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louzucaro
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Yeah, I think SF9 is multi-channel if you have a multi-channel sound card. Otherwise, I think it's still stereo-only.
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Rob Ellis
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| BTW Jeffrey, thanks for posting a photo of your settings on the Adobe compressor. Very helpful. |
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| bobsouer wrote: | | The noise reduction plug-in alone normally retails for more than the upgrade price for Sound Forge 9.) |
If I can interject here again, noise reduction passes are really really bad. They add warbling and artifacting and seriously degrade the quality of your audio, regardless of how good they are. If you have so much noise in your line that you need to run a NR pass, you have a problem that needs ironing out electronically.
ok, back to your regularly scheduled thread.
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Yoda117
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I'm with Jeff on that last comment. The artifacts generated by most noise reduction filters are worse than just about anything else out there. If you need to use one, then you're better off figuring out what the cause is and eliminating it, rather than using the filter.
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sdelgo
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The correct use for NR was when recording to tape and the whole encoding/decoding the noise floor to get a better dynamic range... there should be no need for noise reduction in the digital realm as stated above. If there is alot of hiss in the recording then there are some sloppy preamps being used and the need to upgrade to a Class A type. If there is background noise, then acoustical treatment of some kind is in order. A basic recording step by step would be...
1. Record material as clean as possible
2. corrective EQ
3. compression (if needed)
4. shaping EQ
5. mastering
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louzucaro
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Just wanted to say thank you again to everybody who posted info in this thread...I got my copy of Audition yesterday and the information here was invaluable...finally ending up with audio files that sound like I've been expecting them to sound.
You all rock!!
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louzucaro
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For me, it wasn't escaping the world of Pro Tools as much as it was escaping the world of no tools!
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Frank F
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Let's not go there and say we didn't. ProTools, Adobe Audition, Sony Vegas, Sound Forge, etc. are DAW programs which give the desired result when understood and used properly.
Use what you have (when speaking and working with DAW's) - you will get the results you desire in many cases.
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bobsouer
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Frank,
Very well said. I use Sound Forge, Vegas and Pro Tools, all in Windows. At the office we have Pro Tools on Macs. I even use Audacity on my Linux workstation. Each has its strengths and weaknesses.
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Deirdre
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| Frank F wrote: | Let's not go there and say we didn't. ProTools, Adobe Audition, Sony Vegas, Sound Forge, etc. are DAW programs which give the desired result when understood and used properly.
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Thank you, Frank.
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