Charles Deenen (home) wrote:
>
> You might want to see if you have a friend or relative that has Protools
> with Nonoise or the Waves Restoration bundle. Excessive tape hiss and noi=
se
> is not easy to =B3filter=B2. Substractive filtering is needed most likel=
y in
> those cases.
>
> Heck, if they are good recordings, you can probably find plenty of people
> that are willing to do this for you in trade of the sounds on those tapes=
.
But, once committed to this path, and assuming that you will be making
new recordings it's time to build up a software kit of your own. A Ok
option if no more nature recording is contemplated. But if this is
ongoing, set up to handle it.
Particularly as self publishing a cd is a goal it's going to be
necessary to set up with some reasonable software. The start can be done
with inexpensive stuff, but if a quality cd is to be produced, you are
into having something that has good filters and editing. Or has the
ability to use standard plugins. Preferably both. And if mixing in
narration even more complication is involved.
I use two pieces of software for my work. I use Peak as my standard
editor, for bringing the sound in, cut and paste editing, minor gain
adjusts and so on. For heavy filtering I use Spark XL. Peak has been
responding to the capabilities of Spark XL for filtering, and has a new
version out (version 4) that appears to have some at least of what Spark
XL gives me. I don't know if it has integrated a sonogram display into
the filtering yet, have not had time to investigate. Been putting it off
until I have OSX running on my machine.
I burn audio cds with Roxio's Jam. This has abilities not found so far
in Peak or in Roxio's Toast. Like, for instance the crossfades that are
in the frog cd once DNR releases that. Or at least last I heard they
were in it. Those were done without modifying the source files. As was
the final gain adjust to make them all work together.
> Ps: don=B9t forget the A-D stage as well. It=B9s an important factor.
Assuming it's a mac with sound input, that's not too big a problem. The
standard analog sound input of macs is CD quality. Plenty good enough
for cassette. If it happens to be one of the newer macs that they left
the sound input off, then a USB device is the way to go. A number are
available.
Walt
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