Program for vinyl pops & cracks

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 5 Feb 2004 7:25 pm

Am presently transferring a bunch of old lp's and cassettes to CD. Can anyone recommend a program to remove some of the pops and cracks on the lp's?

Les Green

Tom Diemer · Post by **Tom Diemer** » 6 Feb 2004 4:06 am

I used to use Cool Edit 2000 with the noise reduction plug in for that - did a pretty good job. I heard Wave corrector works pretty well, never tried it myself.

Here is a list of several, mostly shareware. You could download and try them out, see if they work for you.
http://www.sonicspot.com/samplerestorers.html

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 6 Feb 2004 7:10 am

Thanks Tom. I'll give them a try. At present I'm using "Ripvinyl" to get them into the computer, which does an excellent job by the way for a $7 program, but some are in very bad shape. Thanks again.
Les

Wayne Carver · Post by **Wayne Carver** » 6 Feb 2004 8:45 am

This company makes a program called "Depopper". If you do a search here on the forum you can find other that use it. I have about decided to use ripvinyl and depopper when i convert my lps to cd. These two programs are cheap. Did you find ripvinyl to your liking? Here's the link to depopper. http://www.droidinfo.com/software/depopper/

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 6 Feb 2004 12:19 pm

I use a program called DART Pro(Digital Audio Processing Technology). It's kinda pricey but really has some neat features. Check it out at http://www.dartpro.com.

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 6 Feb 2004 12:31 pm

Wayne,
Haven't been using "Rip" very long but so far it does exactly what it's advertised to do. The only problem I've had is getting it to split tracks on a very noisy LP. You may have to split a few manually but that's easy to do. Anyway, pretty good program for $7. Hope this helps, Wayne.
Les

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 8 Feb 2004 5:45 pm

Wayne,
Just downloaded the trial version of "depopper" and must say it works excellent. Really cleaned up a couple of lp's for me. Thanks for the tip.
Les

Tommy Mc · Post by **Tommy Mc** » 11 Feb 2004 3:30 am

Hi guys....I've tried all three programs mentioned. I would rank them:
1. CoolEdit
2. Depopper
3. Dart
For the money IMHO Depopper is the best value, and nearly as good as CoolEdit except in extreme cases.
For those interested, I did a side by side test of a real scratchy record processed with Depopper and CoolEdit. you can download it here: http://angelfire.com/vt2/tommymc3/DepopTest.zip <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tommy Mc on 11 February 2004 at 03:34 AM.]</p></FONT>