[geeks] Tape hiss

[Dan Sikorski]

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 04:53, Rob Fielding wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been posed a problem to show off my SGI's to my friends. They 
> have a bunch of old tapes they want to convert to mp3, however we'd be 
> interested 'cleaning up' the sound a little. I'm currently searching the 
> web and reading about the denoising of audio using lifted interpolated 
> wavelets ( a final project from Winter 1996 term at Dartmouth College) 
> but I'd thought I'd ask here in the mean time if anyone had any suggestions.
> 
> It doesn't have to IRIX specific. Linux would work for me to - really 
> just trying to avoid crapy hacked copies of soundforge on windblows.

Audacity might fit the bill.  It has a noise remover tool, but i haven't
really used it enough to tell you if it would be good for that or not. 
It might even compile on IRIX, but i wouldn't hold my breath.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

	-Dan Sikorski