Hi I am a new member on the forum.I have recently transferred my music from tapes to cds.Some of the tapes have a lot of distortion in them which was subsequently transferred onto the cds.Anybody who knows how I can remove the clicks and pops using Easy Media creator 8 please advise at ekissodde at yahoo dot com

Creator 2009 has some add ons that would help but since it's been awhile since I've used 8 I don't recall if it has any useful tools. You can give Goldwave a shot.

You can get minimum "cleaning" in Sound Editor. go to the menu at the top of the pge.

Steve help me out here.I need a little more detail in steps when I go to the sound editor what should I do?

If you've got distortion from tapes (which wouldn't have clicks and pops unless they were originally recorded from LPs) then I would suspect they were captured at too high a level, so the music was clipped, and there's really not a whole lot that can be done to "fix" it. The best solution would be to recapture at a lower level so it's not clipped (usually shown by level meters that turn red, or a "clip" indicator).

If you've really got clicks and pops such as from LPs, then bring your track into Sound Editor. I don't recall version 8 specifically, but at the top menu, it's one of the right-most buttons, possibly labelled "FX" or "Effects". Under that list, you'll find something for Noise and Pops. You can start playing your music and turn the level of the cleaning up and down and hear how it affects the music. Too high and it'll actually add noise, too low, it doesn't do much. So, fiddle till you think it's helping more then hurting. When you have things as you want, then you need to Export your clip(s), which makes a new copy of the track after applying the filters. Hopefully you captured as .WAV files, and that's what you want to save them as. (MP3 or WMA files use lossy compression schemes that lose some music in the encoding.)

Hope that helps!

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