On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:42:05 -0700, Tony Rice wrote
(in article ):

I've looked at DINR and CEDAR but those are way way way too rich for my
blood. RayGun seems to be pretty good for the price.
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Not in my experience. Raygun is a *terrible* program, and sounds horrible --
at least the last time I tried it.

DINR has been effectively discontinued by Digidesign, so it's not really a
current program (hasn't been for about two years).

The Waves "Restoration" package is pretty good, at least for de-click and
de-crackle. I'm not as fond of the de-hissing tools. But it's expensive --
I think it's $1200 for the native/VST version. Digidesign's TDM plug-in
version of NoNoise and the other Sonic processors are in the same price
range, and I like their de-hissing package very much.

Probably the best affordable package I've found is Berkely Audio Software's
SoundSoap. I believe the regular $99 version has both standalone and VST
plug-in modes. Note that this is only for Mac OSX. For Windows, my
preference for a low-cost package is for Sound Forge's Noise Reduction 2.0,
which is about $200 or so from Sony.

--MFW