Web URL's for SBO's Magazine's' February 2010 Music Technology Column:
Audio Tools for Music Educators:
Noise Cleaning & Audio Enhancements
by John Kuzmich, Jr.
www.kuzmich.com/SBO012010.html
Audio Examples of Noise and Sound Deficiencies
Products |
Annotated Comments |
Before Cleaning |
After Cleaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spin It Again | This was a very old and abused record, circa 1920, with a large chunk broken off of it, that was rescued from a California public library's trash. You can easily hear the extent of the damage in the original recording, and you can hear how Spin It Again automatically removed all the noise while preserving the audio. | Bean-Original | Beans-Cleaned |
| Spin It Again | Old blues recording from a heavily damaged record. You can hear how Spin It Again is able to remove the noise while preserving the original audio. | Original Blues.mp3 | Cleaned Blues.mp3 |
| SoundSoap Pro 2 | This recording was made on an ungrounded turntable, and contains broadband noise, electrical hum, needle hiss, and clicks & crackles. SoundSoap Pro 2 was used to clean it up. | Fireside Before | Fireside Before |
| SoundSoap 2 | This was recorded from an old Wollensak reel-to-reel machine, and cleaned up using SoundSoap 2. | Old reeel to reel tape recording.aif |
Old reeel to reel tape recording.aif |
| SoundSoap 2 | Originally shot on Hi-8 analog video camera, and digitized for use in iMovie. In the background of this video, there is a fan on, and water running, and there is additional noise picked up in the A-to-D conversion process. This file was cleaned up using SoundSoap 2. | lea.mov | lea.mov |
| SoundSoap Pro 2 | This was a recording submitted to us by an engineer who was curious to see if SoundSoap could be used to clean up this "talkie" of his father, which was recorded on a shellac or acetate record. This file was clipped badly during recording, and even with that much content missing and distorted, SoundSoap Pro 2 was able to clean it up well. | ||
| SoundSoap 2 | This is a short clip of guitar, recorded from a vinyl record. It contains needle hiss, and clicks/crackles, and is easy to clean up with SoundSoap 2. | Guitar from Vinyl.wav | Guitar_from_Vinyl after.mp3 |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Brilliance Enhancer.wav | Demo_Brilliance Enhancer.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Declipper.wav | Demo_Declipper | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Dehisser.wav | Demo_Dehisser.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Dynamics.wav | Demo_Dynamics.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Equalizer.wav | Demo_Equalizer.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Sound Cloner Ziel.wav | Demo_Sound Cloner.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Declicker.wav | Demo_Declicker.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Decrackler.wav | Demo_Decrackler.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Denoiser.wav | Demo_Denoiser.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Multimax.wav | Demo_Multimax.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Sound Cloner Quelle.wav | Demo_Sound Cloner.mp3 | |
| Audio Cleaning Lab | Demo Stereo Enhancer.wav | Demo_Stereo Enhancer.mp3 |
iZotope has numerous before-and-after examples of their audio restorations at: http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/ along with descriptions.