How to clean/remaster & import long (old crackly) MP3 au

[Buzz Mando]

Hi,

I have run into a bunch of old sermons that were transfered from the original tape (in one case an Edison wax cylinder).

Many were very poorly transfered and need help. There is on some a very annoying artifact that is like a winding sound or squealing I'd like to identify and remove.

I can't even figure out how to import long (over an hour) MP3's into DP.

If you can help, or refer me to a link, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Buzz

[taggart]

I've heard Sound Soap by Bias, Inc. is pretty good at cleaning up noise (hence the name!). I've got the "light" version but I've never even used it yet, but I hope to in the future. My Dad's got a bunch of old 78rpm jazz records I want to transfer and burn to CD. And Waves makes a good high-end noise reduction package. Kinda pricey, though.
As far as importing the MP3's, you should be able to import a file that long. I've never tried it. Does it give you an error message when you try to do that?

[soundsun]

Hi,

I have run into a bunch of old sermons that were transfered from the original tape (in one case an Edison wax cylinder).

Many were very poorly transfered and need help. There is on some a very annoying artifact that is like a winding sound or squealing I'd like to identify and remove.

I can't even figure out how to import long (over an hour) MP3's into DP.

If you can help, or refer me to a link, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Buzz

For the Edison wax cylinder (and any vinyl transfers) there's a great $25 program that removes the pops and clicks called ClickRepair. I haven't used it myself yet, but there is a rather dramatic demonstration of the program on this page (it's near the bottom of the page) of before and after examples.

http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/10/ ... joice.html