DC SEVEN comes from a proud family of products designed for audio restoration, noise reduction and audio enhancement.
For 12 years now, there has been one product that lead the way for record and tape restoration and enhancement. The Diamond Cut Audio Restoration tools, now in their seventh edition, offer you the best chance to take your fading vinyl and tape collection and transfer them back to their original brilliance. This set of noise reduction and audio enhancement tools will help you quickly and easily remove noise like clicks, pops, hiss, surface noise, hum, buzz and other audio disturbances associated with older formats. After you've removed the noise, you have an equally powerful tool kit offering the sweeteners...enhancement tools that can breathe life back into your audio memories and treat your ears to your favorites exactly as you remember them...and sometimes better. With DC SEVEN, you simply record your audio to the hard disk of your computer using your sound card (nothing new here...it's not different than recording to a cassette player in the old days) and then audition and clean up the audio using our sophisticated arsenal of professional quality tools to remove the noise and enhance the remainder.
Keep in mind that most of our customers are old enough to have a record collection, so that means they're also old enough that many of them weren't born with a computer in their right hand. That's why Tracer offers the world's best technical support. We answer our phones and our emails and simply help you if you run into some confusion along the way. Like any other tool you've used in the past, with a little practice, you'll quickly be up to speed and have an expert understanding of the product you're using. We've also done our part to make this process as painless as possible. Most of our filters; both enhancement and noise reduction have a "Preview" button. You simply open the filter, click on Preview, and you're now hearing the audio playing in realtime with the filters in place...no different than adjusting the equalizer on your stereo system. You make realtime adjustments using your ears as your guide and "dial in" the audio until it sounds perfect. Then you simply hit the "Run Filter" button and DC SEVEN makes you a new copy of the audio that your ears have just perfected. With this method, even the newest beginner can start achieving quality results in minutes!
Besides being incredibly easy to use with our standard filtering and enhancement, DC SEVEN also has some even easier features like our EZ Clean Filter and our EZ Enhancer. These complex filters offer multiple filters that combine noise reduction and enhancement and can remove several types of noise simultaneously...almost like Audio Training Wheels!
We've set up an environment that fits any users' needs: If you are the type of person who sweats the details and wants perfection, you'll have several approaches to each problem and also detailed extra information like Tracer's Educational DVDs that help you learn more about the product and become more productive with it. If you just want to quickly transform your records and tapes to CD, MP3 or other popular formats, our EZ filters combine speed with our time tested, world famous filters. We also offer great telephone and email technical support so you never feel like you're being left out in the cold.
Most importanly? Because DC SEVEN has always been and always will be designed for Audio Restoration and Enhancement, you won't have to wade through 100 features you don't need. Every new feature and improvement to the product usually comes at the request of our users who are normally doing exactly what you're doing...it makes us seem really smart and intuitive, but in reality, our customers who use the product every day are the smart ones...we just listen."
Here Are Some Important Features of DC SEVEN:
Advanced Audio Restoration Remove clicks, pops, hiss, surface noise, Hum, Buzz, etc. from your favorite audio recordings quickly and easily.
Your Favorite Formats Supported After you remove the noise and breathe new life into your recordings, you can save to MP3, WMA, CD or DVD
Tune Library Organizes Your Collection Never lose an audio file again. Our new Tune Library tracks every audio file on your hard disk and makes it readily available for cleanup, enhancement, or conversion to CD, MP3 or WMA
The World's Best Tools! There's a good reason that law enforcement agencies (that can afford any tools available) use our products for their Audio Forensics. Simple...they're the best!
Legendary Technical Support Our products are easy to use, but we not only offer free technical phone and email support, but also provide a thorough manual, Getting Started Guide, and even have DVDs that walk you through the process of audio restoration and enhancement. You can learn this in minutes...and we'll help!
Artifact Suppression In Continuous Noise Filter This new technology reduces the aliasing and artifacting that sometimes affects the quality of the sound when you're pushing the Continuous Noise Filter to its limits. As you increase the power and amount of filtering on a tough file, in the past, you could generate new noise called artifacting. This machine-like ghosting was quite annoying and we'll be very happy to see it showing up much less in our restorations. Artifact suppression mode helps you push the Continuous Noise Filter harder without yielding these disturbing results!
Virtual Phono Preamp This novel new approach to RIAA equalization offers more accuracy and better sound to any record type. The Virtual Phono Preamp works great in conjunction with our flat phono preamps and offers you the best possible approach and most accurate EQ ever developed for vinyl restoration. This powerful new approach also includes a 3-band EQ, gain adjustment, balance controls and a 30 Hz Rumble filter to make recording your files a breeze...no matter what setup you present to DC SEVEN.
Narrow Crackle Filter We love new tools...especially tools that cover a category that wasn't covered before. Many times during restoration, you come across tiny clicks that lie just beneath the surface of your good audio that are hard to eliminate with standard click removal techniques. We saw these lemons and made lemonade with our new Narrow Crackle Filter. After the Standard or Easy Impulse filters have done their jobs, a new step will be the Narrow Crackle Filter that cleans up the minute clicks you used to have to live with.
Stretch And Squish Redesign Our time compression and expansion filter has been upgraded in the same way you blink your eyes and your Ford Taurus becomes a Mustang Fastback! Now you can make major changes to both speed and pitch of your audio files with no discernable difference in quality. Where the old time compression expansion tool was effective with only about a 10% increase or decrease in speed, you'll be amazed with what you can achieve using the new guy. Even if you've never used this tool before, you must try it...if nothing else but for the "giggle factor".
Spectrogram View Now Included Used to be, you had to be a Forensics specialist and pay 00 to get the Spectrogram view in your audio restoration. No more. The spectrogram view is sort of like an X-ray for sound. Sometimes stray clicks and pops can hide within the standard Time Domain View that you're used to seeing with virtually every audio editor. The Spectrogram let's you peer into the Frequency domain in a way you've never seen before. Those hidden clicks stick out like a sore thumb in the Spectrogram. "Come out, come out, where ever you are!"
EZ Enhancer Added One stop quick and easy enhancement.
New Pentode 6267-EF86 Tube Added to Virtual Valve Amplifier
New MOSFET 2SK-175 transistor Added to Virtual Valve Amplifier
Increased Multi-filter to 20 Filters More power for complex restoration and enhancement jobs. Layer filters to get more noise reduction and enhancement power. You can also save these filters and reuse them on similar files!
Increased Presets Now over 1270 Included! These factory settings help you quickly get results while still learning the product and also give experienced users a starting point with well defined descriptions and complex filters already designed for you right out of the gate!
Burn a CD From Any Playlist Import WLS, XML or M3U playlist formats
CD Ripper Can Rip All Files to One Track Makes it easier for processing full CDs worth of like material
Auto CD Database Automatically displays names of songs on premade CDS.
ID3V2 Tag Support for MP3 and WMA Stores Name of song, Arts, Album name and genre in file and displays it in database view.
EZ Clean One click noise reduction. Now, even the most inexperienced user can clean their treasured vinyl and tape recordings with one click of the mouse. DC SEVEN includes a powerful new automated system that seeks and destroys clicks, pops, hiss, hum and other disturbances common to older recordings.
CD Ripping Now you can quickly and easily convert your audio CDs to Wave files or MP3 files using DC SEVEN's CD Ripper. Just go to File/Open, choose your CD Rom drive and select any number of the files there to be transferred immediately to wave audio so you can work on them with DC SEVEN.
Direct X Support Now you can use your favorite plug-ins within the DC SEVEN operating system. You can even use them in the DC SEVEN Multi-Filter.
Auto Leveling Got a bunch of files of varying volumes that you'd like to make into a CD? No problem, just go into our Batch File editor and tell it to Auto Level these files. The Auto Leveler will raise the level or normalize all of the files so that your CD level will not fluctuate during playback.
Adaptive Filtering Added To Continuous Noise Filter This intelligent filter adapts itself to the changing nature of the noise in your file. As it gets smarter, your noise disappears.
No Time Limits The wave file format has a 2 gigabyte limit. For those of you recording long radio shows or other events, this can be a real problem. Not with DC SEVEN. Though we can't fix the problem for Microsoft, we can find a nifty way of working around it. As we approach the limit, we simply stop the recording and open a second file. You get your whole recording...just split into several files.
AVI Audio Support Many of our customers wanted the ability to open an AVI file and extract the audio for editing. Many of our customers will now be happy! You can play an AVI within DC SIX, you can select an area and extract the audio.
Fat Bass Using the new FAT BASS section of our Virtual Valve Tube Simulator, you can build up weak or inadequate bass lines in your favorite tunes and get those floors rattling again.
The Specifications
Here are additional specs for those of you who love details. Most of these specs come directly from the manufacturers.
General
Requirements:Windows XP or Vista
If you have older versions of Windows, it is suggested that you use DC SIX or Millennium
How About A Taste Test?
Now's your chance to test drive this fine Tracer product. Just download the demo and you'll have several days to get comfortable with it before we ask for
money. The clock on your demo starts ticking the minute you install, so make sure you're ready to play with it when you install it...otherwise, you may waste your
available evaluation time. Also keep in mind that we are always happy to provide technical support on these products. Just call us at 717 764 9240 Monday
Through Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST and we'll help you get off on the right foot. This technical support will remain even after you spend money with us.
No one is born knowing how to remove noise and our expert staff is happy to answer any questions you may have. No question is stupid.
DC SEVEN is an incredibly powerful product. This demo should help you get your feet wet. We also suggest that you download the Getting Started Guide that is also listed here. This guide will help you easily set up your sound card and stereo for recording and also lead you through a few sample restorations that are included in the demo. All of the filters in DC SEVEN work in a similar way, so these brief tutorials, while easily completed in minutes, will help you become very familiar with this powerful product. You probably won't need any additional help, but don't be afraid to call our 717 764 9240 help line if something doesn't seem right to you.
The entire product manual is also included in this demo. After you install, just go to c:/Program Files/Diamond Cut Productions/DC 7 Demo and you'll find a file called Live - DC7 Users Manual.pdf. This can be viewed with a PDF reader or printed for your convenience.
