Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Clean Plus

by Pinnacle

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• ASIN: B00008OX04
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,508 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Be it LP, cassette, CD or MP3, Clean gets rid of hiss and crackle. Its high-quality effects and advanced music processing features give you perfect sounding music. You can let Clean do the work for you by automating this process. New professional tools and the intuitive handling make it easy to restore your music, to optimize the sound, and to burn the result onto CD.

The program delivers studio quality audio restoration from Steinberg, the leader in PC-based audio technology. Software includes a high-quality phonograph preamp to make recording your LPs easier than ever. Clean Plus allows you to have as much control over the process as you like--from full automation through complete control over every option.

Other tools include Wavelab Lite 2.5 for ultra-quick music editing, real-time crossfades and mastering effects, IntelliAssistant for fully-automatic handling, and TubeSimulation, which acts as a hi-fi amplifier simulator.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Life for your Records, June 23, 2003

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Jay Kay "SouthPole" (Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Clean Plus (CD-ROM)

I purchased Clean Plus a few weeks ago and wanted to try putting it through its paces before coming to any conclusions. Well, the conclusion is that this product is FABULOUS for the price that I paid. It was a decision whether to purchase Clean or Clean Plus. I have a very good stereo from Pioneer and hesitated to by the Plus version with its own preamplifier. I highly recommend the Plus with its preamp. I recorded a very scratchy Harry Belafonte album from 1963. In its initial recording, it was barely listenable with all the pops and clicks. After running through the paces of this program, and there are a few, the record now sounds like a professional recording studio has polished up the record. It is great!

One key factor is that the preset settings for the source work fine, but the program also gives you a high degree of custom settings to play with. It does this by creating a seperate file for the cleaned recording. In case you make a mistake, you still have the original file to go back to and try to customize again. Once you get used to the controls, it becomes second nature.

I now have the task of recording over 500 records...but I will enjoy the end product of my labors.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meets all my expectations!, January 18, 2004

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Mike "wolterma" (Brighton, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Clean Plus (CD-ROM)

I looked at the reviews for most of the major software for coping LPs and cleaning them and recording to CDs, including reading the reviews here. I was somewhat hesitant after reading the 1-star review on this program, but went ahead any ways. This program meets and in some cases exceeds my expectations! I got it yesterday and today recorded 4 of my albums onto CDs. It works very well and is fairly intuitive on how to use. I still have the occasional click or crack on the recorded CD, but overall I am very pleased with the results. So far I have only used the program to clean the recordings automatically, I'm sure if I play with the settings some I can probably eliminate the few remaining clicks and cracks. It's a little cumbersome to retrieve files that are removed from the play list and you want to use later, you need to save these as their own file right after they are recorded, otherwise, you have to hunt them down on your hard drive. The program works very quickly (I am using a Dell with a 2 GHz P4 processor, 512 MB SDRAM, and an SB Live 1024 Digital Sound Card), but make sure you have a lot of hard disk space, the 4 albums took 6 GB in .wav format. A few things that I learned along the way: 1) make sure your turntable is grounded, otherwise you might get a humming noise that the program will not clean up (or at least I have not figured out how to clean it up yet, but if the turntable is grounded, this is not an issue), and 2) in your sound card settings, make sure the Line In is not set to Mute. This is stated in the on-CD manual but not in the paper manual that comes with this program. Finally, I found that the price at Amazon was the cheapest around when you consider the free shipping. It arrived in 3 days. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS PROGRAM FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO COPY LPs ONTO CD!

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Insufferable UI, July 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Clean Plus (CD-ROM)

I purchased Pinnacle Clean Plus after I tried Magix Audio Cleaning Lab. The cool hardware that came with Clean plus looked nice - and I figured the software should be very good too -based on Pinnacle's reputation for excellence.
Well - a swing and a miss folks.
The User Interface is insufferable! It is nearly impossible to even get the system to identify CD tracks - and absolutely impossible to make them accurate.
While the quality of the remastering is good - the ability to actually make a good CD doesn't exist.
I got a free copy of Magix Audio Cleanng Lab 3.0 at COMPUSA (After rebate) and didn't like it at first - but honestly now it Magix got it right while Pinnacle (Steinberg actually wrote the software)completely missed the boat. The Magix software does the remastering nearly as well - I believe Pinnacle has the edge here. BUt it's of absolutely no use if you can't identify and work with tracks accurately.
Now - I use the Pinnacle hardware with the Magix software and can get the job done.
I recommend you get a pre-amp for 35 bucks at Radio Shack - and get Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 3.0 - for now.