Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Hey Greg,

Do you have a website for Master Restoration?

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On Aug 11, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Gregory Anderson wrote:

> Logic has a Denoiser under "Specialized" menu, but I haven't had
> great results with it. I use Wave Arts' Master Restoration (MR)
> Suite for my speech research stuff and have had great results with
> it. I don't know the mechanism used by Logic's built-in denoiser,
> but MR Noise functions kind of like a multiband compressor/gate with
> a learn function so it knows what frequency bands to gate/attenuate
> at what thresholds. I'm pretty sure both are very different from
> what your engineer friend does.
>
> The built-in Match EQ has a learn function, so you could use that to
> create a frequency response curve that negates the spectrum of the
> noise. I've never used it for that purpose, but have used it to try
> to emulate the spectrum of a voice or a mix, and have never come up
> with anything usable.
>
> I am not the most informed on this topic, but I don't know of any
> noise reduction plugins that use a phase inversion technique like you
> mention, but if you just want to repair noisy recordings, I would
> recommend something like Master Restoration, regardless of the method
> used.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Gregory
>
> On Aug 11, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Tim McLane wrote:
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> > I have a friend who is an audio engineer who explained to me a  
> showed
> > me that to clean up some recordings, he samples the noise at the
> > beginning of the track or sample ---usually AC noise---and then uses
> > some kind of phase reversal to cancel that noise out. In other  
> words,
> > after this procedure, the noise is gone and the track is much
> > cleaner. It is even used on old 78 or 33 1/3rd LPs when transferring
> > them to CD. I do a lot of transfers from cassette to CD and they are
> > so dirty, it's horrible.
> >
> > Do we have or can we use anything like that in any one of Logic's
> > samplers or plug-ins?
> >
> > Tim McLane
> > timmclane@...
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Tim McLane
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