ABSTRACT
There are recorders that plug in to a USB port and appear as a disk drive. Here the audio files will already exist and can be copied across to your work folder. This can often be done on the desktop but it can be useful to copy them via Audition so that the files can be ‘topped and tailed’ so that the file starts and finishes cleanly. The file format can be changed to .WAV if a different format is used by the recorder. This is particularly important if a compressed format has been used. Changing to a .WAV format will stop further quality loss due to data compression. Most material will have to be copied, in real time, through the sound card of your computer, preferably if the source is digital, using the digital inputs to preserve the best quality.
