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[abbie]

Does anyone have an opinion as to what is better for audio restoration (e.g copying records) and overall noise reduction? From the little that I know, Toast/SpinDoctor allows noise reduction and graphic EQ and other features favorable to restoring vinyl recordings while Ray Gun can run as a VST plugin making it useful for multitrack recording. Toast is considerably cheaper I believe.

Thanks...

[DavidK]

Vinyls restoration is one of the most difficult technique. You often create more artifacts than restauration.

The only sytems which really do the job (after long hours of work with an experienced user) are SonicSolutions (with expensive restauration options) or Cedar (hardware od software).

Theses systems are not 'magic'. You need to spend a lot of time to avoid artifacts while restoring the signal.

The process is really complex and a lot of parameters need to be adjusted to get a clean result.

IMO, any cheap (and easy) application won't succeed to get a good result (without artifacts), because it lacks of parameters.

You'd better to wash your records with water + surgical spirit. You will archieve better results....

HTH

Another way (very expensive )
hardware: TC M6000

[abbie]

Thanks for the opinions.  I am going to go with Toast Deluxe since it is relatively cheap and I am not that picky.