Hiss Reduction

[Boots]

Has anyone noticed weird "chimes" or "dings" when they use the Hiss Reduction or Clip/Pop Eliminator?

I transferred a recording done on a Porta02 through my computer using CE2000 and tried to remove the "analog hiss" from the recording. When I used the hiss reduction weird "chimes" and "dings" suddenly appeared throughout the recording.

After playing around with the hiss reduction for a long while, I then tried the Clip/Pop Eliminator and experienced the same thing. I eventually used the noise reduction to remove the "hiss" as-good-as possible without loosing to much sound quality.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone else had this happen to them?

Scott.

 

[Track Rat]

Oh yea. The chirps and tinkles are an artifact left over from the process. You can play with the settings to minimize it but to my ears, I'd rather live with the hiss. Reverb tails and fades are where you'll hear it the most.

 

[Boots]

Yep, that's where I noticed them too. I wonder if there is a better hiss reducer?

 

[Track Rat]

SoundForges noise reduction is far superior IMHO, but any plug in noise reducer can do naughty things to audio.

 

[Boots]

Thanks, will try it out.

 

[demensia]

Steinberg Clean cleans hiss, rumble, and humming up pretty well..
It will also normalize all the tracks to be burnt on cd to the same level.