Get a good recording device. I used an 8mm camcorder for most of the sounds. A mini-disc recorder or DV recorder would be ideal. A small cassette recorder would also work.
Mount the recorder. I use a bungee net and a couple of zip ties to secure an 8mm camcorder to my bike. Always face camcorders rearward to lessen wind noise and protect the lens from bugs and other road debris. You may want to wrap it up in a t-shirt to keep dust out of the machine.
You can also set it near the road or with a friend and scream on by.
Keep it short. You'll soon find out that few people actually want to listen to 10 minutes of your bike. (no matter how cool your bike is to you)
Make it a WAV. Windows 95 or 98 will have a sound recorder standard. You may need an adapter to convert to the right size plug for your sound cards input jack. For best results, use a cheep 2 channel mixing board to step down the output to a level that wont distort when recording the wav. file.
Convert the wav. You'll notice that the finished wav. is way too big to email to most people. The best format around for audio is MP3. Go to a freeware site and get Music Match. Or any other MP3 encoding software. This software lets you write an MP3 file from a WAV. This will compress the file to a usable size.
Get Winamp. You really should have an MP3 player by now. If not GET ONE. It's a great way to play most of my cool sounds at this site. Winamp is FREE so you have no excuse.
Email the new sounds to me. ( sounds@cybersportbike.com ) If the file is too large, send me a little Email and we'll work out another method.
Another good MP3 resource.
