sound card recommendations?

[Guest_imported]

Hi guys

I am trying to bring some of my old black plastic records
back to life. What kind of sound card should I get and what
software do I need.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Just about any reasonable sound card will do, eg SBLive, Turtle Beach Montego, Yamaha, etc. Don't get the "player" versions, tho'

Sonic Foundry's Noise Reduction plug-in is my de-noiser of choice, but it's expensive, and depends on you already owning a plug-in compatible host application.

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/Products/NewShowProduct.asp?PID=14

An excellent (and effective) shareware product is CoolEdits ClickFix plug-in. If you're into Audio, you already have CoolEdit ;-)

http://www.dasound.com/programs/193/

Wave Corrector is another good suite, but I find it fiddly to use

http://www.wavecor.co.uk/

I hope this helps

 

[Dreadnought]

I had pretty good results using the Creative Sounblaster Platinum 5.1 with this livedrive thingy.

I'ts kinda expensive but in some tests it even beats a Creamware Pulsar II.

The CoolEdit audio cleanup plugin is pretty good yeah...

I noticed that the sound becomes a bit more umm..."deep" there where you used the click/hiss/pop-removers.

But I guess there is no program that does it much better except for the really expensive stuff.