best or fastest, easiest way to separate your tracks.

Here's What's Really Good With DAK's Track Tracker System.
OK, forget spending an hour, 1/2 hour or even 5 minutes. The DAK Track Tracker gives you 1st time every time perfect track separations in about 2 minutes. It's super easy. It works 1st time every time and you'll never go back to manual track creating again.

All you do is zoom in, click wherever you want a track. Then let the Tracker do its thing. The whole process takes just about 2 minutes like I said and you'll have perfectly separated, numbered tracks ready to go. See how easy it is in the movie I've put right here.

See The Track Tracker Movie. It plays right on your Web page.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
Got An iPod or MP3 Player? Or Need Fast Mass Conversions? Want To Apply Effects or Make All Your Tracks The Same Volume?
If you're just converting LPs and cassettes to CD, you may never actually need the Batch Transformer. But this powerful super easy to use program (don't let all the boxes intimidate you) can make quick work of any group of files you want to convert or change. Let's explore what you can do now with just a click, to 5 tracks, 10 tracks or 100s of tracks at once. That's why it's called a batch transformer. It converts lots of tracks at once for you.

Arrow 1.) So you've made a bunch of Wav files. Just load them in the Batch Transformer, choose MP3 and any bitrate you like and with one click they will be converted to MP3s. Do 10 or 100, it's all automatic.

Arrow 2.) If you're making MP3s for your iPod or other MP3 player or just to keep on your computer, you'll want to have the MP3 tags like Artist, Album, year and Genre tagged to all your MP3s. Now with DAK's Batch Transformer, just enter the info once and it will add it to all the tracks from the record in seconds. Wow, this is so cool.

Arrow 3 & 3a.) OK if you're a power user, you are going to love the batch effects applier. Just choose what effects you want to apply. You can choose one, several or lots all at the same time. Then in 3a, you can choose how much of each effect you want to apply to your files. You can use a different amount for each type of effect if you like. Or just use the default for any or all. It's super easy to do.

Important Note About The Volume Of Your Tracks. Normalize is one of the powerful effect functions you can use on your tracks. What this does is make all the volume levels the same for all the tracks you load. When you make CDs or MP3 collections of tracks from several sources they might not be at the exact same volume level.

Just run them through the Normalizer and all the tracks you run through will be set to about the same volume so you won't be having to turn them up or down. I find that the Irish Rovers (one of my favorite groups) is almost always much louder than the Limeliters (my favorite group) or Peter Paul and Mary or the Kingston Trio. Now they're not. It's just that simple.

Arrow 4.) Same as for effects, you can batch filter a few files or hundreds all at the same time.

Arrow 5.) If you are a church or business, Append is for you. You can add an intro or exit to hundreds of tracks at once. So if you want the same music or introduction or the same ending for all your tracks, DAK's Batch converter will add it to the files all at one time. It can also mix a background behind the track as well. So you can add music, subliminal sounds or just about anything.

Arrow 6.) Rename will strip off whatever file names you have now and let you add a prefix plus it will sequentially number the loaded tracks. This is something you might want to use with pictures from a trip, or audio files or really just about any type of file.

The Batch Transformer will save you hours of effort and perform mass tasks that had to have been done manually in the past, or couldn't have been done at all.
 
 
It's All Included in the LP & Cassette To CD & MP3 System.
DAK Effects Just Got Better & Faster Instant Preview Too. Check This Out.
What if you'd like to add some echo? Maybe you want to increase the volume of a track, add drama by using the expander or cut the dynamic range with the compressor? Or you can add chorus and make yourself sound like you're a choir or add delay or any of the effects you see above. It's all easy. But just having effects in an editor doesn't make them easy to use.

Now you can truly get the full value of DAK's digital effects like never before. Yes, I'm excited, let me tell you why. In the past, with most good editors you had access to some or even many effects.

But check this out. First, with other editors, you'd have to choose the effect, maybe even the amount of the effect, usually with Presets so you had only a few choices as to how much of each effect you wanted to have. Well No More. I've added continuously variable sliders so you can get just the amount of any effect you want in 1% increments without having to settle for the amount in a preset the programmer thought you might want to have.

Plus, we've also added Preview to the effect. Just click Play and you'll hear the amount of the effect you've chosen. If you don't like it, just move the slider and Click Play again.

Now you'll get the exact perfect 1% resolution of the effect you want. No more guessing. No more wasted hours.

No more loading and unloading and undoing. Just Click Play and you're set. Then Click Apply only when you're totally thrilled with the micromatic precision that you've been able to achieve with absolutely no hassle or wasted time at all.

Now you won't have to compromise between how perfect you want your music to be and how much time you have to waste. Now it's super easy. Now it's super fast. And frankly if I look in my crystal ball, I don't see any other improvement that can be made for applying effects and filters that is better, faster or more professional than this one is.


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Fade In, Fade Out -Fast, Easy & Super Variable.
Change your Fade Ins or Fade Outs instantly and easily. Now you can get rid of long applause or talking or change anything you don't like. It's never been this easy before.

Do This. Highlight the area you want to fade. It can be a short area or a long area. It's 100% up to you. So if you choose a short area you'll get a sharp fade. If you choose a large area you'll get a gentle fade.

Then just choose Fade+ or - and you're done. It's just that simple to make your own professional, digital, perfect Fade Ins and Fade Outs from now on.
 
 
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Edit Even Part Of A Word Out In Seconds.
Here I'll Change Isn't Into IS
Wow, can you believe how easy this is to do? You can zoom in to even 1/4 of a second. You can find just the word, the Ah, UM or any part you don't like and edit it right out, fast and easy. It really takes almost no time at all.
LIVE Recording & Editing MOVIE DEMO
Plug in your Mike. Cue up your record. Open any existing music or voice track. Here's a quick example of removing HALF A WORD from a sentence so you can see how it's done.

Click To See How It's Done


And with DAK's new editor, there's nothing to learn that you don't see above in my little animated picture. It really is just this easy. Of course you don't actually see the words I've put there for you in red, but you can sure see the waves that make the words and you'll hear them too.

It really is just this easy to edit. You'll have a ball. I took an old song called Tell Laura I Love Her and edited out all the unhappy parts (if you know the song you'll know) and played it for my daughter-in-law, Laura, as a present. We had a ball.
 
 
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Virtual 78 Turntable.
Play 78s On Your 45 RPM Turntable
Convert 78 RPM Records On Your 45 RPM Turntable Like Magic.
Copy Cassettes At Double Speed 2X And Digitally Decode Them.
If you're like me, you have a bunch of 78s that are just sitting around. And your really good turntable doesn't play 78s. So, until now, you've no way to copy them to CDs let alone listen to them at all.

Now you can. DAK's all new 78 Automatic Virtual Turntable Converter lets you copy your 78s to your computer and then with a single click, listen to them again at perfect 78. It's great. It's easy and yes, you can easily restore them by removing the surface crackle and clicks pops and scratches then burn them to CDs too.

But what about the Needle? You can use DAK's standard elliptical diamond stylus to play the 78s. You CAN NOT use a 78 stylus on LPs as it would ruin the LP. If you have more than about 25 78s, we do have a 78RPM Cartridge that pops onto our PRO DJ turntable. But fewer than that, just use the stylus we ship and you'll get flawless copies.

OK, here's all you do. Get out your 78 RPM records. And put one on your turntable.

Select 45 RPM and you're set.

Click the Record Button on the Wave Editor/Recorder and then put the needle in the groove.

Just choose 45 RPM on your turntable and your 78s will soon be flawlessly copied to your computer and on CDs for you to enjoy from now on.
After you've played one side of the 78, Click Stop, name and save the file.

OK, now the fun begins.

1. Click Effects Menu/Speed Decode
2. Click 78 RPM Converter.

And like magic, the 78 RPM record that you played at 45 RPM will be converted to the correct speed. Click Play and you'll see how GREAT it sounds.

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Save Time On Cassettes Too.

Now if you have a high speed cassette dubbing deck or a cassette duplicator, just play your cassettes at double speed and after you record, just click Speed Decode/Half speed and the cassettes will be digitally returned to normal flawless digital sound.

Now with the DAK automatic timers and the 1/2x speed decode you really can process hundreds of cassettes super fast and with perfect fidelity.

Plus, if you've got any old tapes that were recorded at 15/16ths or 1-7/8s, use the 2X speed decode to return them to normal speed. It's digitally perfect.

So with DAK's automated speed decode choices you'll make digital copies that could never have been made in analog. And with digital speed decode, there's no loss, so you'll get 100% flawless decoded copies.
 
 
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How Many Colors In Joseph's
Coat Of Many Colors?
How Can You Listen To A Speech In 1/2 The time?
Speed Listening - Transcribing- Changing Key
Digital makes all things possible. If you want to transcribe some lyrics from a song or transcribe a speech, lecture or you name it, choose DAK's new Stretch feature in the editor.

You'll slow down the talking or singing as much as you want WITHOUT CHANGING THE PITCH. So, if you want to transcribe the lyrics from a song, this makes it super easy. My wife wanted to make a list of the colors in Joseph's Coat after we saw the musical. This made it easy.

We saw the Irish Rovers last month and they have a great song called 3 Jolly Rogues (See my picture). In it they drink about a dozen different types of liquor. It's kind of like the 12 days of Christmas with different drinks. We'll, we made short work of that list too. Now we've shared the list with our kids.

And you'll make short work of anything you want or need to transcribe, whether it's a speech, a song, a lecture or testimony if you're a court reporter. Now it's easy.

Speed it up too. What if you want to listen to a speech but you don't want to spend all the time it would take. It's a fact that you actually comprehend better if you speed it up because your mind doesn't wander when speech is faster.

Speaking is generally slow. Anyway, just slide the slider to make anyone speak faster and you can listen in the editor or save it as a wav or MP3 file and take it with you. It's all easy and you'll not only save hours, but frankly be able to learn things you simply didn't have time for before.

And fast or slow, the pitch/key will stay the same so you'll have perfect intelligibility regardless of whether you go fast or slow. Stretch Plus and Minus are very powerful parts of the DAK Wav and MP3 Editor Pro.

Oh and just so you know, there is also stretch with frequency change so you can adjust the key or pitch of the music if you like. Then you can sing along or mix music that 'was' in different keys. It's all in our powerful new editor.
 
 
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 DAK's NEW PLAYLIST MANAGER
PRESERVE TRACK ORDER WONDER
The problem. Windows sorts all the tracks on your computer, in your MP3 player and when your burn CDs alphabetically.
That's not the order you want for your musicals, symphonies or any of your tracks to be in. For a musical, you want the overture as the first track.
For a symphony, you want the first movement. And for your favorite, folk, jazz or rock songs, you want your tracks in the order they were in on the CDs, LPs or cassettes.

Till now, this was an unfixable Windows problem. Now, when you EITHER rip a CD or open a group of files from your hard disk, the Preserve Track Tool will assign a number prefix in front of the track name so that even when Windows sorts it, your track will stay in perfect order.
It looks like this (see left arrow in picture above):

01My Track Name
02My Track Name.

But that's not all. If you have tracks from different albums you can tell the Preserve Track Tool to assign a common Prefix so all the tracks stay not only in track order, but with the album they belong to like this:

FirstAlbum 01Track Name
FirstAlbum 02Track Name
SecondAlbum 01Track Name
SecondAlbum 02Track Name
DAK puts your tracks in perfect order and keeps them there in your computer, when you copy your tracks to MP3 players and when you burn CDs. This is a major new breakthrough in Digital music enjoyment.
 
 
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Preserve Track Order In Action
 
Here's a real life EXAMPLE you can do yourself of Windows Sorting that ruins your enjoyment of the music. I took my copy of Phantom Of The Opera and Ripped it to my computer. What you see on the left is the actual ripped results that I got and you would get too. As you can see the Overture came out as track 7.
IT'S THE SAME WHEN YOU COPY LPs, CASSETTES or anything onto your computer. Windows by default will put it in alphabetical order AND THERE'S NO SOLUTION that I've found till now.
On the right, you'll see DAK's Preserved Track Order in Action. It adds a small numerical prefix in front of the name that tricks Windows into keeping your tracks in the exact order that you want them.
It's simple. It's fast and you can have it added EITHER when you rip CDs, or use the Playlist Manager to PERMANENTLY CREATE TRACK ORDER that will never change. It's a whole new world of finally having your music stay in the order it's supposed to be in from now on.


 
 
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Print Tracks & Playlists Instantly.
This is big. Sure using your burner software you can often print a track list when you burn a CD. But there's been almost no way to print a track list for the tracks you keep on your computer or load into an MP3 player.
And, with several hundred tracks going into an MP3 player these days, how will you ever know what you have?
Now just load the tracks in the Playlist Manager. There's nothing special to do. If the tracks are on your computer, you can load any MP3 or Wav files.
Anyway Click Print and you'll instantly have the entire list in Window's Notepad. Then just click Notepad Print for a printed list, or save the file and you can import the text file into any fancy label printing program you might have. Any good one does have import.
You'll really appreciate the printed tracks. I carry the printed track lists in my car for my 12-disc changer and in my briefcase for my MP3 player.

Plus it's great to have on my computer so I can instantly search it to see where a particular song is located. This is a great tool.
 
 
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Tune Library Automated Jukebox.
Like Channel Surfing ON TV, Now Surf All Your Tunes.
Now you're just a click away from listening to any tune you own. Load them in the Tune Library and play them, sort them, enjoy them. Now you'll have all your tracks at your instant control.

Here's what I love to do. I just surf from one track to another. No CDs to load. I take a track from the Limeliters, one from Oliver and one from Annie Get Your Gun.

Here's the point. When you load CDs, you can play any track on the CD with just a click. But when you open the DAK Tune Library Jukebox, you can have all your tracks that you own ready to 'channel surf'. It really is literally every track you own ready to play with just a few clicks.

This is AWESOME.
 
 
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I Wish I had Recorded That Song That Already Played On The Internet -
Now You Have.
 
 

New technology gives you the power to capture Internet (or other) audio that's already been played. No more having to say I Wish I could have recorded that. Now you actually have recorded it.

There's never been anything like my newest invention, Drew's I wish recorder, for recording from the Internet or any signal coming into your computer.

What if you could grab a recording of what's ALREADY BEEN PLAYED? Wow, then you wouldn't have to say I wish I could have recorded that Song, that Phone Number, that Recipe or whatever you just heard that's ALREADY BEEN PLAYED.

OK here's how my new I Wish Recorder works. It continuously records in the background 24/7 if you like, a 5-minute buffered recording of what you've been listening to. So it doesn't build up big files or keep using up RAM use on your computer.

The I Wish Recorder just keeps recording the last 5 minutes of what you've heard and continuously discards anything beyond the 5 minutes. Then if you hear something that you want to keep, just click the Keep Button and the last 5 minutes of what you've heard is saved to your hard drive. It's never been done because there's never been a recorder that discards anything beyond 5-minutes before.

Plus There's More. We're all busy. So, let's say that a great song is playing. You want it, but it's not finished yet. You can click the +3 Button. Then the I Wish Recorder, not only records the last 5 minutes you've ALREADY HEARD, but also keeps recording for 3 more minutes into the future so you'll save a total of 8 minutes and that way you don't have to actually wait for a song to end before saving it. Very neat.
 
 
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Test Your System, Speakers & Your Ears? Test It And You'll Know.
OK, this isn't a medical hearing test. But how much of your music do you hear?
Test it and you'll know. How good is your equipment, are your speakers, is your room and are your ears? Test them all now!

Now you can instantly and effortlessly Test it for yourself.

Do those computer speakers really reproduce 30Hz? Test Them! We'll I think you'll be shocked to find that many computer speakers don't even reproduce 80Hz. Find out! That's why so many DAKonians connect their computers to their stereo to get the really great sound.

And let's talk high frequencies. Sure we are supposed to hear to 20,000hz. But, again, do your computer speakers even handle 10,000hz, let alone 14,000hz or maybe even 16,000hz? Test them! Now you'll know.

I can pretty much guarantee that your computer does, it's just the amps and speakers and well if you're over 50 you aren't going to be hearing those highs so well anymore either. (This is a good time to use the DAK EQ to boost those frequencies, more later.) But now you'll have a professional test tone generator so you'll know. It's easy. It's fast. Find out for sure. So Test It Now!

I show you how to:
1.) Test your equipment,
2.) Test your speakers and
3.) Test your room.
4.) Plus see which frequencies you hear in your room and with headphones too.

Click To See - My Tuning Your Room Tutorial.

Click To See - What Frequencies Do You Hear Through Headphones?

Click To See - The Actual Frequency Ranges Of The Instruments You Listen To.


 
 
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MP3 USB Recorder - Now You Can Hear WHILE You Record With DAK's USB Adapter Or Your USB Turntable.
It's a problem. A USB turntable or our USB audio adapter overrides your sound card and takes over the audio of your computer. That's great for recording, but it's not linked to your sound card's connection to your speakers, so while you can record flawlessly, you can't hear while you record which is a bummer. That's one of the major shortcomings of all the USB turntables I've tested.

So till now, we've made it possible to monitor what you record by plugging headphones or computer speakers into the front of the DAK Mixer Interface. And that works great.

But now, through some very innovative programming what we are doing is using a cute little computer trick called Playthrough to overcome the USB sound card shortcoming. It's really a very neat programming trick or workaround, but what we do is capture the signal as we record and concurrently send a copy of it to your normal sound card so you can hear it.

It works perfectly. It has no effect on your recording, or anything else, but you can hear as you record so no headphones or speakers need to be attached to our mixer.

Plus this is one really neat recorder. It uses 2 of our new displays. The peak Reading VUs for record and the Spectrum Display for playback. So while it really doesn't matter to anyone but me, it's a treat to watch as you record.

Oh, and you can use this recorder and its no baby-sitting timed record for recording any inputs into your computer or from the Internet too. Just don't click on the Playthrough Button if you're not recording from USB. It's a very powerful recorder.
 
 
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Song Stalker Internet Recorder
Silence Seeking Program
This is the Holy Grail of Internet recording. Get separated tracks as you actually record. And the Song Stalker is the best of the best I've seen. As you record and as the Song Stalker sees the silence between tracks, it automatically closes each track it's recording and begins a new track.

The Song Stalker is an Internet Recording Program. For records and cassettes like any other silence sensing recorder clicks, scratches and hiss make the Track Tracker above the better choice. But for digital Internet recording the Song Stalker shines.

Plus the Song Stalker will automatically save your tracks in the folder of your choice and not only does the Song Stalker automatically number the tracks for you, but it lets you assign a prefix name so you'll easily and effortlessly know what you've recorded and where it is. It's actually a separate program that's now built into new DAK Wave & MP3 Editor/Recorder Pro.
The Song Stalker continuously monitors the Noise Floor of your music and looks for the silence that connotes a track separation. When it finds the silence,

It creates a New Track.
It Names Your Track With a Prefix
 And It Numbers your track for you.
It's like a robot that essentially presses a virtual stop button, names and numbers the track, clears the screen and starts recording a new track. Wow, it does a lot. And it does it all without you.

It's very sophisticated. But in short it looks for silence. It uses very sophisticated algorithms to determine what silence really is. And it does a really good job.

It often reaches a totally automatic success rate of 7 or 8 tracks out of 10. But have no fear. You can separate the few remaining tracks using the Wave Editor itself or the all new Track Tracker technology that's just been added to the DAK Wave & MP3 Editor/Recorder Pro.

Using the Song Stalker is super easy and super fast. And the recordings will be flawless digital copies of whatever you want to copy.
 
 
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Rip CDs To Your Hard Drive - With 'Benefits'
DAK's CD Ripper is special. It's like the line, "friendship with benefits". It does much more than just rip CDs. Why do you want to rip CDs to your hard drive?

With DAK's ripper you can rip CDs to your hard drive to edit them, make compilations with tracks you've copied from LPs and cassettes and much, much more. Many DAKonians need to change the speed, add a measure or take out a measure for dance or exercise routines or to use extracted melodies in your PowerPoint presentations and for many other reasons. With DAK's Editor, which you're getting with the system, you're not locked out of your music any longer.

Most modern CD Rippers will rip CDs to your hard drive and even name the tracks. No big deal. We add 2 big extras that are really worth having. If you're ripping to put tracks in your MP3 player, then you'll love the fact that the ripper can apply all the MP3 tags for most CDs. It's a great time saver to have all the tags added automatically for you.

And the big, big deal is 'Preserve Track Order' which is something I invented. Here's the problem. When you load anything in Windows it alphabetizes it. Then you'll find that the Overture is with the Os, not at the beginning. All the songs on a CD that were in one order on the CD, will be alphabetized on your computer. It's a big problem. But we have the only solution I've seen.

When you rip CDs using my Advanced Ripper (we give you a simple one too), or if you use the DAK playlist manager, we add a number ahead of the track name as we rip so that Windows can't mess with the order of your tracks ever again.

It's a perfect solution to a Windows Problem. Now you'll have the tracks you want in the order you want them from now on, on your computer, in your MP3 player or anywhere you take them.
 
 
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 DAK's Easy Audio CD Writer Program.
 
Your computer came with CD burner software. And it probably works fine. But, it's probably a general purpose program that does lots of things other than just burn flawless digital audio CD copies of your music.
Because it's made to do so many things, it's often hard to find the controls you need to actually burn audio CDs. You need to be sure to Finalize/Close your CDs and to lower the burn speed to one half if you are burning for older car, home and portable CD players.
 I've made this CD burner close the discs automatically so you don't have to worry about it and I've put the speed control right up front.
And use our Playlist manager to set up the playlist order, then ours keeps the Preserve Track Order you selected when you ripped your CDs or used Preserve Track Order in the Playlist manager.
So add a track, a few tracks or all the tracks in a folder or from several folders. Move any track within the list anywhere you want. Remove any track. And combine Wave and MP3 files to burn your CDs. It's the easiest CD Burner software ever, because it does all the heavy lifting for you.


 
 
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Burn CDs With NO PAUSES Between Tracks.
First Musical commandment. "Thou shall not kill the mood." And now gaps won't kill your musical mood any longer. It took me 2 years to pull this off.

No pause, no gap, no break CDs, are awesome for a lot of reasons
 
Some Beatles and Grateful Dead recordings had no breaks between tracks.
Live concert recordings have no breaks.
Your own mixes where you fade one song into the next song, crossfades, have no breaks.
Church ministry tapes have no breaks.
 Motivational and spiritual tapes have no breaks.
Books and readings have no breaks.
 Presentations have no breaks.

For all of these reasons and more, you want to have no breaks, pauses or gaps between your tracks. Our Track Trackers don't put in pauses, just breaks so now you can have no pause CDs from now on. But, you do want to have tracks because you can't fast forward or rewind a CD.

So, if you don't have tracks, you simply can't jump from place to place. Now you can have tacks with no audible pause or break at all. Plus this new CD Burner will also write the new CD Text so that if you have a compatible player you can actually see the album and track names as you've written them to CDs.
 
 
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Make MP3 CDs & Back Up Your Tracks Big Time On CD or 4.7 or 8 Gig DVDs.
Plus Blue-Ray Too.
I hope you're good about backing up the files on your computer. After all, it's all about the music. And, you don't want to lose yours. We've had an MP3 CD burner in the Editor for a year. But this one adds the latest powerful folder feature too.

You can burn folders of MP3 tracks to CD, organized by artist or album and then it's easy to navigate to the artist or album you want. 10 hours of tracks on a CD is great. But it's even better when each folder is easy to get to and organized like you want it. More and more car players support folders so I wanted to have this powerful new feature for you now too.

But backing up your tracks fast and easy is the thing. Our New CD Writer Advanced Program not only writes to CDs, but also 4 and 8 Gig DVDs and Blue-Ray too. Now you can put 4 Gigs on a 25 cent DVD or over 8 Gigs on a $1.25 8 Gig DVD.

Now you can make fast easy backups of your tracks hassle free. Just load then in DAK's new CD & DVD burner and you're all set. Oh, and we support the new Blue-Ray too, but those 25 Gig discs are still a bit rich for most of us.

My Green Arrows show that I've put 1114 MB of files with 3374 MB left to fill out of a total of 4488 MB on my DVD. Wow, CDs seem so outdated now.


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