![]() ![]() The standalone version of SoundSoap 2.0 also includes transports (play, pause, and so on) and user-selectable in and out points to allow processing specific sections of files. Other controls include a Remove Click & Crackle slider, which is designed to fix pops associated with recordings made from vinyl a Preserve Voice button, which bypasses vocal-frequency processing to preserve a natural sound a Remove Rumble button, which removes low-frequency rumble and an Enhance slider, which attempts to restore the tonal quality of recordings made from degraded media. But unless you read the user guide, you may not understand a few of the controls such as the 60Hz Remove Hum button, which specifically removes electrical hum. The SoundSoap 2.0 interface, which contains more than a dozen controls including knobs, sliders, and buttons, is uncluttered and generally well designed. SoundSoap 2.0's well-laid-out interface makes it fairly simple to use. Installation on a 2.3GHz Pentium 4 PC went off without a hitch, and throughout testing, SoundSoap 2.0 worked flawlessly with the system's consumer-grade SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Pro PC sound card. SoundSoap 2.0 arrived in a standard but informatively illustrated software box containing a PC/Mac software CD-ROM and a single card with the serial number printed on it. SoundSoap 2.0 isn't foolproof, and mastering it takes a little practice, but if you want to clean up digital recordings made from vinyl or cassettes, improve rough-sounding MP3 files, or enhance the audibility of dialogue in camcorder footage, SoundSoap 2.0 is a great choice. Today, you can do a lot more, thanks to software applications such as Bias SoundSoap 2.0 ($99), which precisely isolates and eliminates digital-audio-file noise problems such as clicks, pops, electrical hum, rumble, and background hiss. ![]() Back in the analog days of home recording, using noise reduction meant switching on Dolby B and hoping for the best. ![]()
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