(MacBookPro, Snow leopard)
I took my reel to reel tape (spoken voices) into a tape conversion service and had it transferred to a CD as a .WAV file.
The quality is very good, but there's a lot of background noise, including a ticking cuckoo clock.
I know how to remove the background noise using Audacity effects, and to my untrained ear, it sounds better.
Question is: Does removing background noise affect anything else on the tape? Will I lose anything important? What should I look out for?
Thanks
Removing BackGround Noise and Quality
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This forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.Please state which version of macOS you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
Re: Removing BackGround Noise and Quality
If Noise Removal is used too aggressively it will damage the remaining audio, giving it a metallic bubbly sort of sound.
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