Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Thank you!!
On Aug 11, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Gregory Anderson wrote:

> 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.
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> Good luck.
>
> Gregory
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> On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:22 PM, Tim McLane wrote:
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> > Hey Greg,
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> > 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:
> > >
> > > > 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
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> > Tim McLane
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Tim McLane
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