[Chrisgleason635]

Hi Rick-

You and I noticed the same thing– seems strange that the plug-in goes for more than the whole package, but so be it. I just downloaded SF9 and have been tinkering with it– for the life of me, I can’t get the peaks to restore, though. The instructions seem simple and I think I’m following them but it just isn’t working at all.

Any tips?

Chris

[Chrisgleason635]

Hi Rick-

Wow, that sounds great. Thanks for doing all of that tinkering on my behalf. You mentioned that Noise Reduction 2 is available as a seperate plug-in: can I run it from Vegas?

Thanks
Chris

[Chrisgleason635]

Hi Mike-

Here is a short clip (10-15 seconds) that will show you exactly what I’m working on. It is a 1.1 megabyte MP3, and it is worse than most of the rest of the whole audio track. If I could get the first minute evened out, the rest is ok. I saw online that Adobe Audition is much less expensive than Soundforge– would that do the job? And is my hope of finding some kind of filter completely untenable?

Here is the link. I just uploaded it so it might take a few minutes to make it through the maze on Youtube’s server:

https://www.youtube.com/chrisgleason635

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[Chrisgleason635]

Rick-

By the way, I have Audacity, but I can’t find anything in it that seems like it will allow me to actually go in and edit waveforms.

I don’t rule out buying something new if need be– the right tool for the job is often worth the $$, it seems– so I will be curious about your suggestions.

Thanks
Chris

[Chrisgleason635]

Hi Rick-

Thanks for the help. I think your diagnoss is correct as to why this problem occured. A real rookie move, but now I am stuck with it. Anyway, I have been messing around with all sorts of filters and am not quite having the right results.

I think that you are exactly right– I need to doctor the waveforms in the audio, not mess with the overall dynamic range of the file. I don’t own soundforge but would purchase something to do the trick if necessary. Time is of the essence, and I sure have learned a lot in the last 5 hours of experimenting, but mostly I’ve learned what WON’T work. heh heh.

Is soundforge a $$$ piece of software? If so, is there something budget-minded that will do the job?

Thanks
Chris

[Chrisgleason635]

Hi Rob-

Thanks for the advice, I will give that a try. I have been tinkering all morning using all of the plug-ins (I am running Vegas 8) and seeing what they do. So far I have had the best luck with the graphic equalizer, but this is tedious at best and doesn’t fully solve the problem without creating new ones. Maybe that is the nature of the beast and I should be shooting for a happy medium?

Your approach is intriguing, so I will give it a shot right now.

Thanks
Chris