Yes, I've heard a lot about Goldwave but never tried it yet, ah well  
it won't do any harm to add it to the "editor collection". The Sound  
Forge manual is a monster, when I last looked at it I think it was  
about 400 pages or more, anyone digested each and every page of it  
yet? I was considerably impressed with Wavepad too, been a while since  
I looked at it but I don't think it was too badly priced either.
Audasity should be worthwile investigating too if features available  
in 1.35 beta make it to the next official version.

On 02/03/2008, at 5:00 AM, Larry N wrote:

> Hi Billy. Interesting question. I have 4 sound editors onboard.  
> There's
> GoldWave, Sound Forge 8, DC 6 and WavePad. If you are asking about  
> simple
> ease of use, accessibility and a manual that is easy to understand  
> and set
> up in a way that can be accessed quickly, then GoldWave wins hands  
> down.
> However, there are tasks that DC6 performs better than any piece of  
> software
> that I've ever used. For instance, it has excellent hiss reduction and
> comprehensive noise reduction. The down side is that its manual is  
> difficult
> to use with speech.
>
> And Sound Forge? I truly feel that I get less out of it than I  
> probably
> should, simply due to a lack of understanding. For instance, Sound  
> Forge
> works with editable files which are made into and edited from what the
> program calls regions. What is a region? I'm not exactly sure, nor  
> am I
> certain how to go about creating one or editing the thing with  
> keyboard
> alone. Perhaps it is my own inability to understand, but none of the  
> Sound
> Forge faithful have been able to show me why this program is worth  
> its hefty
> price tag. I would still love to know how to take a recorded file,  
> such as
> that generated by a vinyl LP and edit out pops clicks and extraneous  
> noise,
> then burn it onto a CD using Sound Forge only. Others in this group  
> can do
> so, however I have not succeeded as yet.
>
> Meanwhile, with the exception of actually burning the CD, I can edit a
> project from start to finish using either GoldWave or DC6,
>
> To be entirely fair, I can perform some tasks more quickly while  
> using Sound
> Forge. It's equalizer is superior. Its general audio restoration  
> feature
> works quickly and for the most part reliably when applied to an  
> entire file.
> But I don't find the manual easy to use, so I'm sure I'm not getting  
> the
> most from the program.
>
> As for WavePad, that hasn't been discussed much here. I own a copy,  
> but to
> be honest, I haven't played with it a great deal as yet.
>
> Others will have their own ideas, but if I were buying my first  
> audio editor
> which could take me far beyond the beginner stage, I would choose  
> GoldWave.
>
> Hope this helps you in some small way.
>
> Larry
>
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>> hi guys,
>> what is the best sound editing software on the market today?.
>>
>> What is the basic differences between Gold Wave & SoundForge?,
>>
>> What are the latest versions of both pieces of software, and which  
>> is more
>> speech friendly?,
>> Billy
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