Hi, I have many old audio cassettes of our band that I want to convert to MP3, but efforts so far have also produced the dreaded hiss. Is there any software that can clean the sound up as it's being converted without loss of the higher end of the sound?

Hi

The only one I know of is Adobe Audition. There are probably more but I tend to stick with what I know.

In Adobe you can 'take in' a sample of hiss from the start of the tape, before any sound starts. This hiss can then be saved into a .fft file.

This then allows you to apply this .fft to the whole track/tape and that particular sound characteristic will be removed throughout, whilst leaving everything else untouched.

The free "Audacity" also has noise removal. Seems OK to me

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<edit> found it here

Hi, thanks for that. Just had a look on eBay, there's quite a few, so I'll be bidding.

Best regards, Eddie.