recording lps to CD - Beyond Tiki

T tikibars Tiki Socialite Aku Hall, Chicago Joined: Apr 11, 2002 Posts: 2034	T tikibars Posted posted on Tue, Oct 7, 2003 12:04 PM The Pros who restore vintage recordings and other important audio use two main systems: Sonic Solutions and CEDAR. Unfortunately, these will set you back a minimum of $10K each. Slightly less pricey is Pro Tools, which doesn't remove clicks, pops, scratches, and surface noise per se, but you can get plug-in software for it that does... but not quite as well as Sonic or CEDAR. Anything other than those three is purely in the consumer realm, and frankly is probably going to do more harm than good to your source material. I like to go in and pull out a few of the biggest, worst pops and crackles manually (using a pro-sumer application called PEAK), and just live with the rest of the clicks. That's vinyl... The programs that automate these processes and try to pull out ALL of the anomolies aren't quite 'smart' enough to determine the good material from the bad, and usually end up making things worse. [ Edited by: tikibars on 2003-10-07 12:08 ]

The Pros who restore vintage recordings and other important audio use two main systems: Sonic Solutions and CEDAR. Unfortunately, these will set you back a minimum of $10K each.

Slightly less pricey is Pro Tools, which doesn't remove clicks, pops, scratches, and surface noise per se, but you can get plug-in software for it that does... but not quite as well as Sonic or CEDAR.

Anything other than those three is purely in the consumer realm, and frankly is probably going to do more harm than good to your source material.

I like to go in and pull out a few of the biggest, worst pops and crackles manually (using a pro-sumer application called PEAK), and just live with the rest of the clicks. That's vinyl... The programs that automate these processes and try to pull out ALL of the anomolies aren't quite 'smart' enough to determine the good material from the bad, and usually end up making things worse.

[ Edited by: tikibars on 2003-10-07 12:08 ]

Post #54136 by tikibars on Tue, Oct 7, 2003 12:04 PM