Remaster and Sound Cleanup

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jshollis
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2011/03/09 23:20:16 (permalink)

Remaster and Sound Cleanup

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Which Cakewalk software is best suited to take mp3's and clean up the sound? Also what software is best used in "remastering" commercial mp3's from LP's and CD's? 
 
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    57Gregy
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    Re:Remaster and Sound Cleanup 2011/03/09 23:43:46 (permalink)
    I think THIS might do what you want.
    I don't have it, and there may be alternatives.

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    jshollis
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    Re:Remaster and Sound Cleanup 2011/03/10 00:10:03 (permalink)
    Greg,
     
    Are there some music samples from users who've used Cakewalk software to make their music?  I was just given Music Creator 5 and I'd like to see what it's capable of if I could hear finished product from someone.
     
     
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    Re:Remaster and Sound Cleanup 2011/03/10 08:31:05 (permalink)
    JS...

    Any of the cake products including MC5 will do this for you. I took some old cassette tapes and used MC with Ozone to put the life back in them and I think they ended up sounding better than the original... more bass, more punch, crispy highs.....

    HOWEVER..... If you are working with MP3's understand that you are working with a lower resolution file to begin with, and when you start working on it and bouncing it you will be loosing even more. If you can work with Wave files as a starting point you'll be OK. Even the best MP3 resolution is not what you want to start with.

    There is also the question about what exactly you mean by "clean up the sound".  MP3's are digital, and it's pretty much not going to degrade like a tape would with time and use.



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    Re:Remaster and Sound Cleanup 2011/03/10 08:58:15 (permalink)
    you want to look at interfaces for recording LP's and cleaning them up..you might be able to achieve this by your mic jack on your computer.youll need some cables to run from you record player into your computer.mc5 is a good daw to start out on.the help file will be your life line.just hang in and read these forums.

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    Re:Remaster and Sound Cleanup 2011/03/10 10:15:18 (permalink)
    What you do not want to do anywhere in the cleanup process is convert the MP3 to a wave, and then back to MP3.

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    Re:Remaster and Sound Cleanup 2011/03/10 10:55:25 (permalink)
    Most of us have links to our music sites in our signatures. Many of my older songs were recorded on MC 2003 or MC Pro 24, but my newest songs were recorded on SONAR Home Studio 6.
    Music Creator is mainly a recording studio program, not specifically for editing and fixing music from other audio sources. It can do a good job of making those old tracks sound better, like Guitarhacker wrote, but Pyro is made specifically to fix and edit audio from those old sources.

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    Re:Remaster and Sound Cleanup 2011/03/10 10:59:52 (permalink)
    MP3's are harder to "clean up" than wave files in that they are compressed, plus Commercial CD' are not in MP3 format they are wave files. I would have to know a little bit more about what you are attempting to give good advice.

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