Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

http://wavearts.com/products/suites/master-restoration/

They have a 30-day trial.

I am a preset user (read: not a fader tweaker), and having been using  
the "Light Clean" setting to get rid of the "white" noise that is  
killing audio I pulled off a camcorder tape.  MR Noise also has  
settings for LPs and Cassettes.  I have read online, and it has  
proven to be the case with my own use, that you get better reduction  
with fewer artifacts if you do 2 or more passes on material using  
light noise reduction than trying to get it all with a heavy dose in  
one pass.

Good luck.

Gregory


On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:22 PM, Tim McLane wrote:

> Hey Greg,
>
> Do you have a website for Master Restoration?
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> t
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> On Aug 11, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Gregory Anderson wrote:
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> > 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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