#SONY SOUND FORGE 9 NOISE BIAS MANUAL#
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With snap-, crackle- and pop-infested audio files that had been recorded from vinyl, adjusting the Remove Click & Crackle slider reliably took the edge off the offending elements, making the sonic gremlins seem further in the background and far less obvious. We didn't find the software's Preserve Voice function to be especially effective with music, but it worked a bit better with video files. With Bill Monroe's 1947 recording of 'I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling,' the Learn Noise function effectively removed most of the hiss, but we had to pull back on the Noise Reduction knob a bit to preserve the vocal's natural sound.

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Although trial and error was an integral part of the process, improving most audio files proved relatively easy during testing. If you're too heavy-handed with the controls, you'll introduce audible artifacts or diminish the natural quality of the sound, but if you're too conservative, the file's original noise problems won't be eliminated. To fix a file, Bias recommends methodically adjusting the software's controls one at a time from left to right across the interface until you're happy with the results.

#SONY SOUND FORGE 9 NOISE BIAS MANUAL#

In some cases, you can get the best results making manual adjustments to the Noise Tuner and Noise Reduction controls after having used the Learn Noise function to get in ballpark range. The feature works especially well with audio files that have a silent passage for SoundSoap 2.0 to analyze. The Learn Noise function analyzes a few seconds of the file's audio, then automatically sets the Noise Tuner and Noise Reduction controls to zone in on and remove hiss and background noise. Impatient types can jump right in by clicking SoundSoap 2.0's Learn Noise button and firing up file playback. You can also save SoundSoap 2.0 presets, which could come in handy if you're processing separate tracks recorded from the same LP, for instance. The standalone version saves audio files to hard disc in WAV, AIFF, or WMA formats-we're a bit disappointed that MP3 isn't available as an option, but if you use SoundSoap 2.0 as a plug-in within a program that has MP3 encoding, this won't be an issue. You can apply different processing settings to separate sections of any file, then select Save As to save the changes as a whole. The standalone version of SoundSoap 2.0 also includes transports (play, pause, and so on) and user-selectable in and out points to allow processing specific sections of files. Other controls include a Remove Click & Crackle slider, which is designed to fix pops associated with recordings made from vinyl a Preserve Voice button, which bypasses vocal-frequency processing to preserve a natural sound a Remove Rumble button, which removes low-frequency rumble and an Enhance slider, which attempts to restore the tonal quality of recordings made from degraded media. But unless you read the user guide, you may not understand a few of the controls such as the 60Hz Remove Hum button, which specifically removes electrical hum. The SoundSoap 2.0 interface, which contains more than a dozen controls including knobs, sliders, and buttons, is uncluttered and generally well designed. SoundSoap 2.0's well-laid-out interface makes it fairly simple to use. DivX fiends will be disappointed by SoundSoap 2.0's incompatibility with that format. In standalone mode, SoundSoap is compatible with all the file formats you'd probably expect, including AVI, WMV, WAV, MP3, MP4, WMA, SDII, and AIFF, except for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. When used as a plug-in, Bias says SoundSoap 2.0 is compatible with any file format that the host application can play. The first step to using SoundSoap 2.0 is to select an audio or audio/video file that you want to fix. In comparison, the original SoundSoap offered only DirectX and VST compatibility. In fact, SoundSoap 2.0 can run from within any recording, editing, or mastering application that supports DirectX, VST, Audio Units, RTAS or AudioSuite plug-ins.

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We tested SoundSoap 2.0 as a standalone application, but it can alternatively be used as a plug-in with compatible host programs, including Apple GarageBand, Adobe Premiere, MOTU Digital Performer, Steinberg Cubase, Digidesign Pro Tools, and Sony Sound Forge.

SoundSoap 2.0 isn't foolproof, and mastering it takes a little practice, but if you want to clean up digital recordings made from vinyl or cassettes, improve rough-sounding MP3 files, or enhance the audibility of dialogue in camcorder footage, SoundSoap 2.0 is a great choice.

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Today, you can do a lot more, thanks to software applications such as Bias SoundSoap 2.0 ($99), which precisely isolates and eliminates digital-audio-file noise problems such as clicks, pops, electrical hum, rumble, and background hiss. Back in the analog days of home recording, using noise reduction meant switching on Dolby B and hoping for the best.

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