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I have been using Peak for occasional declicking of vinyl for several
years and am getting sick of it's shortcomings.
Maybe I am spoiled, but I had access to Sonic Solutions for a while in
the late 1990s and all you had to do (seemingly) was glance at that
thing the right way and it would produce amazing results.
Losing access to Sonic (the studio who owned it closed), I resorted to
Peak, as I already happened to have it on my HD for simple waveform
editing tasks.
My problem with the click removal functions in Peak are that if you set
it to "repair all", it usually does more harm than good, often creating
waveforms more mis-shapen than the originals. Tinkering with the
settings doesn't really help much; it will still repair some clicks
just fine, but hopelessly mangle others.
Doing it manually takes FOREVER.
So my question is if anyone out there can recoomend a Mac OSX based
click-repair tool that is more reliable than Peak, but not as costly as
Sonic, one that ha a manual mode and a USEABLE automatic mode.
I don't expect Sonic Solutions quality of course, but perhaps splitting
the difference in price and also in quality between Peak and Sonic is
what I want.
This is simply for archiving old vinyl, and wanting to clean it up just
a bit, but to do it right.
thanks
JT
I have been using Peak for occasional declicking of vinyl for several
years and am getting sick of it's shortcomings.
Maybe I am spoiled, but I had access to Sonic Solutions for a while in
the late 1990s and all you had to do (seemingly) was glance at that
thing the right way and it would produce amazing results.
Losing access to Sonic (the studio who owned it closed), I resorted to
Peak, as I already happened to have it on my HD for simple waveform
editing tasks.
My problem with the click removal functions in Peak are that if you set
it to "repair all", it usually does more harm than good, often creating
waveforms more mis-shapen than the originals. Tinkering with the
settings doesn't really help much; it will still repair some clicks
just fine, but hopelessly mangle others.
Doing it manually takes FOREVER.
So my question is if anyone out there can recoomend a Mac OSX based
click-repair tool that is more reliable than Peak, but not as costly as
Sonic, one that ha a manual mode and a USEABLE automatic mode.
I don't expect Sonic Solutions quality of course, but perhaps splitting
the difference in price and also in quality between Peak and Sonic is
what I want.
This is simply for archiving old vinyl, and wanting to clean it up just
a bit, but to do it right.
thanks
JT