Hi All. Thanks so much for your fantastically helpful responses on my licensing question. I haven't yet moved to the new laptop, but I'm having a bit of trouble on the old one.
For the past week I've been editing together a podcast. I finished it yesterday and, prior to saving it, everything was fine. I wasn't aware of changing anything within the file content after the point at which I checked it, but when I opened it today to listen to it all the way through I found that parts of the vocals were distorted and there was a hiss present which hadn't been there before (not a permanent one like one which comes from recording, but a temporary one which sounds a bit like a radio being tuned in or wind blowing around a big house ... but obviously quieter). With sighted assistance I was able to observe that there may be some issue with the stereo mix, but I've tried every possible combination of 0% and 100% on the four channel options and none of them have brought a perfect result (although a couple certainly improved it a bit). I've tried hiss removal etc, and even some of the equaliser options, but none of them have taken the file back to what it was before. Presuming that the intermittent distortion and strange background noise aren't caused by any changes within the file, I'm wondering what else might have caused this? For example, can continually editing/re-saving a file affect the quality of the output? I have done this sort of thing before so don't believe that this is the case but thought it was worth asking. My stronger suspicion is that the lack of speed of my processor (it's a Celeron) may have lead to a poor quality saving of the file, which would also explain why some parts of the file are unharmed. Would this be a likely/possible reason for my problem? If there's something which I haven't yet thought of, any other suggestions would also be appreciated. As always any help will be very gratefully received, as this work took me a good length of time to produce and I don't have the original files so would have to record it all again. Cheers, Danny To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
