Right now just using Elements, what is the very fastest way of workflow ? Assuming I always want the very same Sonnox settings, what is the fastest way of doing this ? I need help here as I can’t get my head around even the slow method, that seems like record, then playback all over again through the Sonnox plugin then save, like over 80 minutes for one record ? Or can I record, set Sonnox and save without playing/recording all over again ?Īs I said, I can’t get my head around this. And the workflow would be, put the record on, press record, when finished select save, job done, declicked and dehissed ? Can I set the Sonnox plugins just once, and then record all of them one after another. If I get the full version, and say for example this month I have 2,000 Motown records that all need, all but identical re-work. So I have at the moment, two burning questions : I am still very wet behind the ears with digital audio processing, but that’s why I’m here. When I bought Wavelab Elements, I looked at the comparison chart, it didn’t tell me that Elements would not do what I wanted, hence my severe disappointment. But put a collection of 20,000 records into the equation, then what ? The Cedar’s and Hilo would just get on and do the job, and they do. Yes, maybe the results could be surpassed on a few records. I have both Cedar racks running with a Lynx Hilo, and remarkably they automatically do the job. However if I come across something that is of the moment, my iPhone 4s will at a push produce press quality images. When I’m working for the media I shoot full frame with a professional camera and always in RAW. Let’s take the Photoshop thing, I have had the full version since 2.5 a whole 22 years ! Yes if I were doing a single important scan it would be at 1200dpi and I would lavish time and care over it. Thanks for all your considered help, and apologies for my earlier grumpiness ! There are a number of knowledgeable people on this forum who are engaged in restoration work and I’m sure there is a willingness to listen as well as to offer help wherever possible – and welcome to the wonderful world of digital audio processing! Nevertheless, perhaps I really am misunderstanding your reasons for wanting to do what you set out in your original post. and only at the end render a new image at the desired resolution. You would of course instead keep the original scan, save it only as PSD after importation, make any adjustments using Layers etc. Since you mention you have experience with Photoshop, allow me to make another analogy: imagine you make a high-resolution scan from an old photograph and load it into Photoshop Elements, apply “Auto Smart Fix” (I think it’s called), save it as a JPEG and then delete the original scan that’s the closest I can think of recording directly via the Sonnox plugins bundled with WaveLab, even if it were possible to do so with WaveLab Elements 8. I am not aware of any automated process that can deliver optimal results every time, for the simple reason that the input material is a non-deterministic variable. The Cedars you mention are top-end hardware solutions, but I would argue that with even WaveLab 8 Elements and the proper plugins and skills (and enough time and patience!) it is possible by means of judicious manual restoration to surpass them in terms of the end result. Recording the source material through any processing stage, hardware or software, means it’s irrevocably changed even before it’s captured. The reason for this is that the source media is often fragile and in some cases there may be only one opportunity to capture the material (baked tape, for example). I would concur with Arjan P, and that is also my approach – make an archival transcript (recording) first, and do the processing after the fact. Dave, it’s not so much that we’re missing the point, it’s that I don’t think any of us would approach restoration in this manner.
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