Affordable Audio Restoration Editor

[Passing Bye]

So I'm in desperate need for some good affordable audio restoration editor for dealing with vinyl&tape converted material

Adobe Audtion was my first try&go and it's nice (actually Audacity was and it's just not cutting it), but all that cloud thing is ridiculous and it's pricey, Sony SoundForge is no go either, so I snooped around and basically at this point almost perfect thing is Acon Digital AudioLava Premium Edition that goes for 59.90$, pretty sweet deal and for what I need it blows Audition out of the water, so is there anything more or I stumbled pretty fast on best thing for the job?

Update:



http://www.algorithmix.com/en/soundrescue.htm

Okay, this is even better than AudioLava, got better results pretty much instantly with it, there is 25% discount from 79.90$ if I get it in next few days, so pretty much same price

[Grasshopper]

Most likely the best thing you need.

It only has about 25% of the capability that Audition has, as Audition is easily the most professional app that's been mentioned, but for what you need to do, cleaning up vinyl recordings, what you found there is perfect. It looks wonderfully simple for the job. Great find!

You don't need to sync audio to video or use the Spectral Imaging to clean audio and make it perfect for movies and dialogue in commercials, or mix a multitrack studio recording which is but a mere sliver of the higher end of what Audition does

[Passing Bye]

Exactly, it boils down to that particular task, I really can't find anything better for the buck

[chk071]

You could check out Wavelab Elements too, which comes with the Sonnox restoration suite. Not sure if it fixes tape related stuff though, but i think it also has a DeBuzzer which might do that. If you have Wavelab LE, which came free with some mags in the past, you can also upgrade it to Elements for 49 € (full version costs 99€). I did some vinyl restoration with it in the past, and it gave me the best results. I also tried Audacity with the integrated restoration plugins, and they didn't recognize or do anything unfortunately...

You could also re-order the Beat issue with Wavelab LE 8 on it, and then upgrade to Elements from there: http://www.falkemedia-shop.de/musik/beat/beat-1954.html

[Grasshopper]

Exactly, it boils down to that particular task, I really can't find anything better for the buck

It looks like a great product. Like, something really good that just doesn't have the advertising dollar behind it to push it further. A bit less of a Windows XP looking GUI and that app could be considered THE simple-and-awesome Restoration vst on the block. Every feature there is awesome for the job you're doing and the interface really couldn't be more simple or intuitive. Money well spent.

[Passing Bye]

You could check out Wavelab Elements too....

Totally missed out on that one, I'm going for sure to give Elements a spin and for sure that's the route to go at it, awesome, thanks for great suggestion

It looks like a great product.....

It does really, gonna dive in little more between few, have plenty of material left to finish, fun stuff

Thanks for chiming in

[Passing Bye]

After more testing today I find SR3 kinda "one trick pony" because I mostly have cassette converted field interview recordings to work with here, WaveLab didn't impressed me either, but on other hand I'm pretty impressed with denoise algorithm in both Acon Digital's Acoustica versions and must say one in Premium is really something, but Standard one is good too, on some material I actually prefer that one, so I'm leaning towards Standard version because difference in price is pretty big and delivery isn't that far away, gonna dive in more, have month left on both of them and Audition, so if there is something I missed out, please say, but only if it's really going to stack up against this offerings, which I doubt by now.