On 16/02/2015 15:01, Eiron wrote:

Using Goldwave you can take a straight copy of an LP,
auto-declick it and do a diff on the two files, leaving
20 minutes of clicks and pops which can then be added
for nostalgic effect to any CD.


Brilliant! A personalised library of one's favorite clicks and pops to
apply to those bland digitally recorded tracks.

More seriously, how does Goldwave compare with Audacity and Audition?

On 16/02/2015 18:26, Sumatriptan wrote:
On 16/02/2015 15:01, Eiron wrote:

Using Goldwave you can take a straight copy of an LP,
auto-declick it and do a diff on the two files, leaving
20 minutes of clicks and pops which can then be added
for nostalgic effect to any CD.


Brilliant! A personalised library of one's favorite clicks and pops to
apply to those bland digitally recorded tracks.

More seriously, how does Goldwave compare with Audacity and Audition?

It's cheaper than Audition and more expensive than Audacity. All have
free versions you can download to try out.

Which is best for you depends on what you're doing and how you prefer to
work.

Audacity is basically a stereo editor which will do multitrack work at a
pinch, and Audition is a system which will let you do a multitrack
project from start to finish. They can all do sample level editing and
digital gain automation, and you can get many plugins to do things the
native programs can't do.

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Audacity is basically a stereo editor which will do multitrack work at a
pinch, and Audition is a system which will let you do a multitrack
project from start to finish. They can all do sample level editing and
digital gain automation, and you can get many plugins to do things the
native programs can't do.

FWIW I use Audacity for declicking recordings from LPs. The two main
suggestions I'd make for this are as follows.

1) Where you can, use the 'repair' effect, not the one labelled
specifically for click removal.

2) Use something like 'sox' to generate a second, filtered version of the
file. I use sox to apply a highpass (2nd order) filter with a turnover at 5
kHz. I then load this below the main file into Audacity. This filtered
version makes many clicks much easier to see. When editing set the main
file to 'solo' and the filtered to 'mute'. When finished, just save the
edited main file.

Loud bangs and clicks are fairly easy to see in an audio editor's wveform
display. But lower-level ones can often be audible without being easy to
spot until you can zoom in to them. Using a filtered file gives you a
better chance to find where to zoom in. :-)

The downside is you need to avoid accidentally adding the clicks back in
when you save the results!

FWIW I've assigned the 'R' key on my systems to apply the 'repair'
function. Speeds things up. But note that for best results you may
initially need to experiment with how wide a timespan to select for a
repair. Once you've got the hang of it, this will become obvious.

Jim

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On 16/02/2015 20:53, John Williamson wrote:
On 16/02/2015 18:26, Sumatriptan wrote:
On 16/02/2015 15:01, Eiron wrote:

Using Goldwave you can take a straight copy of an LP,
auto-declick it and do a diff on the two files, leaving
20 minutes of clicks and pops which can then be added
for nostalgic effect to any CD.


Brilliant! A personalised library of one's favorite clicks and pops to
apply to those bland digitally recorded tracks.

More seriously, how does Goldwave compare with Audacity and Audition?

It's cheaper than Audition and more expensive than Audacity. All have
free versions you can download to try out.

Which is best for you depends on what you're doing and how you prefer to
work.

Audacity is basically a stereo editor which will do multitrack work at a
pinch, and Audition is a system which will let you do a multitrack
project from start to finish. They can all do sample level editing and
digital gain automation, and you can get many plugins to do things the
native programs can't do.


Thanks, I do occasionally use Audacity but, so far, not for cleaning up
files from LPs. Also have Audition. Was just wondering if Goldwave
offered much more than the others.