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| Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 12 Deluxe | 
 enlarge | From: Magix Entertainment Ltd
Category: Software
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £17.45
You Save: £12.54 (42%)
New (8) from £17.45
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 127
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.6 x 2.1
EAN: 4017218561663
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 2-3 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 It's Getting Better June 13, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
One of the better software packages of this type. I found the music editor (for getting rid of major "clicks") excellent, although you're better of using a graphics tablet and pen for greater accuracy.
Gets rid of most the basic vinyl faults easily and quickly, to leave a good recording to burn on cd.
I found one good example of this software in work on YouTube, well worth tracking down.
On the downside, AC Lab (when I put a split mp3 track) annoyingly did not load the second part, but other software does, also refused to load mp2 tracks, again other software does...
The manual still leaves a lot to be desired, and as some of the help screen has some of the index titles and the actual screen dumps in German a certain sloppiness is involved.
With a bit more tweaking it could be a perfect piece of software.
Remember though that this is a great piece of software for basic audio to cd recording, and well worth the money.
Works ok with vista.
Could be great.... February 24, 2008
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
Magix Audio Cleaning Studio seems to be the current market leader for cleaning up old LP's etc - and it's pretty good. In terms of the balance between effective cleaning and retention of sound quality, it's not quite as good as Steinberg Clean (Versions 3 or 4, not the problematic Version 5). But Steinberg, anyway, seems to have disappeared.
What Audio Cleaning Lab has over Steinberg is that it's much more flexible. You can experiment with effects without clogging up your hard-drive with redundant files, and for complilations you can adjust individual volume and equalisation settings. You get both a standard equaliser and a parametric equaliser - the latter allowing you to adjust literally whatever frequencies you choose.
Some of the other effects are also useful, though a fair number of the 40 odd effects claimed by Magix amount to little more than variants on the loudness control theme.
But there is one major negative with this package: no 'go to next track' button. If you're working on a compilation, this can drive you to distraction. Every time you need to move to working on the next track, you've either got to go via 2 drop down lists, or zoom out far enough to get the relevant track into the picture. This ommission is surprising; it's a fairly standard feature with most other packages.
The expectation that this would be put right was my main reason for buying Version 12 when I'd already already got Version 11. If you've got 11, there's not a lot of reason to shell out for 12. The main additions are a second de-esser - more adjustable than the basic one, but still essentially a treble-muter, and a 'pycho-energiser' which I won't comment on because I don't understand it well enough to get it to do anything useful.
The other bonus is that when you open the programme a picture now flashes up of a nineteen-year-old female eyeing you seductively from under an enormous pair of headphones. Perhaps the marketing genius who thought of this might conjure with the idea that it's actually trivialising - not of 'women', but of the people who built this software and the people who use it.
 fantastic for the cost February 7, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Introduction
To commemorate the passing of a dear relative, i found an analog audio cassette of conversations we had from years ago. As this was from the 1970's, the sound had suffered parasitic degradation such as loud hiss. So I had a look around for a sound editing software.
Is it very complicated to learn?
The basic rules of this application are in three stages; import, cleanin + mastering, and export. The video you can see on the amazon page is taken from the 'Magix' install disk.
In my case. to connect a cassette player to my computer, I needed a a jack plug, (available elsewhere) to connect the cassette-recorder headphone socket to the input of my computers sound card. When you select the audio file you wish to improve, the file is usually shown by a graph of amplitude and time. There is a auto- Analysis functions, or if you wish more depth, then you could click the controls for this. In response is displayed a metaphorical 'rack' of electronic equipment dedicated to customised individual manipulations. This makes it a lot easier to use and see how to apply it.
Does it work and is it worth the money?
My view that in the case of vocal recordings, is to return it to the original quality. If you use this application for a few hours, then the majority of the remarkable improvements can be used successfully. In my case the abilities of this software was stretched to nearly it limits, but if the recording is not played loudly, the resulting improved sound is remarkably crystal clear and hiss free.
So if your careful, the improvements that can be applied is truly remarkable. And for so little cash is a one of the bests applications. In my opinion many musical files could benefit from this remarkable software application.
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