Hello all,
I am just getting into transfering my collection of 78's to digital. I
have
an Audio Technica AT-PL120 turntable with a stanton 500 cartridge and 2.7
mil eliptical stylus. (I'm sure this setup could be improved upon but
the
styli are expensive and I'm on a somewhat limited budget.)
I am running into a custom made preamp and then into my computer's
soundcard.
I am using Goldwave 5.12 to record the audio and perform the
editing/noise
reduction. What I am wondering is whether there is a better sounding
noise-reduction algorithm out there that I could be using.
The NR that Goldwave has can be configured and I am on the highest
quality
settings but if I mix it at 100% the noise goes away but the remaining
signal sounds mechanical and echoey. The best compromise is to set the
mix
at about 35% and live with some of the noise but I wonder if a more
complex
FFT or something like that with a better filter algorithm would be able
to
catch more of the noise while still leaving more of the original sound
intact, or at least not sound so mechanical.
If anyone has some experience using Goldwave or other software I would
appreciate your comments.
thanks,
Dave