REQ: Any freeware vinyl noise pop scratch filters out there?

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Tallis Travis Talbert said:
Maybe Audacity?
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Nah, thanks. I have audacity, but it just has a very rudimentary noise
filter, which usually warps the content fairly badly. I love Audacity
tho, great program, especially for the price!
 
Mister said:
Nah, thanks. I have audacity, but it just has a very rudimentary
noise filter, which usually warps the content fairly badly. I love
Audacity tho, great program, especially for the price!
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You would be hard put to use Audacity to clean vinyl as it requires you to
point to a sample of *only* the noise you want to remove...not something you
are likely to have in a vinyl recording.

There is no cleaner - paid or not - that won't distort the music unless its
parameters have been correctly set for the particular piece at hand.

I know of no free, dedicated cleaners. The most non-destructive cleaner I
know of is WaveRepair. It is also the one that can be most precisely tuned.
It is freeware for some functions but not for cleaning.
http://www.delback.co.uk/wavrep/

More info on cleaners in my dandies below...

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dadiOH said:
You would be hard put to use Audacity to clean vinyl as it requires you to
point to a sample of *only* the noise you want to remove...not something you
are likely to have in a vinyl recording.

There is no cleaner - paid or not - that won't distort the music unless its
parameters have been correctly set for the particular piece at hand.

I know of no free, dedicated cleaners. The most non-destructive cleaner I
know of is WaveRepair. It is also the one that can be most precisely tuned.
It is freeware for some functions but not for cleaning.
http://www.delback.co.uk/wavrep/

More info on cleaners in my dandies below...
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**Ahem**

GramoFile is a computer program, running under the Linux operating
system (and some other UNIX-like OSses -- and even DOS/Windows now!),
with the main goal of putting the sound of for example gramophone
records on CDs. It is able to record hours of CD quality music, split
long sound files in separate tracks, and **remove ticks and pops from
recordings>>. Integrated sound recording and playback (with customized
versions of brec(1) and bplay(1) by David Monro); Handling of large
sound files up to a few GB; Signal peak level meter during recording;
Playback of user-specifiable parts of sound files; Signal processing
through application of `filters'; Nine filters (filter types, actually)
are supplied, new ones can be added fairly easily; Multiple filters can
be used, in random order, in one single run - even multiple instances of
the same filter; Most filters can be fine-tuned through a number of
parameters (independent for each filter instance); A large sound file
containing an entire side of a gramophone record can be split into
separate sound files, one for each track; Signal processing and track
splitting are performed simultaneously; no temporary files are used at
all; Text mode user interface with a windows-like look and `feel'; Sound
files of the familiar .wav type are used, to allow easy interchange with
other programs; The program comes with extensive documentation
explaining the implemented filters and the track splitting.

On my Multimedia1 page or HERE:
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/gramo_w_1.6.zip ~263Kb

Cheers!

Son Of Spy
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Son said:
**Ahem**

GramoFile is a computer program...
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Cheers!

Son Of Spy

Thanks, it sounds like a useful program and a good one to know about.

Not a dedicated cleaner, though, and will need (as do all others) user
discretion and knowledge in using the filters.

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dadiOH
_____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
____________________________
 
Son said:
GramoFile is a computer program, running under the Linux operating
system (and some other UNIX-like OSses -- and even DOS/Windows now!),
with the main goal of putting the sound of for example gramophone
records on CDs. It is able to record hours of CD quality music, split
long sound files in separate tracks, and **remove ticks and pops from
recordings.
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Homepage here -
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/
GramoFile Home Page

In the news section of the site:

03 Jun 03: GramoFile featured on linmagau.org and subsequently on
Slashdot. Unfortunately, as you probably already noticed, I have
absolutely no time to do any further development on this, and
GramoFile-related e-mails have gone unanswered for about two years now.
If you want a version that is slightly newer, check the Debian package.

It's a pity that it isn't developed anymore. Being open source someone
could pick it up. There are several patches made by others but only for
the linux version.

For those on Linux here is a program:

http://gwc.sourceforge.net/
Gnome Wave Cleaner from Redhawk.org

dM
 
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