Good noise reduction is going to cost you some money, the best stuff
isn't cheap.
YOu could spring for goldwave which has some noise reduction, I don't
think it's that great, but what do you expect for $30 or whatever
they're charging?
I use soundforge, which is quite a bit further up the food chain and
more professional, I think they're wanting $200 $300, you'll have to
go look it up, but you get the whole bundle now with they're noise
reduction plug-in.
I used to use a program called groove mechanic which wasn't bad, it
can handle lp and cassettes and would do batch jobs, but the thing is
to do noise reduction properly you need to take a noise print, not
just use pre-sets, so it requires some engineering skills to take the
right print and make sure you get a good one and to make sure you get
consistant noise.
So these programs that claim to reduce noise and do a blanket one
size fits all either end up messing up the sound by being too
aggressive, or not aggressive enough, so groove mechanic proved to be
such, after my skill level as an engineer got to a certain point, I
didn't like groove mechanic anymore because it was just too
mickey-mouse for me, didn't give me enough options couldn't adjust
the pertinent parameters to get really good results.
But I believe groove mechanic is still being sold and works with
window-eyes and is cheap for those who want a run it and forget it
solution that isn't too bad, I like it better actually for records
than cassettes.
But for your best noise reduction, your gonna spend lots more cash, I
forget who the company is, but they're supposed to be really tops,
but they're stuff is like a thousand dollars but it's incredible what
it can do with bad recordings.
This technology gets better all the time, and of course we get some
trickle down, and my tools are medium grade, I just can't justify the
absolute best stuff for the amount of work I get transfering tapes
and such and the medium tools used right work well with some care and
skill, no doubt there are other fft based tools out there that are
fairly inexpensive now, google noise reduction and see what you find.
At 08:09 PM 7/18/2009, you wrote:
Hi, everyone,
I have some music cassettes that I thought I'd copy to the Booksense
as MP3 files, and then transfer them to CD
Does anyone know of a program I could use to get rid of the hiss
from the tapes?
Kim Lingo
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