New at editing questions

[WendyDepp]

I have a couple of questions:

 

I am new to editing and new to using Wave Pad. I work for an evangelist whose father was a well known evangelist in the 1950's along with many others. His son, whom I work for, is now starting to duplicate some of the famous evangelist and ministers during his father's time. The recordings were taken from 8-16 mm tape and put on to cassettes. I am now dubbing over from cassette to CD and editing from there.

 

I am trying to remove an echo and some background noises. When I use the noise reduction, it removes some of the hissing and hums, but then makes it harder to hear. What am I doing wrong or what do I need to do before noise reduction. I have tried many variations of the filters, etc, but still not getting the result I had hoped for.

 

As I do not understand, YET, the use of the equalizer and how to know what is the right Hz and dB to adjust, I am learning as I go. I need to make faster progress on these.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Wendy

Jack Coe Ministries

[crferguson]

I've been doing some conversions myself and have found that if I run the noise reduction first and then amplify it brings the volume back up to good hearing level. Also, on old recordings like that I found the High Pass Filter at somewhere between 150 and 300 works great for taking the muffled, cassette sound out and bring it up closer to a new recording feel.

 

Probably way too late for a reply on this, but I only found this awesome program a week ago. God bless!