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Post by steverussel on Oct 12, 2023 10:21:42 GMT
In these days where disc space and bandwith are a hundred times as cheap as they once were, you might as well go for wav files, 44.1 or 48. There's also a neat trick to reduce the noise. With an editing program you select a bit of silence, so that is a sample of JUST the noise. The program then subtracts that from the proper audio. No no no, this is a really horrible way of reducing sound and leaves lots of horrible artifacts. Maybe it was good 20 years ago, but there are a lot of better ways of doing this now. It's a quick easy fix that sounds impressive at first glance, but it makes the audio sound really strange and unnatural. I agree. Unless you have in-band interference then don't even think about this as a solution.
If you've got pure speech to clean up then I suggest using the on-line tool: Adobe Podcast AI (it's free!) |
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Post by garygraham on Oct 12, 2023 11:55:52 GMT
The copyright holder won’t take MP3s I’ve tried … In these days where disc space and bandwith are a hundred times as cheap as they once were, you might as well go for wav files, 44.1 or 48. There's also a neat trick to reduce the noise. With an editing program you select a bit of silence, so that is a sample of JUST the noise. The program then subtracts that from the proper audio. True. No reason not to use wav or flac if transferring now. The MP3s were made for reference in 2009 in a straight run through of hundreds of cassette tapes and stored on data DVD. With a view to making better transfers of anything interesting in the future. Some cassette recorders from that era seem to have had slightly mis-aligned heads. So a tweak of the head now can help if that's possible. |
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 26, 2023 14:01:09 GMT
I agree. Unless you have in-band interference then don't even think about this as a solution. If you've got pure speech to clean up then I suggest using the on-line tool: Adobe Podcast AI (it's free!) Adobe Podcast is not a restoration tool, it will produce results that don’t sound like the person speaking, and it doesn’t work on music or sound effects. Frankly, I think it’s a horrible app. |
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