Diamond Cut 8.15 Mac-Win Free Download
Diamond Cut 8 audio editing software is a good choice to help you digitize and restore any songs or sounds on old reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes, vinyl records or even old radio shows. This software removes aging-induced noises such as clicks and scratches to make your recordings sound even better than before. DC8 does fall short of some audio restoration software, though, because it lacks the ability to extract audio from videos and has an older user interface that is difficult to learn.
This audio software restores music from old phonograph recordings and even cleans up audio from cylinder recordings, 78s, 45s and LPs. It has several filters to help you restore and clean up old audio. Diamond Cut software has a multi-filter tool that is useful for handpicking the things you want to remove from any recording, such as pops and clicks, and then create a custom filter to remove them all in one pass. This saves you time so you don't have to go through and remove these sounds one by one. You will also find other filters such as band, brick wall, notch, pop/click and noise reduction. Each filter is adjustable, making it less likely for you to over-enhance your audio.
DC8 not only has restoration tools, but it also has a number of effects to make old audio sound even better. There are simple effects such as fade in, fade out and cross fade. If you want to adjust the audio even more, you can reduce vocal levels, add an equalizer and even use a harmonizer. These are very effective tools, but Diamond Cut 8's tools are not as high quality as those in our top-rated products.
This audio software restores music from old phonograph recordings and even cleans up audio from cylinder recordings, 78s, 45s and LPs. It has several filters to help you restore and clean up old audio. Diamond Cut software has a multi-filter tool that is useful for handpicking the things you want to remove from any recording, such as pops and clicks, and then create a custom filter to remove them all in one pass. This saves you time so you don't have to go through and remove these sounds one by one. You will also find other filters such as band, brick wall, notch, pop/click and noise reduction. Each filter is adjustable, making it less likely for you to over-enhance your audio.
DC8 not only has restoration tools, but it also has a number of effects to make old audio sound even better. There are simple effects such as fade in, fade out and cross fade. If you want to adjust the audio even more, you can reduce vocal levels, add an equalizer and even use a harmonizer. These are very effective tools, but Diamond Cut 8's tools are not as high quality as those in our top-rated products.
This audio editing software gives you the ability to burn restored audio to CDs once you have created and edited the audio files. In addition, you can record new audio files with this application by using the Line-In and Streaming Audio features, and by ripping audio files from CDs and using your computer's soundcard.
DC8 does have a learning curve. It includes complex analyzing tools such as a spectrum analyzer, a VU meter, an X-Y Vector and time displays. If you are interested in restoring or cleaning up audio tracks such as recordings from the radio, forensic tapes, aged recordings and live recordings, these tools are great. They just require a little extra time to learn. The whole interface also looks outdated, and the software is best for those who have some experience and expertise in audio editing. |
Diamond Cut 8 provides most of the features we expect for technical and customer support with audio editing software, but the quality is not the best. The in-application help section is generally sufficient, and the company offers an email address and a phone number that you can use to get in touch with product support. Whenever we tried to contact support, we reached a representative on the first try. Diamond Cut 8 is ideal for anyone who is looking to restore, clean up or enhance audio recordings. Beyond that, this software doesn't offer the quality tools that other audio editing products do. Therefore, it falls a bit lower in our rankings. That said, it is a sophisticated product with ample features for touching up aging recordings that need some special care.