BIAS SoundSoap 2 ( Windows/Macintosh )

Average customer rating: 4.5

An interesting tool.
BIAS SoundSoap 2
Great way to enhance your hobby
SoundSoap is excellent help in digitizing you LP collection
ease-of-use lives up to billing

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BIAS SoundSoap 2 ( Windows/Macintosh )

Manufacturer: Bias
Product Group: Video Games
Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: B0007D8R2I

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Product Description

SoundSoap 2 is the ultimate audio cleaning solution. It easily & instantly removes noise from digital audio or video files. If your recordings need some cleaning up, or even just a little freshening up, count on this software to clean it up faster, easier, and more affordably. You don't even need to be an audio expert -- just click the one-step "learn noise" button, and watch SoundSoap automatically clean your audio. SoundSoap 2 can work as a standalone or as a plug-in for most Audio Unit, DirectX, RTAS or VST host Programs. Use SoundSoap's one-step Learn Noise button to automatically reduce noise ? or use its manual controls for more advanced applications Includes Enhance slider for additional tone control Standalone version works with most QuickTime or Windows Media compatible audio or video file (AVI, DV,. WAV, SDII, AIFF, MP3, MP4 & many more) Preserve Voice button helps reduce noise (and other audio) outside of the range of the human voice Hum removal optimized for 60 Hertz (North America, etc.) or 50 Hertz (Europe, Australia, etc.) System Requirements - G4 or G5 Apple Macintosh desktop, PowerBook, or iBook (>=400MHz processor recommended) Macintosh OS 10.2 minimum; Windows requires Pentium III or Pentium IV desktop or laptop (>=600MHz processor recommended) running Windows XP Home or Professional? Standalone mode requires QuickTime 6.5 (included) and Windows Media 9 (included)

Customer Reviews:

An interesting tool........2007-06-02

I saw the demo of the program and thought, "That's exactly what I need!". I have been working on the post side of a movie Quest for the Golden Rod for over a year now (...) and due to the actors spreading to the four winds I'm stuck with the audio I got from my Sennheiser MKE-300. Which isn't bad, but not great eithor. I was forced to use it both in doors and outside having little "problems" like airplans, TOO LOUD of a river bank and of course the ever famous electronic hum (fridges). So I crossed my fingers and dropped $90 on this tool, plugged it into Adobe Premeir Pro 2.0 and was amazed that it was VERY simular to the results one would expect from a standard Noise Gate feature. Then I watched the online tutorials and learned the magical way of "learn sound" and that helped. I mean it was kind of remarkable it would remove very specific frequences and would behind only the voice (if you desired it). But here in lies it's flaw. DISTORTION. The more noise removal the quiter the audio gets and the more "canny" (that's how I put it) the voice becomes. Still legable and clear, but very distorted. So if you are doing a documentary then A++ if you are doing a film let's hope the background audio you are trieing to remove isn't too bad. Works best against repetitive back ground noise like humming. Very little distortion there.

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BIAS SoundSoap 2 .......2007-05-15

BIAS SoundSoap 2 its all that its crack up to be!
In other words ITS GREAT!!!

Roland Allen

Great way to enhance your hobby.......2007-03-28

After having a few problems registering the product over the Internet due to my computer's firewall, the product has performed flawlessly. It does take a little time to learn how to use it to it's fullest potential since the documentation is a little thin on information. Overall though, it is a great product.

SoundSoap is excellent help in digitizing you LP collection.......2007-03-09

Do you have a stack of LPs sitting in the storage that you never play anymore? You might choose to digitize them.

Everyone creates their own process to do this. I combined the Ion USB turntable, Toast Titanium, a nice inexpensive audio application called Sound Studio and SoundSoap 2 to create my process.

I first had to question the expense of digitizing LPs vs buying CDs or digital music and, foremost, I wondered if I could expect that digitizing LPs would produce good results at all?

I think, if you have a lot of LP's, and the time.... that it is worth the cost to buy what you need to do the digitizing. Some of your LPs will have problems that are commonly referred to as "pops" and "clicks". SoundSoap does an excellent job of removing these artifacts. SoundSoap can turn a good to very good recording into near mint.

Through studio head phones I compared the results of a SoundSoap scrubbed record selection to the same commercial CD selection. I could hear very little difference. Without head phones, just listening like you normally would... I assure you that you are not going to be able to tell any difference.

I also used Sound Soap on many 78s, some that are in rough shape with surface noise as well as pops and clicks. SoundSoap helped to clean them without leaving behind the "digital" artifacts or "metallic" sound that I heard using other software.

Sound Soap is also easy to use and you'll shortly get the hang of it without resorting to the manual.

My one suggestion to make SoundSoap more versatile would be to add an export option to MP3. The "save as" selections are WAV AIFF and SDII.

ease-of-use lives up to billing.......2007-01-16

I've been using SoundSoap 2 to clean up analog-to-digital conversions of my LP collection... it really is easy to use once you've watched the video to learn the basics. The thing it doesn't do stand-alone (since it's designed as a plug-in to other systems) is split a file into pieces (i.e. splitting a side of an LP into songs). I've been using a freeware tool from Exact Audio Copy that does a nice job of that... and my vinyl has never sounded so good.

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