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NoNoise Process

The Sound Works audio restoration process is more than someone running your tape through an equalizer. An equalizer is just glorified bass and treble controls.

NoNoise is our premium audio restoration tool at Sound Works. We have many other items in our audio toolbox; analogue and digital EQ, digital compression and expansion, and many scientific filters. For serious audio restoration our first step is NoNoise. Many projects require a combination of tools to be applied. On projects that are less demanding or cost sensitive, the audio toolbox can be applied without NoNoise.

Because noise is not the same on all recordings, Sound Works first evaluates your recording. The tape audio is loaded into our digital workstation and various combinations of our audio toolbox are applied. The resulting cleaned-up audio product can then be heard by our customer to demonstrate how well the tape can be restored. The evaluation costs $100, and is applied as nonrefundable deposit. The evaluation deposit is applied toward any subsequent audio restoration services. Clients are not obligated to do any work past the evaluation stage. See our audio restoration price list for more information.

NoNoise is best described by it's creator . . . Sonic Studio. Here is what they say about it:

 

NoNoise is the most-effective audio toolbox available for removing pops, transients, background hum, and distortions, and it can repair, reduce, or eliminate unwanted noise at full 24-bit precision and at 44.1 or 48 kHz. NoNoise is preferred by digital audio engineers because they need the absolute control and powerful capabilities it offers. And it's demanded by forensic engineers for reconstructing black box and phone conversations because it offers better noise reduction and lower loss in fidelity.

You can eliminate almost any kind of noise or distortion with NoNoise - and without timbal shifts. NoNoise lets you reduce or eliminate fixed frequency noise caused by AC hum, HVAC units, cameras, and generators. Noise from mechanical damage to recording surfaces, transients caused by splices, and channel breakup from wireless microphones can also be reduced or entirely eliminated - as can distortion caused by overloads or nonlinearities.

Even broad-band noise isn't safe from NoNoise - modulation, asperity, and other self-noise can be suppressed, as can ambient room noise. The result is a cleaner, noise-free recording which has lost little of its former fidelity - its 24-bit precision and high sampling rate give Sonic a clear advantage over other systems. The first step in any restoration or denoise process is identification of problem areas, especially buzzes, hum, or other fixed frequency noise. NoNoise makes this step easy by quickly performing a Fast or Discreet Fourier Transform (FFT or DFT), creating a graphic representation of your material.

A 44k point transform helps you identify problem areas, as do bandwidth and center frequency measurements you can take with a mouse click. Once you've uncovered harmonic and related noise problems, NoNoise lets you design your own set of equalizers to correct them. Fourth order parametrics, shelves, and bandpass/bandstop filters as well as infinitely deep notches let you "surgically" remove unwanted energy. Repair clicks and other transient noise problems with robust declicking functions Highly productive; most tools and filters run as background processes while you work on other projects.

Next, Sonic's production declicker automatically replaces pops, clicks, ticks, and other noise with high fidelity resynthesized audio, producing seamless replacement of the damaged material. The declicker even offers separate settings for speech, music, and mixed audio tracks.

NoNoise's decrackler cleans up distortion other systems can't conquer, including clipped digital recordings, over modulated analog - even surface noise from a transcription lacquer. Like other Sonic tools, decrackler runs in the background, freeing you to work on other projects.

NoNoise Highlights
Quickly eliminate or suppress noise with little fidelity loss; 24-bit precision and 44.1/48 kHz sampling rates. Cleans and restore music and language archives, field production audio, forensic audio, and in many other applications Create custom EQ with a wide range of parameters to deal with even the most difficult problems Reduce or eliminate distortion with the decrackler - the most powerful tool of its kind.

 

   
   
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