Re: Cassette audio cleanup
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Nov 11 2015 23:03:09
DM> If there aren't too many pops, you can actually select the click in
DM> Audacity and use the "Repair" effect in Audacity. I think it's mainly
DM> intended for digital distortion, but I've used it to repair analog clicks
DM> and pops successfully too. The trick is you have to really zoom way in one
DM> the wave form and choose just the pop/clip portion to repair. If you
DM> select too wide of a portion of the audio (more 128 samples), the effect
DM> won't do anything but display an error to you.
DM> With regard to drop-outs, you could probably use the opposite channel
DM> audio to possible fill in the missing "level" in the affect channel, but
DM> it'll still probably sound a little odd (especially with headphones).
Thanks for the reply and tips. I'll give Audacity's "Repair" effect a try.
I'll have to tinker with ways to fill in the drop-outs.
DM> Pro-Audio might be the better message area to talk about this subject, but
DM> it does interest me.
Ah, I suppose that makes sense. I was looking through the sub-boards to decide
where to post this, and my eyes must have missed pro-audio. I was thinking
there was a music-related sub-board on dove-net but didn't remember which one
it was.
Nightfox
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