Audio cleaning advice needed

[rhegedus]

I've just captured an old VHS tape to DV but the audio quality is quite poor in parts. This isn't a capture problem because the audio is the same if I view it on TV.

The audio itself is all there, but there are added clicks and noises and also areas where the volume suddenly goes up for a split second and then returns to normal.

I've tried Audio Cleaning Lab Delux and Sound Forge without success, but as I'm new to audio it's probably my fault.

I can't host the file to download, but I'd gladly send a clip of the file to show what I mean in more detail - just e-mail me: roberthegedus@yahoo.co.uk

Any help is much appreciated

[muskgrave]

You should download the trial version of Adobe Audition. It has a Click/Pop filter that you might be interested in as well as a good noise reduction feature. I can assist in using it if you'd like. It's one of the Easiest audio editing programs I've ever used but it does a really good job.

dlv

[rhegedus]

Thanks for the pm

Anyone else up for salvaging some audio?

[dwiesel]

I need to do the same thing, I captured some video from a laserdisc with laser rot and the audio sounds like an old vinyl record in places.

In the past I've used EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to manually clean up .WAV files...it's time consuming but doing it manually assures no music loss...the problem, is, will there be significant quality loss if I convert my 48mz file to 44 (since EAC is limited to 44mz), and then convert it back to 48?