Hi all.
Recently I acquired a recording on traded CD-Rs. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line someone was using a burner not quite up to standards, and this introduced a smorgasboard of "digital surface noise" - pops, clicks, et cetera.
These pops and clicks are generally too "scuffy" to be caught by a pop/click filter - if I turn the sensitivity low enough to actually detect the pops and clicks, it also detects lots of sound that isn't a pop nor even a click.
However, the show itself is, for all intents and purposes, a monoraul recording. And the pops and clicks tend to be in one channel at a time.
I know many sound editors offer a "remove vocals" feature, which removes everything that's in mono (or both channels at once). However, is there any way to do the
exact opposite of this - that is, remove anything that's not in both channels, and leave the rest? ("Remove music", I guess
)
I tried "removing vocals", then inverting the clicks and garbage that were left, then mixing that into the show - while it sounds better, it's still hardly ideal, and I get the feeling I'm not doing it right.
I have GoldWave and Audacity, and have access to WaveLab and Sound Forge. That's also pretty much my order of expertise - Goldwave > Audacity > WaveLab > Sound Forge.
So, if anyone would like to offer some help, my thanks would be a-plenty