What programs are available to clean audio with a lot of background noise? What are the group's recommendations?
depends on your budjet. for free there's krystal and audacity. for around $100 there's decent consumer apps like sound forge or adobe audition. or for around $500 you can get the professional system pro tools. whats the source of the noise, and what file types are you dealing with?
I am dealing with the same problem - I am trying to convert over my cassettes to digital so I can make them into MP3's. The old stereo I have only has a headphone output, so from there into my sound card - what I have recorded sounds HORRIBLE. Is this the best it will get with the old boom box? Thanks for your help.
I use a walkman, a connecting cable, and Audacity (free program). The results are superb. The program comes with a lot of effect tools for dealing with background noise etc..
the only thing that I recommend is to use "exact audio copy--eac" instead of audacity to get the analog source to wav. EAC--(tools at the top, then "record wav"). I seem to get a cleaner (and better sounding digital copy with less glitches) wav when I use EAC to get the sound from analog to digital (wav). you can then use audacity to edit the wav to your preference, if you want to.
