On 3 Nov 2008 at 9:05, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > On Mon, November 3, 2008 7:39 am, Chris Bell wrote: > > For those in need of noise/hiss/rumble/clicks removing . . . > > Here's a list of software that I use to work their magic: > > http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoapPro/ > > The slightly cheaper version, but still very good: > > http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoap2/ > > http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/RX/ > > http://www.waves.com/Content.aspx?id=197 > > . . . and magic it is, the ability to remove noise and rumble at no > > cost to the sound quality is bordering the miraculous! > > I've used two of these, and they're excellent for results with "no cost to > the sound quality". But I think David, who is using Audacity, is looking > for "no cost to the pocketbook". :)
That's correct. While my finances are better these days than they have been in a couple of years, I'm still not in a position to spend money on something that is this "optional." In any event, Audacity was *almost* good enough. I can imagine that with recordings other than this particular one, its noise reduction would have been sufficient. For some reason, on this recording, both of the approaches that were suggested to fix the recording also removed qualities of sound that I wasn't willing to give up. I don't know for certain if more expensive tools could have been used more subtly to produce something that me ears would find satisfactory (one of Dennis's efforts produced with his normal tools really did sound quite good and didn't seem to sacrifice the overall quality of sound that I kept losing when I did it in Audacity, and that his Audacity edit seemed to lose, too), and that's another reason I wouldn't contemplate spending the money for those tools. It could be that with more practice with Audacity I could get the results I want. But at this point, it would require much more work than I'm interested in doing. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
