December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 35m
English
Inexpensive Digital Noise Reduction |
Shane Rettig |
For sound designers with modest computer-based digital audio setups, digital noise reduction requires an expensive investment in high-end software from companies such as Digidesign. However, anyone who has internet access can achieve quality noise reduction (removal of tape hiss, hum, etc.) using inexpensive shareware. One such program is SoundHack®, a Macintosh application written by Tom Erbe, faculty member at Cal Arts. SoundHack® performs a spectral analysis of an input file and resynthesizes elements of that file as an output file based on user-defined variables. In eliminating tape hiss, for example, SoundHack® identifies spectral components below a certain threshold and excludes them ...
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