[Carey Carlan]

(Don Pearce) wrote in news:49477b34.503246718@localhost:

You've already had a lot of good advice about picking the best channel
and using that, but there is a tool you could try before doing that.
Adobe Audition and its predecessor CoolEdit have a tool called Centre
Channel Extractor. What it does is exactly what you say above. It
examines the stereo signal, amplifies whatever is identical in both
channels and suppresses whatever doesn't correlate - which would be
most of the noise.

Thanks, Don. I have Audition and am playing with the Center Channel
Extractor. It doesn't seem to be doing much good so far. I'm guessing it
expects a bit more civilized signal--not so far out of phase and with less
noise. I'll keep fiddling and see what I get.