RE: [linux-audio-user] sound restoration software?

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Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] sound restoration software?
From: M. Edward Borasky (znmeb_AT_aracnet.com)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 01:18:15 EEST

If you know the DSP techniques you want to use, you can "roll your own" with
"sfront" -- it has everything you'll need. But if you need pre-packaged DSP,
I'm not aware of anything at the level of, say, CoolEdit 2000 with all the
plug-ins, that works on Linux and is "free". "sfront" can be found at
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu
> [mailto:owner-linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Bob
> Billson
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:14 AM
> To: linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu
> Subject: [linux-audio-user] sound restoration software?
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> Can anyone recommend a good Linux software for use in a sound restoration
> project?  I have some old recordings (tape and phonograph) which
> I digitized
> on my (Debian) Linux box.  The originals have very high levels of
> the usual
> hiss, pops, cracks, and drop-outs.  I would like to clean it as much as
> possible.
>
> I used gramofile to digitize the recordings.  It worked quite
> well for that.
> It did okay on the pops and cracks.  I'm sure more can be done.
> It doesn't
> do so well with the hiss and drop-outs.  I guess I need a sound
> file editor
> for this.
>
> I looked at the various software on the Linux Sound Apps site, but I'm not
> sure what is appropriate to start with.  The file size I'm
> working with is
> roughly 30 minutes of continuous audio.  The machine I have is plenty fast
> enough, has 256 MB RAM and lots of disk space.  What I need is the right
> software.  Recommendations and pointers are very welcome!
>
> Using Windows is not an option, although there is apparently good software
> out there.  Aside from the prohibitive cost, I'm 100%
> Microsoft-free around
> here.  (And have been since discovering Linux shortly before Red Hat 4.1.)
> I want to keep it that way. :-)
>
> Thanks very much for any advice!
>
>           bob
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