New Wave Outpost Forum

I'm starting to get the hang of SoundForge, and its numerous tools & features to clean up vinyl rips.


1) If you have a pop, and you are lucky to have a pop on just one channel(left or right), you can just transpose the other side's audio(at the same point in time), and pop go bye-bye. Just select the pop, only on the channel it is on. And the name of the command I forgot already since I'ma at work. "Copy other side"?

2) My deck is a bit louder on the right than it is on the left. Thankfully, there's a channel equalizer. Things are much more symmetrical afterward.

And I think that's about it for cleaning up. No pops, and a nice even balance between the channels. Determining when you want to cut off the end of the track is child's play. It's just tough when some artists leave ZERO time between tracks, as I recently discovered last night.

"Find" yourself a copy of Stienberg Vinyl Restoration. It's a DirX plug-in and it does wonders for cleaning up vinyl. Email me if you want to know more.

I've found that on really loud pops I can go in and isolate teh pop by splitting the wav file, bringing the pop down to the level of the rest of the wav and it's pretty un-noticable.

I haven't used Sound Forge in years, but this thenique works well in Magix Samplitude when the Steinberg doesn't clean up everything.