Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Bell
I ran your original unedited firsth through noise reduction and then fft filtering (in Audition). See if you can forget the faux- richness imparted by the low rumble. :) http://maltedmedia.com/recordings/ Morley-Aria.mp3 Well, if I had those tools, I guess I'd do that, too, but lacking

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, November 3, 2008 7:39 am, Chris Bell wrote: For those in need of noise/hiss/rumble/clicks removing . . . Here's a list of software that I use to work their magic: http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoapPro/ The slightly cheaper version, but still very good:

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Bell
For those in need of noise/hiss/rumble/clicks removing . . . Here's a list of software that I use to work their magic: http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoapPro/ The slightly cheaper version, but still very good: http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoap2/

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, November 3, 2008 9:08 am, Chris Bell wrote: Ahh yes . . but . . buy quality, cry once That's what they said about Finale. Dennis ...still crying 16 years later. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread David W. Fenton
On 3 Nov 2008 at 9:05, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Mon, November 3, 2008 7:39 am, Chris Bell wrote: For those in need of noise/hiss/rumble/clicks removing . . . Here's a list of software that I use to work their magic: http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoapPro/ The slightly

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David, I haven't actually listened to your recording, but if you have access to a Mac there is a free, and pretty impressive tool available, called soundhack. I use it often to carefully remove background noise from recordings. www.soundhack.com On 02.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: I ran

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: BTW, I'm THRILLED that nobody could find my splice. I don't have great tools for this kind of thing (I used Audacity to split the file into Beginning/End/Middle WAVs and then sewed them back together with the Exact Audo Copy WAV editor, which works better

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: I don't know for certain if more expensive tools could have been used more subtly to produce something that me ears would find satisfactory (one of Dennis's efforts produced with his normal tools really did sound quite good and didn't seem to sacrifice the

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread David W. Fenton
On 3 Nov 2008 at 20:49, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 02.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: BTW, I'm THRILLED that nobody could find my splice. I don't have great tools for this kind of thing (I used Audacity to split the file into Beginning/End/Middle WAVs and then sewed them back together

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Mon, November 3, 2008 9:08 am, Chris Bell wrote: Ahh yes . . but . . buy quality, cry once That's what they said about Finale. Dennis ...still crying 16 years later. Touche -- but if the saying is true, and we have indeed cried many times, did we really buy

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: It is certainly good enough for what I need to do. I was merely refering to much more difficult than I ever imagined, which doesn't need to be the case. I edit recordings a lot, and have done and am doing full CDs with hundreds of edits, so I think I know

[Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David W. Fenton
Before I commit to an edited recording, I was wondering if I could get some objective ears to listen. Can you hear the splice in the single MP3 in this folder: http://dfenton.com/Collegium/StMichaelsSecular/ I know where it is and can't hear it (no matter how often I listen), but the treble

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David McKay
Very nice. Can't hear it, though I thought it might have been at precisely 60 secs in just after Let me take you ... and before ...down but it wasn't. David McKay 2008/11/3 David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before I commit to an edited recording, I was wondering if I could get some objective

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sun, November 2, 2008 2:45 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: Before I commit to an edited recording, I was wondering if I could get some objective ears to listen. Can you hear the splice in the single MP3 in this folder: http://dfenton.com/Collegium/StMichaelsSecular/ There are two glitches,

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Nov 2008 at 15:28, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Sun, November 2, 2008 2:45 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: Before I commit to an edited recording, I was wondering if I could get some objective ears to listen. Can you hear the splice in the single MP3 in this folder:

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sun, November 2, 2008 3:45 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: The rumble, well, that's all in the original recording -- sounds like it's off an LP, right? Like an HVAC system or a permanent A-train. :) Is there any way with something like Audacity to filter out the rumble? I'm right now testing

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Nov 2008 at 15:45, David W. Fenton wrote: Is there any way with something like Audacity to filter out the rumble? I'm right now testing the Noise Removal tool, but don't have results yet... Well, here's the results of that: http://dfenton.com/Collegium/StMichaelsSecular/ in the

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 2:45 PM -0500 11/2/08, David W. Fenton wrote: I know where it is and can't hear it (no matter how often I listen), but the treble player is convinced she can hear it. I slowed it down, and noticed what may be a splice at 19.75 seconds. I say this because the ambient sound seems to me to

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Nov 2008 at 15:53, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Sun, November 2, 2008 3:45 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: The rumble, well, that's all in the original recording -- sounds like it's off an LP, right? Like an HVAC system or a permanent A-train. :) Possibly the air, but the recording was

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Nov 2008 at 14:19, Carlberg Jones wrote: At 2:45 PM -0500 11/2/08, David W. Fenton wrote: I know where it is and can't hear it (no matter how often I listen), but the treble player is convinced she can hear it. I slowed it down, and noticed what may be a splice at 19.75 seconds. I

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sun, November 2, 2008 4:12 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: Bad as it is, I think I'll just live with the original rumble -- my ear tunes it out after a short time, just like we always did with LPs. I ran your original unedited firsth through noise reduction and then fft filtering (in Audition).

RE: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread Brennon Bortz
] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David W. Fenton Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 8:55 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice? On 2 Nov 2008 at 15:45, David W. Fenton wrote: Is there any way with something

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Nov 2008 at 16:30, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Sun, November 2, 2008 4:12 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: Bad as it is, I think I'll just live with the original rumble -- my ear tunes it out after a short time, just like we always did with LPs. I ran your original unedited firsth

RE: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Nov 2008 at 20:58, Brennon Bortz wrote: A low-pass filter will cut off the high end, and allow low frequencies to pass. You're actually looking for a high-pass filter if you want to remove frequencies below 30Hz, as Dennis suggested. Thanks. After posting that I Googled the definition,

RE: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sun, November 2, 2008 4:50 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: The FFT filter is just worthless, because the UI is not specific enough (I can't tell exactly what frequency I'm telling it to drop off to nothing at). Terrible, yes. I just reinstalled Audacity on this system. The High Pass Filter in

RE: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Nov 2008 at 17:07, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Sun, November 2, 2008 4:50 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: The FFT filter is just worthless, because the UI is not specific enough (I can't tell exactly what frequency I'm telling it to drop off to nothing at). Terrible, yes. I just

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
For me, it seams. Dean On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:45 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: Before I commit to an edited recording, I was wondering if I could get some objective ears to listen. Can you hear the splice in the single MP3 in this folder: http://dfenton.com/Collegium/StMichaelsSecular/ I

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-02 Thread Chris Bell
Is there any way with something like Audacity to filter out the rumble? I'm right now testing the Noise Removal tool, but don't have results yet... David, if you like I can help you with removing that rumble/noise, I have access to a whole bunch of noise/hiss/reducing apps (this is