Using Neo:6 or PL II?
I don't alter 2 channel material with one exception.
Somewhat similar for PLIIx in that ticks, crackles and hiss seem to become the surround sound - or are at least more noticeable.The reverb setup does NOT work well with vinyl; any ticks or crackles on the surfaces go boinging around the room!
Yes, anti-phase is one of the cues that these systems use, and ticks are vertical modulation on vinyl. That's also the cues that vinyl noise reducers use.Is that perchance a phase thing - in that it's similar to the cues that PLIIx looks for with normal music in order to create the surround channes
Totally by coincidence, today I needed to clean up two album files that were rips of vinyl that has never been released in digital format. They were probably the most snap, crackle, and pop files I have ever heard. It only took a minute to find out about, download, and install a free (21 day trial) copy of ClickRepair. In order to clean up the files I had to first convert them to a format that CR can handle. Took a couple of minutes to do the FLAC and MP3 conversions (the albums were not in the same format to start) to WAV using other software that I already have, and then another minute to run them through CR (a drag and drop and one click process - the processed files get placed in the same folders as the originals - with the same files names except with a "-cr" added at the end). I used whatever the default CR settings were and the results were outstanding. After the conversion it's easy to swap between the original and processed file, and I gotta say that 99% of the problems were removed without noticeably affecting the music. The tracks went from unlistenable to collection-worthy. After that it was a matter of renaming the files by removing the "-cr" and then converting them to 320MP3. Through this process some of the individual track metadata was lost (but not the song names) and after importing the two albums into my collection using iTunes it took a few minutes to restore the missing metadata. (It was mostly just a matter of copying the artist's names and album title and then pasting them.) While this sounds like a lot of work it really only took 20 minutes or so for both albums, start to finish.Yes, anti-phase is one of the cues that these systems use, and ticks are vertical modulation on vinyl. That's also the cues that vinyl noise reducers use.
Something else I forgot to mention...Using Neo:6 or PL II?