Hiss, Distortion vs Damaged Ears!

[Geirr]

OK - My hearing is beginning to degrade, in part due to an industrial accident years ago. I am slowly losing my sensitivity to hiss and distortion. This means that stuff sounds OK to me, while a bunch of folks aged 17 - 25 tell me the audio is noisy - but I can't hear the difference!

Anyways, I am trying to use an OLD, 2nd Generation trailer as a SILLY AMV project. I have tried to clean it up with Cool Edit, but it doesn't seem to have come clean completely. Here's a link to an mp3 of it:

www.ados.com/~guy1656/3-min.mp3

(6.4MB)

My question: Is there any hope? (Source mat'l is from 1985 or so, off VHS tape.)

- G

[madmallard]

was the vhs tape in SP?

[Geirr]

I have already extracted the mp3 using a friend's capture card. I am seeking to clean up the mp3. That is the only file I have to work with right now, besides a 'scratch' mpg of the original trailer, which I am using as a storyboard for anime cuts and some original animation as well.

- G

[madmallard]

you cant really 'extract' an mp3 from an analog source. First you capture and convert it.

And you didn't really answer my question...

But if you are trying to post-process an mp3 instead of a wav, you're basically adding yet another generation of sound quality loss. You don't want to do it this way if you can help it, its needlessly crippling.

Ideally, you would go back to the original tape, make a wav file, edit that, and make it an mp3 the very last step.