Hi!
I'd use ecasound for recording. It's command-line as well. But for recording
you could stick to Ken's suggestions as well.
If you'd like to enhanced your recordings: Well I did some nice denoising
with csound and its utilities. the same goes for a bit of compression and
balancing of channel volume. For finding clicks I believe your best bet might
be some wave-edititor with graphical display of the recorded sound so you can
SEE the peaks of the clicks and do something against them.
good idea for old media is a nice equaliser/notch filter for the 50/60Hz
buzzing. That you can have with every ladspa host.
Kindest regards
Julien
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