QUOTE (Bulian @ Apr 14 2005, 09:56 AM)
Hi, guys:
Do anyone of you kñow about a good audio restoration software for free? I've got a lot of old tapes waiting for being cleaned up
Thanks in advance
If these tapes were not recorded from vinyl records (ie. they don't have clicks, pops and crackle), and if they don't have any dropouts, then you might find Audacity has enough to get by with. It has a broadband noise removal feature and reasonably sophisticated EQ facilities that between them might help clean up tape problems.
If you need to restore impulse noises (eg. clicks/pops/dropouts), or if you want more sophisticated hiss reduction (eg. level-dependant low pass filtering), then I don't know of any free software that does this.
And finally, I'll just point out that the most important step in the transfer of tape is getting the azimuth, replay EQ and Dolby calibration set correctly on the playback deck. Start with the best possible analogue signal and the restoration task becomes much easier.