HISSSSSSSSSSS

[Stuart]

Hi Mark
I would double check the Dolby setting if the tape was recorded with it on and you playback with it off then hiss will be magnified at low recording levels. However if the Tape was recorded on a different machine that might introduce unwelcome pumping effects so in that case it is best done in Audacity or similar. I've not performed hiss removal in Audacity but have in one of the Nero apps and it worked well mainly as it was piano music and there was little extreme HF content. Audacity does allow you to preview effects on a sample of the recording before applying the effect to the whole file so it would then be a case if trial and error . 
Stuart

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@...> wrote:
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> steve - so it goes - thanks for continuing with uploading. As my resident guru - I am recording an old tape which is really quiet and at full volume so it has a major hiss on playback. In audacity there seem to be all sorts of stuff that can be done to alter the track - do you know what to do to remove? Others welcome to answer
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> I've also just remembered that there was one of my tape that needed reloading into another case as it stuck badly when played back and banging it etc didn't work. I think you said Bill from North Wales sometimes helped out in sorting out such miscreants - is that correct? I think you said they needed to be broken opne and reloaded into another case. that seems too dangerous for me to attempt - I might have someone's eye out!
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> Mark
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