Re: [LAU] denoising audio files

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

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