Lily,
For a Mac, and in my limited experience, you would have a very
workable system for good quality audio using Peak LE (I have version
Message: 5.
Subject: 2) which supports VST plug ins and is a top quality 2 track stereo
sound editor with an easy to use interface. Peak LE is advertised at
$99 US.
One very good equalization plug in to use with Peak is apulSoft apEQ
for about $75 US.
A very useful stand alone broadband noise reduction system is RX from
Izotope ($349 US). It is easy to download and install. RX is a bit
sparse with 'how to' information, so you have to play around with it
and learn intuitively. It should be perfect for reducing noise in
telephone interviews. It is much better than Soundsoap (lite version).
You can download trial versions of apEQ and RX.
I am sure others will have lots more suggestions.
Vicki Powys
Australia
On 09/10/2009, at 12:09 PM, Lily Plants wrote:
> Hello, all you nature people. I need help. This is my second email
> today.
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> Please advise on a sound editing program for two purposes: (1)
> clean up 150-250 cassette tapes of telephone interviews and (2)
> edit/mix sounds which fit short videos (one to ten minutes). I'll
> also be shooting for sound/video installations.
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> I'm new to recording and sound. I'd like to get settled with
> software that's capable enough. I'm sure there are options other
> than Apple, but that's what I have access to other than Lynda.com.
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> I don't want to buy too little or too much software. will abandon
> the inexpensive AudioHijack Pro which records from input sources
> and supports plug-in filters during recording. It's harder to
> control than Apple's Soundtrack Pro as I discovered today at an
> Apple one-to-one session. Soundsoap sounds "ify" - an example of
> too little software.
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> Soundtrack Pro is not a stand alone program. It comes with either
> of two apple packages, Logic Studio and Final Cut Studio. I'm
> getting mixed advice from the Apple people. So I don't know if
> Soundtrack Pro is good enough, but I can get help with it from
> Apple (or Lynda.com.
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> I own Final Cut Express, but it doesn't have enough sound
> capability to clean up the tapes. Final Cut Studio comes with
> Soundtrack Pro and other software packages. It's $850 & and sort of
> duplicates the video of FCE.
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> Logic Studio is $415 and has music software I don't need.
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> Any advice or suggestions?
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> vividly grateful.
> lily
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