Any sound engineers amonst us?

Phil Reynolds

Phil Reynolds

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Ok, it's nothing to do with Gs's, ......but, are you a sound engineer? coz if you are, I need you. I've got some cassette tape recordings of my kids reading bedtime stories that have lots of background noise on (due to using the only cheapy recorder that we had at the time).

Can they be 'filtered' so that we lose the background noise? - if so, how do I go about it, or who can I send them to?

Any info would be much appreciated. :thumb

Ta,

Phil
 
Phil.....not a sound engineer but there are programmes that filter noise quite happily to a pretty good level...I can't remember what it was that I used but about 18 months ago I plugged my record deck into my new Audigy sound card and using one of these standard bits of software, it automatically cleared up some his and a regular 'clickwhirrr' that came from a scratch.

I'll do a search and see If I can find out what it was......all you'd need to do is plug a cassette player into your input on the sound card then run the prog.....

HTH

Bill
 
Lol...here ya go, a fully functional trial bit of software that says it will do what you want....

http://www.goldwave.com/

Apparently you'd need a registration number to unlock it permanently.

That'll be another 60 seconds work then ;)
 
Thanks young Billiam, I've had a quick look, and it looks far too technical for and old fart like me :rolleyes:

Phil
 
Used to work with sound equipment before earning my living as a singer, and still do produce and engineer recordings when I have time. Steinberg"s "Clean" is a good programm and not that difficult to use. The main task is to record your original tape onto a digital medium (at the highest possible level), then you can download it onto a PC for "doctoring";this is better than applying any filtering to the analogue original. I am in New York until Oct.23, but may have time to assist when I'm back. If you're interested, e-mail me ([email protected]) :thumb
 
That's sound advice from Mad tenor, if you'll pardon the pun :o
I've been doing a bit of tape restoration recently, using a (fairly) simple little program called DC-Art Millennium. I think it costs about 30 quid if you download the full working version. I've been getting some very good results, although I've never used any of the other software mentioned in this thread, so I can't compare...

You can check it out at http://www.enhancedaudio.com
Good luck with the project...
 
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