cool edit help needed

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Ive never had very good luck with cool edit compared to sound forge. I have a wav that I saved from an vhs-avi capture and its quite hissy. I wanted to clean the hiss out without killing very much quality. Ive tryed to do it with sound forge twice by using 20-band eq and lowering the highs a bit and by using the sonic foundry noise reduction 2.0 but both times the result didnt sound very good. However, i tryed using cool edit's hiss reduction filter set to light reduction and it sounds perfect, but theres just one problem. It wont process the wav file. I mean i can open the his reduction window and "Preview" the hiss reduction in action but when i hit Ok it does absolutley nothing to the wav file (no processing or anything). Is there something else i have to do to get cool edit to process the wav with the hiss reduction?

The wav is 48000hz/16bit/stereo but the source is hifi mono (i guess it can be called that). I also want to somehow create the illusion of stereo sound without making it echo or sound like a parking garage or something. Any ideas?

Any help appreachiated.

[Ody1]

Normally when you hit OK the filter is applied to the sound.

What version of cool edit do you have?
Maybe you have a demo version or something. Or maybe there's something wrong with the program's installation. Try uninstall and reinstall, or better d/l the latest version (cool edit pro 2.1). It's fully functional for 21 days.

Instead of hiss reduction try noise reduction. It'll have better results.

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I finally figured it out. Time length seems to be what the problem was. The file i was trying to fix was 2hrs,10mins.. I highlighted half of the file, 1hr,05mins, of the clip and tryed using the hiss reduction again and it worked. I think that there is some sort of time limit barrier when using the hiss reduction. Im using cooledit 2.1 pro btw.

[angelleye]

I'm having the exact same problem. Hissy audio with my capture and I'm using Cool Edit Pro 2.1. In the preview of Hiss Reduction window it sounds great. When I save howerver the WAV sounds the same as original.

My original is only 6 min long but I went ahead and tried only doing a small part like you said...still doesn't work. You sure you didn't accidentally do something else???

I'm tearing my hair out over this.

Thanks!

Drew