De-hissing cassette rips - any cool new tools for this?

rze99

Got a few remaining cassettes to Upload and digitise. With the power of AI these days are there any good new tools to use to de-hiss cassette rips?

DiscoStu

I think you can clean things up a bit in Audacity?
If you want to create/edit stems from the source audio then take a look at Moises.

spark240

RX7 ?

rze99

DiscoStu said:

I think you can clean things up a bit in Audacity?
If you want to create/edit stems from the source audio then take a look at Moises.

Audacity hasn’t occurred to me thanks. 

rze99

spark240 said:

RX7 ?

Only heard of the old car! Thank you 

Whitecat

spark240 said:

RX7 ?

RX is up to version 11 now.

marxski

Audacity does a good job as long as you have a bit of hiss at the beginning without music to make a noise profile from.

Caffeine_Vampire

Gaudio studio?

Stratocosta

https://www.ocenaudio.com/en/startpage

Oceanaudio also has an noise reduction option

octatonic

The annoying thing is different types of noise seem to be cleaned up best by different tools.
I had some mains hum across a pair of OH's today and the only thing that really worked was the ancient Waves X-Hum.

But the tools I use for restoration and noise reduction are:

Acon Digital
De-Revive Pro
Izotope RX 11 Pro
Waves Clarity
Waves X-Hum, X-Click, X-Crackle etc

I reach for Acon Digital the most.

barrettisgold

octatonic said:

The annoying thing is different types of noise seem to be cleaned up best by different tools.
I had some mains hum across a pair of OH's today and the only thing that really worked was the ancient Waves X-Hum.

But the tools I use for restoration and noise reduction are:

Acon Digital
De-Revive Pro
Izotope RX 11 Pro
Waves Clarity
Waves X-Hum, X-Click, X-Crackle etc

I reach for Acon Digital the most.

The Acon Digital tools are excellent. I’ve used them for a number of years for audio-post work.

Use the presets as a starting point but do tweak to taste, use the delta mode to hear what is being removed, sometimes multiple instances of a process on a light setting can yield better results than one instance on a stronger setting. The processing can introduce artifacts so it is a balance of reducing the unwanted whilst retaining the wanted - find a compromise you are happy with.

Jfingers

I'm a ridiculous amateur at this sort of thing so this isn't advice.

If it's old four track recordings 'mastered' to cassette I personally find the hiss to be part of the charm.

With my old stuff I tend to keep the warts and all version and another that I have attempted to clean up.

Many musicians have hissy music out there. Off the top of my head Daniel Johnston, Devendra Banhart and one of my faves Howe Gelb who even has a solo album entitled Hisser.

Brio

Were they recorded in Dobbly?