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radiokenny · Posted - Mon May 06, 2002 6:23 pm

I work every day with people who record audio on cassettes and then dump the audio into cool edit pro. Then they reduce the background noise of the audio and then apply any compression, amplification, effects or equalizing. I took samples from many cassette recorders and found a background noise profile that fits many cassette recorders. Next, I took some simple setting and applied it to the audio. I understand that each piece of audio has unique background profile and you can’t make a generic setting for all recorders, but I think the profile is a fair representation of common cassette noise. Many times production directors are crunched for time and have to crank out spots faster than they wish. Much of the audio contains background noise and has inconsistent levels because of this. The following script can be applied to a basic cassette voice track clean and optimize its sound. I know this isn’t a fix for all problems, but it might be a good script to run when you don’t have time to totally clean and optimize the cassette vocal track. I ran the script on 15 random cassette vocal tracks from different machines and I feel it cleaned the audio very well. Remember the script is for a straight vocal track only…no music behind it. Just download the zip file that contains the script and 2 .fft files. Then extract the files to your script folder inside the cool edit folder and run “ voicecleanandboost”. This may be one small way to help improve the overall production sound quality on your station when you are strapped for time. I hope it helps you in time crunch situations. The script also has a setting that will clean up muddy audio that is mixed down on tape and cant be re-cut. If you have a commercial that is finished and can’t be recorded again for some reason, it may help. Click the following link to download the files http://www.timelinecenter.com .....Scroll down past the cool edit lessons and it is the first story on the page.

Step 1. Download and extract files into the "scripts" folder inside your cool edit folder.

Step 2. Record your vocal track into cool edit and highlight the entire wave.

Step 2. Click the scripts and automation Icon on cool edit pro. Then click open/new collection and browse and find the script named then highlight (voicecleanandboost) and Run.

Give me some feedback on how good it works with your cassette vocal recordings.

Later, Radiokenny

Edited by - radiokenny on 05/06/2002 6:24:24 PM

Edited by - radiokenny on 05/06/2002 6:26:38 PM

joeedit · Posted - Wed May 08, 2002 9:12 pm

This script worked really good at the station. Great job.