not to disagree...but maybe I'm using it wrong
I have Sonic Foundry's noise reduction also, but had never tried it too much until you guys reccomended it here. I thought I would give it a shot, and used the default mode ( said to give the best results, I beleive it was mode 0 ) and tried it on a song that had some serious tape hiss. I had a big chunk of hiss to sample from at the beginning of the tape before the song started, about 4 seconds worth. The song starts with just a kick and snare. After getting the noise print, I used about 12db of reduction (default). Hiss was minimal, but the snare sound was crap. Am I using the wrong mode?
I went back to RayGun, just to compare. Without any adjustments except moving the NR slider down about 7db, I got better noise reduction with very minimal affect on the snare. Maybe you guys can show me what I'm doing wrong with the Sound Forge plugin. Do you have any favorite modes to use?
As I stated in the previous post, I have also had good results in WaveLab by analyzing the noise, then using Waves EQ to make a notch filter to quiet the offensive parts, and fine tuning by adjusting the Q. My only point originally was that if you haven't tried RayGun, you might be pleasantly surprised.