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Les Green


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Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
Post  Posted 5 Feb 2004 7:25 pm    
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Am presently transferring a bunch of old lp's and cassettes to CD. Can anyone recommend a program to remove some of the pops and cracks on the lp's?

Les Green
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Tom Diemer

 

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Defiance, Ohio USA
Post  Posted 6 Feb 2004 4:06 am    
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I used to use Cool Edit 2000 with the noise reduction plug in for that - did a pretty good job. I heard Wave corrector works pretty well, never tried it myself.

Here is a list of several, mostly shareware. You could download and try them out, see if they work for you.
http://www.sonicspot.com/samplerestorers.html
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Les Green


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Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
Post  Posted 6 Feb 2004 7:10 am    
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Thanks Tom. I'll give them a try. At present I'm using "Ripvinyl" to get them into the computer, which does an excellent job by the way for a $7 program, but some are in very bad shape. Thanks again.
Les
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Wayne Carver

 

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Martinez, Georgia, USA
Post  Posted 6 Feb 2004 8:45 am    
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This company makes a program called "Depopper". If you do a search here on the forum you can find other that use it. I have about decided to use ripvinyl and depopper when i convert my lps to cd. These two programs are cheap. Did you find ripvinyl to your liking? Here's the link to depopper. http://www.droidinfo.com/software/depopper/
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Ray Minich

 

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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
Post  Posted 6 Feb 2004 12:19 pm    
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I use a program called DART Pro(Digital Audio Processing Technology). It's kinda pricey but really has some neat features. Check it out at http://www.dartpro.com.
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Les Green


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Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
Post  Posted 6 Feb 2004 12:31 pm    
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Wayne,
Haven't been using "Rip" very long but so far it does exactly what it's advertised to do. The only problem I've had is getting it to split tracks on a very noisy LP. You may have to split a few manually but that's easy to do. Anyway, pretty good program for $7. Hope this helps, Wayne.
Les
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Les Green


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Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
Post  Posted 8 Feb 2004 5:45 pm    
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Wayne,
Just downloaded the trial version of "depopper" and must say it works excellent. Really cleaned up a couple of lp's for me. Thanks for the tip.
Les

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Tommy Mc


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Middlesex VT
Post  Posted 11 Feb 2004 3:30 am    
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Hi guys....I've tried all three programs mentioned. I would rank them:
1. CoolEdit
2. Depopper
3. Dart
For the money IMHO Depopper is the best value, and nearly as good as CoolEdit except in extreme cases.
For those interested, I did a side by side test of a real scratchy record processed with Depopper and CoolEdit. you can download it here: http://angelfire.com/vt2/tommymc3/DepopTest.zip

[This message was edited by Tommy Mc on 11 February 2004 at 03:34 AM.]

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