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bgate

12-29-2003, 09:18 PM

Sorry if this is too far off topic, but I did make the recording using my PPC :D and I figured if anyone knew... it would be the good folks 8) here.

So, I made a recording of an old (really old, cylindar record old) recording that has special meaining to the family. My goal is to clean up the recording by eliminating the scratches and pops and then record to a cd. I have done some Googles but haven't found what I am looking for. Any experiences or suggestions?

Thanks

Vulcan

12-29-2003, 09:29 PM

I know that Roxco Easy CD Creator has a feature to removing the hiss from records that you want to burn to a CD.....perhaps that would be a place to start.

Godsongz

12-29-2003, 10:29 PM

Adobe recently bought Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro 2.1 and rebranded it as "Adobe Audition". Its a $300 piece of software, but it is phenomenal in every regard. Probably total overkill for this project, but something to consider if you are going to do a lot of audio work on your PC. I don't remember paying that much for it from Syntrillium, but my company paid for it, not me :)

bgate

12-30-2003, 06:54 AM

Thanks for the input. I read elsewhere that the Roxio product could do that, I will have to see if I can find my old version of it.

upplepop

12-30-2003, 07:29 AM

Look into Sound Forge (http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/Products/showproduct.asp?PID=668&FeatureID=5775) as well. It does cleanups very well. The only downside is that it is expensive ($400).

EDIT: I forgot to mention that you will need the Noise Reduction Plugin (http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/products/showproduct.asp?PID=14) in addition to SoundForge... if you decide to go this route.

Dave Beauvais

12-30-2003, 08:01 AM

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), a free, open source audio editor, may also be able to do some of this. I've only used it to record things and reduce noise, but have never tried to remove the kind of noise you're dealing with. Still, it's free, so it doesn't hurt to check it out.

qmrq

01-01-2004, 01:03 PM

Adobe is buying *everything* these days. Hrm. :|

Go with CEP to do the job. You can use the demo for 30 days if you don't feel you'll have much more use for the software. Read through the documentation and it should be pretty easy. If this recording is particularly important you might want to have a pro handle it.

Godsongz: As far as I know CEP has been $200-$300 for some time.