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Date:	Mon, 31 May 2004 22:57:45 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Audio recording / editing programs?

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Tom Brown wrote:
>
> Gramofile docs seem to say that I need ncurses from Hobbes. Got that.
> ncurses doc seems to imply that I need XFree86. Do I need that, too? I
> have looked at XFree86.org, and the latest OS/2 version seems to be
> V3.3.6 from 2002-08-09. Is that the latest?
>
> I have never used any of this stuff, so I ne a lot of help here!

Tom, I've never used Gramofile so I don't know. It's the only piece of
OS/2 audio software that I know of that claims to take care of clicks &
ticks, but I don't know how good it is.

May I make a suggestion? Transfer all your records to CD first without
doing any "processing" such as with Gramofile. Then you can enjoy the
tunes right away and not get caught up in the technological black hole
of trying to make it better.

We used some pretty advanced electronics in the studios when we had to
clean up old records for the shows. We used de-clickers, de-essers,
noise gates, eq-expansion, differential attack gates and probably other
stuff I've forgotten about. I built some of the boxes we used. But in
most cases the song sounded *better* when it hadn't been processed
because there's not much difference between the attack of an electric
guitar or close-mic'd piano and the attack of a click or pop, and the
equipment made everything sound "soft" while it was taking out the
sounds we didn't want. If you play your newly-transferred tunes for a
while and still want them processed you can always do the processing
later.

As for XFree86, the local expert on that is Tim Katz who usually comes
to the monthly SCOUG meetings. I don't think he reads this list.

- Peter

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