22 May
2012
22 May
'12
3:57 p.m.
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 06:36 -0400, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:36 AM, david
<gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Audacity has a noise removal feature that lets
you select a
few seconds of what you consider noise, and identify that to
the program as noise. A good spot for me is areas in a
recording that are supposed to be silent but generally aren't
if you're recording mic input live. Then you select the whole
track and run the noise removal on it. Works well enough for
me.
As I mentioned above, unless they have made sudden huge leaps in
quality of their noise reduction process it isn't really a good
quality tool. I know from conversations with Ricardus some of his
uses and they are similar to what I have done in the past as well, for
example restoring old analog recordings, etc. Where depending on the
source material you have to have a pretty dang minimal artifact
experience(Recordings of high dynamic range classical music for
example), and also depending on the source material the exact needs
may change over time, requiring automation to use effectively.
Neither of these applied in my experience with Audacity's tool.
Yes. Thank you.
I mentioned the idea of a Kickstarter campaign to fund development of
some decent plugins a few weeks ago in the Open Source Musicians forum,
and on linuxDSP's KVR forum, and it had some traction.
I have no idea if any of the DSP programmers qualified to develop such
plugs are interested, but it would be useful to know how much money we
would have to raise on Kickstarter, to make it viable for them.
Rich...