I know this belongs in the audio or SF forum but I also know SPOT has one of these units so hopefully he can give me an independant evaluation.
What I'm getting more into is archival retrieval and would like to be able to do the best possible job. I use NR2 a lot for what it excels at, removing natural noise. However given how it works I don't believe it's of much use on unnatural noise, things like tape hiss etc. The click removal tools do seem to work well for what they were designed for though.
So I'm giving some thought to the Cedar but I have two reservations about them.
Firstly they require analogue feeds and much of this material is already digitised and the analogue sources long lost. I don't think going through a D->A->D->A->D pass is going to do much for the material!
Secondly, I don't need RT performance, so the same thing as a software tool should be able to do a better job and cost less.
I've listened to a bit of 'Digitally Remastered' material lately, just my spin on this, but I think I would have preferred they'd left it alone, the shifting level of tape hiss is more distracting than it would have been in the original recording!
Any advice or thoughts much appreciated and again my apologies for putting this in the 'wrong' place.
Bob.
What I'm getting more into is archival retrieval and would like to be able to do the best possible job. I use NR2 a lot for what it excels at, removing natural noise. However given how it works I don't believe it's of much use on unnatural noise, things like tape hiss etc. The click removal tools do seem to work well for what they were designed for though.
So I'm giving some thought to the Cedar but I have two reservations about them.
Firstly they require analogue feeds and much of this material is already digitised and the analogue sources long lost. I don't think going through a D->A->D->A->D pass is going to do much for the material!
Secondly, I don't need RT performance, so the same thing as a software tool should be able to do a better job and cost less.
I've listened to a bit of 'Digitally Remastered' material lately, just my spin on this, but I think I would have preferred they'd left it alone, the shifting level of tape hiss is more distracting than it would have been in the original recording!
Any advice or thoughts much appreciated and again my apologies for putting this in the 'wrong' place.
Bob.