This can easily ruin perfectly good recordings, but it’s more useful for music that hasn’t been professionally produced – in other words, users’ own music – adding punch and sparkle to help recordings compete with commercial releases.
Once cleaning is complete, a Mastering section improves the quality of recordings.
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A video tutorial appears on first launch to explain the basics, including valuable advice on how to process each track separately rather than treating them all with the same settings. This may leave users feeling lost, but at least the simpler techniques are the easiest to locate. When it comes to cleaning recordings, there are no less than five approaches to choose from: a fully automatic mode, a step-by-step wizard, a preset library, sliders for each process and in-depth editing. It’s still reliant on multiple pop-up windows, though, which can be untidy. The interface is more inviting than before, with unfussy graphics and an overview waveform to help navigate around large projects. Audio Cleaning Lab continues to cope admirably with its allotted tasks of recording audio files, sprucing them up and exporting them to audio CD, MP3 and a range of other formats. In fact, there’s very little that’s new about this latest version – in terms of features, we struggled to tell the difference between this and version 10. Software for turning vinyl collections into shiny MP3 files has been around for years, as the number 16 in this package’s title demonstrates.