Comments on: Remove Audio Noise from LPs, Cassettes, MP3s

By: Chris Proctor

Chris Proctor — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:55:38 +0000

Well, I can’t make heads or tails of Spin It Again. Maybe I didn’t try hard enough to figure it out, but … I’ll try something else. And, as it turns out, while I was looking for audio cleaners I stumbled upon exactly what Al up there was talking about, Magix Audio Editor. I’m seriously considering buying it. Seems it’s now $30 with $5 S/H when bought through the website. I think I just might do that. Thanks, Al.

My only alternative is to find new copies of all the songs that have been damaged, and I think it’s damn near impossible to do. I have some pretty obscure songs, songs you’ll never hear on the radio from artists you’ve never heard of, songs from bands that have probably long since disbanded.

Just for the record if anyone’s curious, here are some of the rare gems I need repaired:
-> Engrave – Recoil
-> Masters of Balance – Dreamworld
-> DJ Yan – Gear 3D
-> Raymond Wave – September
-> 303 Infinity – Liquid Bass
-> Electrostatic – Magnetic Pulse
-> Juno Reactor – High Energy Protons
For “Gear 3D” and “High Energy Protons”, I know that there are multiple mixes of the song, but I don’t remember the name of the mix I liked best.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:24:04 +0000

Magix Audio Editor is great and it’s 45$ i think. I clean audio all the time with it.

By: Coby

Coby — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:38:10 +0000

I use Cool Edit and Cool Edit Pro which is now Adobe Audition. Audition is expensive, but Cool Edit can be found for virtually free on the web. These programs are geared for professional users, but they can give great results.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:33:40 +0000

Just saw the video and found the blog.

I think if you have records especially that have got a bit of an age on them and you have some decent hardware, i would suggest to get some great needles, and some of the best leads you can get and connect to a DJ mixer to the pc. The higher quality the hardware the better the sound will be.
As Chris said check out the software via his blog that he mentioned in the film

on a side night i find it quiet ironic that vinyl is the last compressed of all music format and putting a side the size of vinyl, get really great needles and great equipment and it will sound as crisp as anything else.
I am a DJ, but i always loved music, i still buy vinyl albums and 7″ singles and i have always prefered them even to CD

By: George

George — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:52:16 +0000

I’d recommend Audacity. It’s 100% free, and has many, many, imbedded tools including a customizable declicking option. I run my USB turntable through it with great results.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:09:36 +0000

Good info! I use Nero WaveEditor that came with the Nero Package – comes with just about every version I know of. It has a noise reduction option (hisses) and crackles and pops are taken care of by “Declicker”. audacity…maybe? hey, it’s free. also i run my turntable (from the 70’s) through an amplifier that you can adjust the bass and treble with, and filter the hisses and stuff like that. the better the needle – the much better it is. with cassettes, you can use Nero waveeditor and before hand see if your tape player has any equalizers
hope this means anything :)

By: Chris Proctor

Chris Proctor — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:19:27 +0000

Thanks for the time you spent on my topic on your live service, Chris. I appreciate it. I’m going to try Spin It Again. Also, I already have a free version of WavePad that I’m pretty happy with, but I don’t have the version that will let me use the hiss and pop removal tool. The only qualm I have with the response is that the vinyl LP’s and cassettes are irrelevant to me. I’m sure that helps somebody else, so that’s cool, but I’m only interested in CD to MP3 fixes. But thanks, though, to you and to all who have responded so far. I’ll give this stuff a shot.

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