Hi Gary. Well of course I'm limited with wave forms. I think that's a problem with all such software. However, you do have built-in choices for the kind of noise that you want to reduce, and presets which allow you to work with the sound with what is quite honestly trial and error. However, the original sound is always saved, so you can mess around a bit without worrying. The kind of noise that I work with is surface noise from 78s, often with homemade recordings from back when people owned machines that recorded on 78s. I know the presets that I need for such recordings and apply them. When it comes to reducing cassette hiss, there are 4 different presets ranging from light to heavy handed and including everything in between which are clearly spoken and work extremely well with speech. You can also adjust those settings with your own variations and save them, much as you can in GoldWave.
I also use Dc6 a lot for recording. It's quick and simple to set up. And if you screw up the recoring somehow and want to start over, you just hit altF4 and the program prompts you with speech, asking if you want to delete the current recording. As I said, fast, easy and painless. For recording ease alone the app is worth it to me. Now, as a Sound Forge user, can you tell me how to go about reducing vinyl pops clicks and other anomalies using Sound Forge? It's probably me, but I'm not getting it. All i see is a choice that calls itself audio restoration and offers 2 different choices for restoring. By the way, I have Window-eyes 6.1 and Jaws 8. Would scripts help? If so, where do I get them and what in the world do I do with them once I have them? Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary G Schindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:51 PM Subject: Re: Goldwave Audio Editor usually you have to buy the soundforge noise reduction plugin separately, I think it may be bundled with version 9. How do you use the editor in DC 6? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 11:29 AM Subject: Re: Goldwave Audio Editor My biggest knock on Sound Forge is that it is, as others have pointed out, so overloaded with features that try to be everybody's everything. Still, I purchased version 8.0 sometime back and would like to get all I can from it. Can you tell me where to find its noise reduction features and how to work with them? As for DC 6, my only criticism would be the manual's inaccessibility.I Haven't had a lot of trouble in getting around the program. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary G Schindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:37 AM Subject: Re: Goldwave Audio Editor the biggest complaint I have about Goldwave is that the noise reduction isn't very good at all. Soundforge is much better in this respect. I used to like the Diamond Cut programs for noise reduction too, but for editing files for a blind person was and probably still is difficult. if studio recorder from APH had some kind of noise reduction, I might have sprung for it, but it is pricy, so if I am going to shell out money, I'll buy soundforge again. wavepad does some nice things too, but seemed rather limited in what it does do so I quit using it. I thought it could be a little easier to do basic editing functions with it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: Goldwave Audio Editor Ok, well I'm very impressed with this editing package and in a lot of ways I believe Goldwave to be more functional and practical than Sound Forge ever was or probably is ever likely to be, the layout of the manual is very well done and easy to get around. I went to the site at http://www.goldwave.com but I couldn't find a purchase price anywhere and (to my slight annoyance) it seems that Goldwave INC won't take paypal <damn!> but if its a fair price then I'll save to purchase this. ****************************** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia Phone +613 9747 3975 Voiceover Tech Support +613 8732 9237 Fax +613 9743 7954 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: callto:grtdane12 ******************************* Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
