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Thread ID: 137184 2014-06-03 01:45:00 Vinyl - CD ? Woody (710) PC World Chat
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1376375 2014-06-04 04:15:00 I used cool edit a bit as well, but as Nero came free with optical drives back then and had a very good wav editor I mostly just used that. I believe it was a licensed basic version of cool edit in essence anyway - they were certainly near identical to use. This was all many years back and would have been XP with nero 5 or 6 most likely.

For tapes you just sample a section of silent lead-in and used it as a noise profile to delete the tape hiss from the recording - result is near perfect and the difference is amazing. For vinyl you can do the same but the noise is far less consistent and I never liked the results. I know someone who will spend hours manually zooming in on the waveform to cut out pops but I just leave them in :) He tells me if you zoom in far enough and cut out a tiny portion of the waveform it's usually unnoticeable.
dugimodo (138)
1376376 2014-06-04 04:42:00 I used cool edit a bit as well, but as Nero came free with optical drives back then and had a very good wav editor I mostly just used that. I believe it was a licensed basic version of cool edit in essence anyway - they were certainly near identical to use. This was all many years back and would have been XP with nero 5 or 6 most likely.

For tapes you just sample a section of silent lead-in and used it as a noise profile to delete the tape hiss from the recording - result is near perfect and the difference is amazing. For vinyl you can do the same but the noise is far less consistent and I never liked the results. I know someone who will spend hours manually zooming in on the waveform to cut out pops but I just leave them in :) He tells me if you zoom in far enough and cut out a tiny portion of the waveform it's usually unnoticeable.

I recall the nose profiles, like a template and then apply it to other tape lead -ins to quickly remove similar noise. Could create a few noise removal template files. Also spent hours zeroing in - known as setting and applying zero crossing points (my.safaribooksonline.com) as a reference base to start edits from. It works well, but can take 2 to 4 hours to kind of remove/edit pops/clicks/ and then sometimes running frequency plots, then readjusting volume gains, reverbs etc.

Eventually we purchased remastered albums online, rather than hours editing.
kahawai chaser (3545)
1376377 2014-06-04 23:42:00 There are risks to copying audio recordings:

I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards and erased all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank." -
- Steven Wright
R2x1 (4628)
1376378 2014-06-05 03:19:00 Well their are inherent and perhaps overlooked risks to copying audio (mp3.about.com), and how to legally use that music, i.e. in public, private or commercial event. kahawai chaser (3545)
1376379 2014-06-05 05:46:00 I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards and erased all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank." -
- Steven Wright

Steven Wright was prone to those problems, I seem to recall he accidentally floored it in reverse when leaving Court after finalising his divorce papers, crashed and woke up still married. It wasn't all bad though, he didn't have to pay his attorney's bill.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
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