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On 05/22/2012 09:59 AM, Ricardus Vincente wrote:

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> On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:43 -1000, david wrote:

>

>>> As I mentioned above, unless they have made sudden huge leaps in quality

>>> of their noise reduction process it isn't really a good quality tool.  I

>>> know from conversations with Ricardus some of his uses and they are

>>> similar to what I have done in the past as well, for example restoring

>>> old analog recordings, etc.  Where depending on the source material you

>>> have to have a pretty dang minimal artifact experience(Recordings of

>>> high dynamic range classical music for example), and also depending on

>>> the source material the exact needs may change over time, requiring

>>> automation to use effectively.  Neither of these applied in my

>>> experience with Audacity's tool.

>>

>> High dynamic range classical music was exactly what a friend of mine was

>> working with. First step was extremely-well-cleaned vinyl. He recorded

>> them from a high-end turntable through an Audiophile 2496. Then cleaned

>> in gnome wave cleaner. I've heard the digitized versions, and there is

>> no noise in them ...

>

>   I have HEARD examples of Gnome Wave Cleaner doing some good work, but I

> have never been able to get it to yield results like the demos I have

> heard. It also crashes on large files for me. It wouldn't even load the

> 45 minute live-music sets that I attempted to use it on.

Hmmm - maybe export shorter parts of the 45-minute sets and test it on them?
--

David

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