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Holistic Guidance - BIAS SoundSoap 2 ( Windows/Macintosh )
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List Price: $129.00
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Manufacturer: Bias
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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Bias
EAN: 0667100009670
Feature: Audio noise reduction for digital video, digital audio, music, and dialogue
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Bias
Manufacturer: Bias
Model: biass22
Platform: No Operating System
Publisher: Bias
Special Features: Whether you're shooting videos, restoring vinyl LPs, building websites, creating presentations, or making music, you probably care about your audio. Now, there's an easy-to use tool that will make your work sound better than ever. BIAS SoundSoap scrubs audio squeaky clean - dramatically reducing tape hiss, clicks and crackles, buzzing and hum, rumble, and most other types of unwanted noise. Archiving your record collection to CD? Let SoundSoap buff out those scratches. Burning CDs from your old
Studio: Bias
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Features
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Audio noise reduction for digital video, digital audio, music, and dialogue
Intelligent software algorithms for one-click sound restoration
Dramatically reduces all types of unwanted noise; intuitive user interface
Preserve Voice helps reduce noise outside range of the human voice
Includes Enhance slider for additional tone control
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Editorial Reviews:
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SoundSoap 2 is the ultimate audio cleaning solution. It easily & instantly removes noise from digital audio or video files. If your recordings need some cleaning up, or even just a little freshening up, count on this software to clean it up faster, easier, and more affordably. You don't even need to be an audio expert -- just click the one-step "learn noise" button, and watch SoundSoap automatically clean your audio. SoundSoap 2 can work as a standalone or as a plug-in for most Audio Unit, DirectX, RTAS or VST host Programs. Use SoundSoap's one-step Learn Noise button to automatically reduce noise ? or use its manual controls for more advanced applications Includes Enhance slider for additional tone control Standalone version works with most QuickTime or Windows Media compatible audio or video file (AVI, DV,. WAV, SDII, AIFF, MP3, MP4 & many more) Preserve Voice button helps reduce noise (and other audio) outside of the range of the human voice Hum removal optimized for 60 Hertz (North America, etc.) or 50 Hertz (Europe, Australia, etc.) System Requirements - G4 or G5 Apple Macintosh desktop, PowerBook, or iBook (>=400MHz processor recommended) Macintosh OS 10.2 minimum; Windows requires Pentium III or Pentium IV desktop or laptop (>=600MHz processor recommended) running Windows XP Home or Professional? Standalone mode requires QuickTime 6.5 (included) and Windows Media 9 (included)
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Perfect Product
Comment: for cleaning snap, crackle and pops from your recordings. With just minimal adjustments, I was able to remove all of the above from old and battered 33s and 78s that I transfer to CD using my beloved ION TTUSB turntable. These two products are the best money I've ever spent to save my favorite music. Unbeatable!
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Summary: Beware of faulty product activation process
Comment: This may be a fine product. It appears to do exactly what I need. Unfortunately, I'm not able to launch the application. After buying direct from the Bias website on a Sunday afternoon (could have saved $50 buying form Amazon, but I'm on deadline for a project) I am unable to authorize my legally purchased software. The application crashes during the authorization process. Since the software won't run without authorization, I'm out of luck.
I've contacted tech support and submitted an email authorization request. I received an automatic response warning me that it may be 1 to 2 business days before I hear back from Bias. I might as well have ordered from Amazon.
To be honest, if I had known that SoundSoap used this sort of software authorization scheme I probably wouldn't have purchased the product. This sort of restrictive DRM almost always harms legitimate consumers while doing nothing to stop piracy.
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Summary: DISAPPOIINTED
Comment: Expensive program with almost no features other than what it says it does. Poor instructions on usage. I have had two months and have yet been unable to successfully utilize.
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Summary: SoundSoap 2 a Handy Addition to a DSP Toolkit
Comment: The SoundSoap 2 software (running on my older Mac) is a neat tool to go with BIAS's Peak recording software. It works quite well in dealing with my albums (33 rpm records, licorice pizza, stacks o' wax, etc.) and the pops, clicks, and scratches that sometimes came on a brand new vinyl LP. You should take a tour of the BIAS website and watch / listen to the demo they have for SoundSoap. It will do all that, but it is possible to overdo the signal processing and swamp out some of the music content. However, that can be the case with other click repair software too. The best approach I've found is not to try to create a 'master recording' with studio like audio qualities, but instead focus on cleaning up an obnoxious record or cassette.
SS's 'learn noise' feature is dead handy, and the 50/60 cycle buzz remover works great. Best of all is being able to keep your master digital recording (mine done through BIAS Peak LE) and play with the settings in SoundSoap. Too little click removal? Too much removal of crackles and the music suffers? Delete the file and try again. A very easy to use, effective, and affordable tool for the music lover who's facing a stack of wax unplayed for years. I breathed new life into Moody Blues 'Days of Future Passed' and Horst Jankowski's 'Walk in the Black Forest.' Next up, the overplayed and abused vinyl of The Doors. I wonder how that will turn out...?BIAS SoundSoap 2 ( Windows/Macintosh )Bias SoundSoap 2, Hybrid CD Win/MacBIAS SoundSoap 2 ( Windows/Macintosh )
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Summary: An interesting tool.
Comment: I saw the demo of the program and thought, "That's exactly what I need!". I have been working on the post side of a movie Quest for the Golden Rod for over a year now (...) and due to the actors spreading to the four winds I'm stuck with the audio I got from my Sennheiser MKE-300. Which isn't bad, but not great eithor. I was forced to use it both in doors and outside having little "problems" like airplans, TOO LOUD of a river bank and of course the ever famous electronic hum (fridges). So I crossed my fingers and dropped $90 on this tool, plugged it into Adobe Premeir Pro 2.0 and was amazed that it was VERY simular to the results one would expect from a standard Noise Gate feature. Then I watched the online tutorials and learned the magical way of "learn sound" and that helped. I mean it was kind of remarkable it would remove very specific frequences and would behind only the voice (if you desired it). But here in lies it's flaw. DISTORTION. The more noise removal the quiter the audio gets and the more "canny" (that's how I put it) the voice becomes. Still legable and clear, but very distorted. So if you are doing a documentary then A++ if you are doing a film let's hope the background audio you are trieing to remove isn't too bad. Works best against repetitive back ground noise like humming. Very little distortion there.
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