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[Alécio Costa - Brazil]

Hi friends,
I have just organized/auditioned a 20 song CD compilation that soon is gonna become a "document CD" for museums, thaters, schools.

My client sent me CDs, old 1/2 tapes with all the problems possible. wow, flutter, some acetate masters poorly transferred to CD-R and or that old 1/4 tape. We endedp up with the less problematic wow/flutter tracks ( No Cedar here)  

First I had to correct tuning. Most was under 442 HZ, so Serato Pitch in time helped me a lot with minimum artifacts. A conductor came here and we corrected that together.

so, some questions to you my gurus:

a)I am  really lost in which level must I "cut" this stuff, oncesome songs are  L1/L2 crappy mastered  from circa 1997, a few songs from acetate vynil, some old SW (short wave) radio  transmissions, a few songs will need some cleaning, de-crackling.

b) Dither: I generally use P-ower level 3, but based on Bob  and Brads comments, I do need to re-evaluate. So which do you guys mostly use for this kind of job? (OK, I might use ears)


c) Since it is a budget limited stuff, probably I will have to go with Waves Restoration Kit.
I cleaned just one song, the worst/noisiest in the compilation but  I really expected more from the waves package.  I will study it more.
What other tools would you recommend me? SOund forge?  

d) I have read that is advised to do gentle 2 passes with waves x-noise, x-hum insted of cascading everything with extreme settings. Any other tips?

Thanks in Advance

[Alécio Costa - Brazil]

X noise is pretty nice, better than DINRR in my opinion. However, X-click and X-crackle ...

[M4R10]

try the sonic solutions noise reduction plug in

[Level]

Alecio, if you would like to send some of them to me via either ftp or messenger, I would be happy to have a go at it (no charge of course) and let you know what I did and share the info..if it would help. We used to use one of the messingers a while back did we not? I have to hear it to employ the proper tools and settings and may need to go back to analog.

Let me know!

[Alécio Costa - Brazil]

HI Bud!
MAny thanks for your kind attention as always!

I endeded up using Waves Restoration Kit.

I really enjoyed X-noise module but X-click and X-Crack just did not do the proper job.

There were too many horrible recordings circa 1950.

The material was seriously damaged, I think NO NOISE would be required to do a proper job, or the whole Sonic Soultions systems.

Some recordings were cut to acetate at that time and poorly transferred to some crappy, i mean very crappy digital system, as if it were injected into a soundblaster or similar.  


I did all I could, processed with some Lexiverbs. There was nasty distortion everywhere, I had to use severe eqing, it was a big tiring job, pro tooling all the time.

[OTR-jkl]

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There was nasty distortion everywhere, I had to use severe eqing, it was a big tiring job

Sounds like a normal day at the office to me...!!!      

[Bob Olhsson]

Just about all of the restoration tools tend to be less successful than one might hope. On one hand they are a miracle but they also have a way of always seeming to come up short. On the other hand you can luck out and have them improve things dramatically.

The tools I hear the best things about consistently are the Cedar products. I suspect the best approach is to have them all to try.

[Alécio Costa - Brazil]

many thanks, guys. I ended up the job, its is pretty reasonable.

[Martin Schiff]

Try Diamond Cut Audio DC6 from www.tracertek.com. It is way better than the Sonic Foundry noise reduction tools. It is magic what it can do with some problems.

-- Martin