Cleaning your tracks
You can choose special cleaning filters that help reduce the popping and hissing sounds in your tracks that are caused by the analog recording device. After you select the filters you want, you can preview what the tracks sound like with the filters applied. Analog Recorder applies the cleaning filters that you select to all of the tracks in the list.
To clean your tracks
- Select one or more tracks that you want to preview with the cleaning filters applied.
- As necessary, select one or both of the following check boxes.
Select |
To |
Reduce pops |
Decrease the popping sounds caused by "hiccups" or faint scratches in the original recording media. |
Reduce hiss |
Decrease the hissing sounds from your analog audio device. |
- Click the Preview button.
Analog Recorder plays the track with the selected filters applied. If you selected multiple tracks, Analog Recorder plays them in sequence.
- While Analog Recorder plays your music, you can use the following options:
- To change the volume, move the Volume slider
left to decrease or right to increase the volume level.
- To move forward or backward within the track, move the progress indicator to the right or left on the Seek bar
. You can also click anywhere on the bar to go immediately to that place within the track.
- To immediately begin playing a different track, double-click that track.
- To stop playing the track, click the Stop button
.
- If you want to change your cleaning filter choices, select or clear the check boxes, and then click the Preview button again.
- Click Next.
If you want to return to the previous page, click Back.
Notes
- Analog Recorder cannot apply different cleaning options to different tracks.
- If you want to see the complete name for a track in the Recorded tracks list, pause the pointer on that name.
- If the Reduce Hiss check box is not available, Analog Recorder did not detect any silence between tracks. Without these silent sections, Analog Recorder cannot identify any base level of background hissing or other noise that needs to be reduced. If you want to enable the Reduce Hiss check box, go back to the Record your music page, and record your music again, making sure there are silent sections at the beginning and end of your music. For example, you can record the silent sections that occur at the beginning or end of a record or cassette tape.
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