VHS audio

[Aya Blackbird]

Hello! This is my first post here, so i know almost nothing about audio, video.

Please, sorry for the crap english i might use (as i'm not english :O )

a friend of mine took some cartoons on a VHS to the pc, but the audio is REALLY crap...volume is very high, lots of noises (like something's frying), very high basses... could please someone tell me what plugin/filter I should use?

ps. I can send via pm a very little sample just for let know those who wants to help me how bad it is.

[ukb008]

If you want to watch the VHS (ugh!) tape with its crappy audio, then you have to use a high-end audio system with sophisticated features like Dolby NR and Graphic Equaliser. You can then tweak on till you get your desired or near-desired output.

As a newbie myself, I can tell you that tinkering with a VHS source is a waste of time because a look at the calender will tell you that we have moved on to 2005.

And, really, again as a newbie, I can tell you that I have found these fora to be enormously useful if you really participate, which means you've really got to do some readings at a near-constant pace. There are people here with monstrous skills and enormous knowledge; all of them will (surprisingly) stoop to help you only if they feel that you have tried your best first.

Regards.

[CWR03]

Does your friend still have the VHS tapes? Chances are he recorded with the audio set too high. It would be much easier to re-record them than to fix it, not to mention some distortion will remain no matter what you try to do.

[Aya Blackbird]

Does your friend still have the VHS tapes?

unfortunately no :(

[CWR03]

In that case, you'll have to demux the audio from the file, edit it and remux it. There are plenty of guides here for doing the de/remuxing. I convert the file to WAV, edit it with Cool Edit, convert it to MP3 and remux it.

[ukb008]

Okay, here goes. Read this (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/index.html) guide for preliminary understanding. Capture (http://www.stefanstrobl.at/doom9/ACG41.zip) your VHS video with guidance from Wilbert, and help from this FAQ (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=32575) also, then extract and edit (http://www.adobe.com/tips/aud15freqedit/pdfs/aud15freqedit.pdf) your audio to remove noise and artifact using Adobe Audition which is the new name for CoolEdit Pro. After that, put your audio and video back together again in a suitable container, burn to CD.

Regards.

[Aya Blackbird]

thanks for your help.i downloaded audition, and it looks a very powerful tool. anyway, i'm still having many problems: the audio is so bad that in two hours of edits i still don't have the track i want....