Best Sounding Software?

[Neruda]

Hello Rahan,

as far as I read you have tested the Stello 220 MKII. Now I would like to buy this DAC and connect it to my notebook through a good USB cable. In my notebook I have Windows VISTA installed. Could you please confirm me if I'm going to have any issue or any lower quality in reproducing music through this kind of equipment ?

As far as I know Windows Vista does not require any ASIO (or it seems that using them is not affecting the quality).

Which is your experience about ? Do you suggest any software like Foobar2000 ?

 

Thanks,

 

Neruda

 

ITALY

 

[PeterSt]

Hi there Neruda,

 

Welcome here, and allow me ...

My eyes fell on your Stello question, and I know the guy in this post is always raving about it : http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=935.msg7474#msg7474

I am not sure though whether he has the 220 MKII, so you might ask him. He is focused on XXHighEnd though, but if you read that thread in there I estimate you won't mind. :-)

 

Best,

Peter

 

[Neruda]

Thank you for your help.

Bye

 

Neruda

 

[Annalucy]

I'm looking for some software for cleaning some recordings that I've made, in particular removing a unwanted reference signal from a clean signal. Basically there's a lot of bleed from the drums into the vocal mic, which annoyingly has delay on it, so as well as getting drum bleed there's also delayed drum bleed (very annying)! I know that there exists 'textbook' algorithms to do this (i.e. it's used in pilot cockpits to remove the sound of the engine from the pilots microphone or in noise cancelling headphones) but I don't know any tools that are able to do this. Can anyone help? Thanks.

 

[damien78]

@Annalucy: iZotope RX is specialized in audio cleaning, and has an advanced alogrithm that should make what you want, called "Spectral Repair".

The only caveat is that it's professional software, not free: $349 for the standard version.

 

Damien

 

[soundrecordist]

Question for Chris Connaker, yes I'm a newbie but I have worked as sound recordist for film & tv, about 20years.

What I have put together so far: 1 x Genelec 7060B powered sub, 2 x 8040A powered monitor speakers, 1 x RME Fireface 400 AD/DA converter. I've just purchased the new MacBook pro 13" with Intel core i7, 2.7GHz processor & 4GB of Ram and loaded with pure music and hoping to get into the high res music game, but this is were I get alittle stuck....computer stuff.

So my question is regarding your comment about Itunes in a Mac being bit perfect, so I take it I don't need to bother with burning software?, also does that mean the internal drive is ok for burning?

Secondly, regarding storage I've 2 options, a WD NAS 2TB(My Book Live) or a standard 1TB dual-drive HD(WD My Book Premium Ed II). On the one hand if I use the HD drive I've less pass thru with the data(less cables etc?), but the NAS give me more features, also I'm guessing there's a prefered file format to store the data with (Fat32,HFS+)? I've been reading alot about this subject on you wonderful site and I'm just alittle unsure at this stage and your valued opion woud be greatly appreciated. So I'm looking to start burning my cd's, downloading Hi res music etc, just need to know how to burn it and where and how to store it. For me it's all about the uncomprssed music the 24 BIT'S!! In the 90's I recorded to 16bit 48k now I record at 24bit 48k and to me the 24bits has changed the way I work.

Any way I say bring it on!!!

 

Regard,

Scott

 

[SeeHear]

Did you ever get and evaluate that system? If so, what was it and, what did you think of it?