I'm not having any computer problems, but I've got a question regarding using Adobe Audition? Do any of you consider it a good idea to attempt a high hiss reduction and still keep the signal intact without loss of sound quality? I had done a test last night when recording from an old mono record of mine. (In fact, the original issue of Little Richard's hit Long Tall Sally, which had some slight noise.) I had made a decision to record from the record and make the recorded sound sample mono. After doing a light decrackle (I use Clickfix for this, instead of the standard click removal in Adobe Audition), I selected the entire file and went to the hiss reduction feature. I went to the graph and set it at -40db (the highest it goes), and set the noise floor slider bar to -36db. I chose to reduce the noise by 40db. When that was finished, I checked it out. The noise was reduced, but the signal was not affected. I had discovered that this may work for mono files, but stereo ones.... I'm not sure if that will work. Should I attempt it one channel at a time or not do that? When I try it on a stereo file, it often has no effect when I do it this way. I don't know how well it works if the file was recorded from a stereo record, but I know it doesn't work well if it's a stereo file recorded from a mono record. Anybody have anything to say or suggest I try?
