Noise reduction, clicks, pops, hiss, vinyl cleanup, spectral analysis, and restoration workflows in Sound Forge Pro.
Audio Restoration
WaveColor is a display mode in Sound Forge Pro that adds color coding to the waveform based on the audio's tonal characteristics. Instead of a monochrome waveform showing only amplitude, WaveColor maps pitch and sound characteristics to different colors and saturation levels across the waveform display. The result
Audio Restoration
I transferred a box of 7-inch singles last autumn — about 40 records, varying condition, some with visible surface scratches. Sound Forge Pro's DeClicker handled the obvious vinyl click problems on most of them. Four required the manual pencil and Interpolate approach for clicks that sat too close
Audio Restoration
A noise gate in Sound Forge Pro silences audio that falls below a threshold you set. When the signal is loud enough — a voice, an instrument, a transient — the gate opens and lets it through. When the signal drops below the threshold — silence between sentences, the noise floor between notes
Audio Restoration
The Spectral Analysis tool in Sound Forge Pro is under View → Spectrum Analysis. It opens a frequency-domain view of whatever audio you have selected — amplitude on the vertical axis, frequency on the horizontal. FFT size, display mode, real-time monitoring, snapshot storage — all of it lives in that window.
Audio Restoration
Sound Forge Pro ships with two noise reduction systems. Most people don't know that. They open the software, look in the wrong menu, don't find what they're looking for, and end up on a forum asking where noise reduction even is — I've