get rid of hissing??

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Leeking

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Hi guys,

I am doing a project for a sketch that require background music.

Most of the music I recorded with cakewalk9 are from old cassettes..... the music has that "tape" sound and heavy hissing.

How can I get rid of the hissing? can the "noise reduction" feature in Cool Edit do the trick? can I used the compression in cakewalk9?

Please help. :)
 
LeeKing - the noise reduction feature of Cool Edit Pro will work, or why not try the Hiss Reduction, since that's what it's designed for? Sample a quiet section of the track with no music, and then apply the Hiss Reduction function to that - it should work as well as anything.
 
Steinberg's Clean! is good for this, too. I've used it a few times when transferring material from cassette to CD. Depends on the source material, though. Your efforts can sometimes be futile. Like, a girl that I was dating gave me a tape of her band to transfer to CD - the cassette was a few generations from the master, and duped on the lowest level consumer equipment imginable. The hiss made it almost unlistenable. After running it through Clean! TWICE, at 100% noise reduction both times, I was able to take a lot of the hiss out. But during the quiet portions, the music sounded terrible.
More recently, I was given a cassette of my father's old band, recorded and duplicated by my uncle on some real nice equipment. Just a slight bit of noise reduction, and the CD transfer sounded absolutely wonderful. In the first case, I made the material sound different. Not necessarily better. But in the second case, I think I improved the sound of the recording.

When recording in Cakewalk, I also sometimes like to export individual tracks into Clean! to take out a bit of the hiss. Used sparingly, I think Clean! is some really useful software.
 
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