Re: [AV Media Matters] Audio Restoration Tool

[lists.rlhess@mindspring.com]

Paul,

I do not know about the Sonic Foundry software, but I have Samplitude 2496
and the DeClicker/DeCrackler plug in from Sek'd

http://www.sekd.com

Listeners continue to be amazed by the results of the stuff I put through
this program. How it compares with Sonic Foundry or Cedar is anyones guess,
but I think it should be on the list to consider. Red Roaster is a
lower-cost alternative. I upgraded to have more tracks, mostly.

Although if you're restoring something as culturally important as oeuvre of
Fred Waring, I would suggest that price should be no object.

The conservative in me suggests that archives should be distributed in
unprocessed as well as processed forms. I've been doing this with the
Canadian group, Stringband, who has been credited as a seminal influence in
the '70's in Canadian folk music...and who have become good friends of mine
through the process. I've done fourteen albums for this group all on Sek'd
software (but it's later material so requires (suggests??) less
processing). Two of the albums are now available from CDNow, Amazon.com,
etc. They album title is "Marie-Lynn Hammond & Vignettes" Alas, the
database folk misspelled the artist name to read "Maire-Lynn Hammond" which
I'm trying to get corrected.

I did two more challenging projects--one was a private archival restoration
of Gisele Mackenizie's Christmas album mostly from LP although two cuts
were from kinescopes! (The 1953 one had NO high end above about 3500Hz UGH).

The other one was from a 78 and it was Ted Weems and Elmo Tanner...that one
was done in DartPro 98 and it was amazing as well, although I prefer for
most work staying within the single environment of Samplitude rather than
switching between Samplitude and DartPro. I probably won't be upgrading
DartPro as the Sek'd DeClicker/DeCrackler is easier to use and less prone
to doing ugly things. The DeNoiser in Sek'd products is also good.

Anyway, I'm sure many of these tools are suitable for the application.

Good luck!

Cheers,

Richard

Good luck!

Cheers,

Richard

At 02:58 PM 12/21/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I know all about the CEDAR systems of audio restoration software however
>the full package runs about $18,000 a little more than my institution will
>pay.
>
>What does anyone know about the Noise Reduction software newly offerd by
>Sonic Foundry in Madision, WI?? Cost is $400-$500. I realize that it
>doesn't compare to CEDAR but is it worthwhile?
>Pete K.
>Peter T. Kiefer, Coordinator
>Fred Waring's America
>The Pennsylvania State University
>Special Services Building
>1127 Fox Hill Road
>University Park, PA 16803-1824
>(814)863-2911
>Email: ptk@psulias.psu.edu