basic audio editor

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shawn912
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2008/09/17 16:39:11 (permalink)

basic audio editor

Can someone recommend a reasonably priced program to clean up audio files? All I need is something to adjust the noise in a few live recordings.
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    aaronk
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    RE: basic audio editor 2008/09/17 16:56:33 (permalink)
    Audacity.

    Audacity is free, but very, very good.
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    Philip
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    RE: basic audio editor 2008/09/17 22:32:30 (permalink)
    Consider Sony Sound Forge (includes CD Architect); but it may be 1-2 hundred $mackers.
    But it deals with auto-clean-ups of audios quite well, pops, crackles, etc. You can use many of its VSTs in S7 as well (which is what I do) ... for clean-up.

    Also consider S7/Sonitis VSTs that have compressor gates (for low level noises)

    Also consider S7 Equilizers if you can sweep the frequency of the 'noise', to reduce, etc.

    Philip  
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    RE: basic audio editor 2008/09/18 13:43:55 (permalink)
    Sound Forge may still offer a demo that actually allows saving files -- that was true as of Version 7. You could download the demo and try it on your live recordings. I don't know if the demo gives you access to Noise Reduction, which is a separate tool (a mini-program you load separately).

    Philip is correct that it is a great program for removing noise.
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    RE: basic audio editor 2008/09/18 14:27:38 (permalink)
    Ive been using Sound Forge for years and it works great.

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    bitflipper
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    RE: basic audio editor 2008/09/18 14:46:47 (permalink)
    I try not to give any money to Sony if I have a choice. I'm still pissed off about the rootkit fiasco. So I use Adobe Audition instead, which does everything Sound Forge does for about the same price. It's very good for removing noise and surgical editing.


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    RE: basic audio editor 2008/09/19 01:52:01 (permalink)
    I've been using the free copy of Cool Edit Pro I've had for over 10 years now. It's been "enhanced" and repackaged by Adobe as Audition, of course, but the old Syntrillium version still works relatively well (it developed an unknown bug on startup a few years ago that pops up an annoying dialog that must be canceled on startup), and has all the features I need in an audio editor.

    You'll find it available for download in places like Rapidshare.com, which are usually the repositories of warez sites, and not for the weak of heart or the technically challenged.



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