Drat,being in the states,I always miss timely matters.Glad the show worked out.
I like ClickRepair for removing unwanted noise. I have found nothing at all that compares to this program's ability to almost completely get rid of clicks and pops, *without* attenuating high frequencies. Simply amazing, and that's just using the default settings.
HairerSoft's Amadeus II, which has a Fast Fourier Transform de-noising filter that does a tremendous job of getting rid of the remaining hiss left behind from ClickRepair, I thought I was listening to a re-mastered CD. (OK, a bit of EQ was needed also!) I think the FFT algorithm works so well in this case *because* it doesn't have the sharp transients from clicks and pops to deal with so it can concentrate on the finer noise left behind. After choosing a sample of the noise, for example the lead-in to the first song on the album side, apply "suppress noise" to the entire recording. Some testing may be needed to choose between short vs. long FFT and peaked vs. smooth noise type, because it depends upon the nature of the music being processed.
I've found that the Short FFT algorithm, Peaked noise type, and setting the Adaptive Filtering Sensitivity Enhancement to 0.00001% (this adjustment doesn't seem to do much if anything anyway) seems to leave very fine low-level reverb in quiet passages mostly intact - a *very* difficult thing to do, but I think it has a lot to do with the clean-up job that ClickRepair does. |