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 noise
is not easy to =B3filter=B2. Substractive filtering is needed most likely =
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.
Ps: don=B9t forget the A-D stage as well. It=B9s an important factor.
-charles
> From: Walter Knapp <>
> Reply-To:
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:19:59 -0400
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] taking the leap
>
>
> M, J, & V Phinney wrote:
>> > Hi All
>> >
>> > I'm going to make the big move of transferring many hours of bird / fr=
og /
>> > mammal recordings from cassette tape to digital format. My ultimate go=
al is
>> > to create an instructional cd of bird songs using the local dialects I=
've
>> > recorded. I hope to achieve this on a shoestring budget. Can anyone
>> > recommend a freeware / shareware / 'demo' version of an easy-to-use
>> program?
>> > The simpler, the better...the only 'extra' feature I can think of that=
I
>> > might need is some way to filter or edit out background hiss/hum, etc=
. >>
Any
>> > other helpful hints would be appreciated. I'm running Mac OS 9.1
>
> You were doing fine until you said filter. That's something that will
> put you into commercial software.
>
> Bias Peak is what I'd recommend. You can cobble something together out
> of the free stuff, but it's not going to do much more than just get it
> into your computer. There is a free trial version, and a Peak LE that
> will do all you need except the filtering.
> http://www.bias-inc.com/
>
> Walt
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