07-03-2003, 06:36 AM
Roxio (formerly Adaptec) has a CD creation suite that includes a pretty good application for doing vinyl.
Disclaimer: I used version 4, when it was still Adaptec, and it worked very well then. No guarantee that the new version works as well as the old version
Here's a link to the info on the product: Easy CD & DVD Creator 6
A few notes. The click/pop/hiss filters work okay, and help old records a lot, BUT don't crank the filter up too high. It can make the sound too "flat".
If you're really fussy, and are ready to spend the time, a record with bad clicks and pops can be cleaned up really well manually. I found it best to work with a first generation wav file, and play it to the click. Pause the playback, zoom in on the location where the click is, select the click and do an "Insert Silence". Since the time is so short, you won't even notice where a small fraction of a second of the sound has been removed. Do NOT "Delete" the selection, since that will mess up the timing a bit and is more noticeable than silence.
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Disclaimer: I used version 4, when it was still Adaptec, and it worked very well then. No guarantee that the new version works as well as the old version
Here's a link to the info on the product: Easy CD & DVD Creator 6
A few notes. The click/pop/hiss filters work okay, and help old records a lot, BUT don't crank the filter up too high. It can make the sound too "flat".
If you're really fussy, and are ready to spend the time, a record with bad clicks and pops can be cleaned up really well manually. I found it best to work with a first generation wav file, and play it to the click. Pause the playback, zoom in on the location where the click is, select the click and do an "Insert Silence". Since the time is so short, you won't even notice where a small fraction of a second of the sound has been removed. Do NOT "Delete" the selection, since that will mess up the timing a bit and is more noticeable than silence.
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