Giving more thought to my comments regarding Groove Mechanic I decided that I should follow up on my original comments, and this is why:
It is absolutely true that as is, Groove Mechanic has a sort of bug in the way that it saves files, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO MANUALLY SAVE FILES. This is a serious and stupid problem that the authors should solve, and that no one should have to put up with.
Nevertheless, having compared it to a few other programs, there is no doubt about it... Groove Mechanic has the capabilities of dealing with the lesser levels of pops and clicks much better than those programs, and much faster. It is much less of a resource hog, this speaks very well of the designers and their approach to writing the software. I would take a wild guess and suppose that this might explain where they got lost in the writing of the save function which Groove Mechanic has, and truly from that one aspect Groove Mechanic should come with a strict warning to avoid manually saving files. I don't think that that is an acceptable solution, but I do think that they are on their way to offering a superior software that should not be overlooked. If other people out there on lower budgets have been seriously looking at software to cleanup the noise found on LPs and Taped LPs, I would suggest that they do not overlook a trial run with Groove Mechanic, but they should be prepared to deal with this bug. And the authors of Groove Mechanic should find a way to get rid of it.
If you are attempting to clean up LPs and associated noise in a very acceptable fashion, you will soon see that this is not an easy task and that you will need more than one set of tools (and a lot of time and patience on your hands) to do it. Groove Mechanic could very likely make up a very useful part of this setup and you may find the results much more pleasing than with other software which you have sampled. For nnow, just watch out for the saving bug!
Re: Pluses + Minuses
Giving more thought to my comments regarding Groove Mechanic I decided that I should follow up on my original comments, and this is why:
It is absolutely true that as is, Groove Mechanic has a sort of bug in the way that it saves files, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO MANUALLY SAVE FILES. This is a serious and stupid problem that the authors should solve, and that no one should have to put up with.
Nevertheless, having compared it to a few other programs, there is no doubt about it... Groove Mechanic has the capabilities of dealing with the lesser levels of pops and clicks much better than those programs, and much faster. It is much less of a resource hog, this speaks very well of the designers and their approach to writing the software. I would take a wild guess and suppose that this might explain where they got lost in the writing of the save function which Groove Mechanic has, and truly from that one aspect Groove Mechanic should come with a strict warning to avoid manually saving files. I don't think that that is an acceptable solution, but I do think that they are on their way to offering a superior software that should not be overlooked. If other people out there on lower budgets have been seriously looking at software to cleanup the noise found on LPs and Taped LPs, I would suggest that they do not overlook a trial run with Groove Mechanic, but they should be prepared to deal with this bug. And the authors of Groove Mechanic should find a way to get rid of it.
If you are attempting to clean up LPs and associated noise in a very acceptable fashion, you will soon see that this is not an easy task and that you will need more than one set of tools (and a lot of time and patience on your hands) to do it. Groove Mechanic could very likely make up a very useful part of this setup and you may find the results much more pleasing than with other software which you have sampled. For nnow, just watch out for the saving bug!