Fixing old recordings

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Hello, All.

I have some old recordings that I captured using cubasis 4. While some of them turned out to be quite loud and very clear recordings, others seemed to be somewhat quiet and scratchy. I would really like to take these scratchy recordings and make them sound as clear as possible. Is there anyway do to this using cubasis. I guess this procedure would be considered as mastering, but i'm not sure because i'm still a newbie. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

-Refreshe
 
Possibly some noise reduction and compression could get the levels up and eliminate the scratchiness (if by scratchy you mean noise).
 
Sonic Foundry has noise reduction plug in's designed to help remove everything from scratches on records, to constant noises like line hum, electrical noise, and the like. I have them, but havn't used them personally, but I hear that they are pretty good.

Then do some mastering to the soft dull ones to bring them back to life.
 
where do I go to do noise reduction in cubasis? How did you get that awsome gif animation for your avatar. I thought that you could only use the ones they give you.
 
If you want the noise reduction plug in's you'd have to purchase them first from Sonic Foundry. I don't know if Cubasis has an noise reduction stuff built in.
 
Actually if cost is a big deal, you might want to check out KVR and see if someone has some free ones you could download and try. They probably wouldn't be the same quality, but for free...heck any improvment for free is good.
 
Refreshe said:
How did you get that awsome gif animation for your avatar. I thought that you could only use the ones they give you.
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Make another 242 posts and you will be able to upload your own.
I created my own using Paint Shop Pro 8 and Animation Shop 3.
Did a little modification to the Media Player 9 skin "Headspace" and added the wave animation to it.

For noise reduction ... I use the Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction ver.2 plugin.

-Edit- Nuendo has the DeNoiser plugin .... not sure if Cubase does. :confused:
 
Looks like i'm going to have to get a whole new software package for repairing damaged tracks then :(
I've never worked with sonic foundry, I hope it works out for me. Should I just go to a computer store and ask about sonic foundry? By the way, whats the maxium file size you can have for uploading your own avatar?
 
The maximum size of your custom image is 60 by 60 pixels or 14.6 KB.....

Check out Acid Here .
Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction can be found Here among other places. Google can turn up many results.

-Ken
 
I don't think i'm quite getting it.... So Sonic Foundry is a plugin that you use with cubase?

14.6K!!!! oh the possibilities.
 
Yes .... Sonic Foundry's Noise Reduction ver. 2 is a Direct X Plugin.
You use it just as you would use any other effect. It's pretty much like a noise gate, eliminating all sounds below whatever threshold (db level) you set.
 
audio cleaning lab

It has saved me a lot of time to fix up the uglies. auto analizing and simple MAGIX
 
Yeah, noise reduction and de-clickers etc. can be used, but use very carefully as you can loose alot of the sound from putting too much effect on. Use as little as possible i would say. And finally, if you are serious about your recordings you are probably best taking them to a digital remastering suite where the pros can fix it.
 
I was checking out sound forge 7 on my friends computer, and there was an effect called the noise gate. Does this essentially to the same thing as the noise reduction plugin you speak of? Furthermore, is the noise reduction plugin work on sound forge 7. If so I might just buy the plug in and go work on my friends computer.
 
The noise reduction plugin will work on any computer and in any program that supports DirectX plugins.
You could give the noise gate a shot. What it does is turn low level sounds to absolute silence, so it takes some playing with the settings to get the desired effect of eliminating unwanted noise yet retaining low level transients, all without making it to obvious.
 
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