Diamond Cut Productions DC6

Diamond Cut's DC6 is the continuation of the DCart line of audio editing and restoration software. It is a complete audio editing, restoration and enhancement system with sophisticated features for any kind of audio work. If you are transfering your Vinyl record collection to CD or trying to restore some treasured family history, this is the software to use. While we have just introducted Version 7, we are still selling version 6 for users who do no have Windows XP or Vista.

Features in DC SIX

• 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 SIX 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 SIX's new 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 SIX.
• Speed To Burn- We've Turbo-charged the algorithms in the Impulse Filter, the Continuous Noise Filter, the Brick Wall Filter and the Median filter. You should notice an improvement in the speed of the algorithms anywhere from 20-80%.
• Direct X Support - Now you can use your favorite plug-ins within the DC SIX operating system. You can even use them in the DC SIX 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.
• CD Database Integration- If you're working with CDs, DC SIX will instantly dial up the Internet CD Database and assign the names to all of your tracks before you rip them. This will save you the time of doing a Save As when you name the files.
• 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 SIX. 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.
• Multi-Codec Sensor Support- Now you can import and export to any Codec that's installed on your machine. These popular compression standards include: A-Law, Mu-Law, ADPCM and more.
• 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.
• 20-Band Graphic EQ Added- Another powerful and easy to use enhancement and noise reduction tool.
• Echo Effect Added- The Echo Effect contains two independent delay lines, which can be used in a number of different modes providing it with a great deal of flexibility compared to the old analog systems. Because it performs its function utilizing digital techniques, it does not suffer from the noise and distortion buildup associated with the older analog systems.
• Price: $199
  Upgrade price is reduced; call us at 973-316-9111 for details.
  

DC6 Screen shot (click for full size image)

Audio Restoration Filters

All filters in DCart feature live preview mode with“On-the-fly” parametric changes so you can instantly hear how the audio changes when you change settings. They also have a Bypass function and many filters had a keep residue mode to hear what is being removed.

DC6 also include LIVE Feed through Mode -Now you don’t need to necessarily have your audio recorded to the hard drive to take advantage of the numerous features of FIVE. Live mode allows you to run dirty audio in the inputs of your sound card, set up your numerous filters on the screen and have cleaned audio flow out the output of your sound card in real time. You can log the output of your processed audio to disk for quick one pass cleanup.

All filters can be used from within the Multi-filter. The Multi-Filter allows you to chain filters together for one pass processing.

• DirectX plugin filters - User your favorite filter from within DCart.
• Brick Wall Forensics Filter (Band Pass, Band Stop, High Pass, Low Pass
• Change Speed Filter
• Channel Blender Effect
• Continuous Noise Filter - Hiss, Filter with new Auto detection mode also includes Spectral Subtraction mode
• Dynamic Noise Filter - Hiss filtering th old fashioned way
• DeClipper - Removes "flat topped" or overload distortion and reform the waveforms.
• Expert-Impulse Noise Filter (remove clicks and pops with full control for difficult recordings)
• Easy DeClick and DeCrackle (Easy to use de-clicking with just two controls)
• File Channel Conversion and Time Alginment (Mono to Stereo, phase inversion plus more)
• Filter Sweeper - Varying degrees of notch, high and low pass filters over time. (Perfect for lead in grooves)
• Harmonic Reject Filter - Hum and buzz removal
• High Pass, Low Pass, BandPass and Averaging filters with multiple filter slopes (Butterworth and Chebyshev)
• Notch and Slot Filter
• Manual Interpolate Feature. For fixing clicks manually. We also have a pencil edit mode.
• Median Filter (with weighting function)
• Pitch Change for chaning off speed recordings.
• Time Compression and Expansion (Stretch and Squish) - Speed up or slow down the audio and keep the pitch constant.
• Reverse Files

Audio Enhancement Processes

• Audio Enhancer (Part of Dynamic Noise Filter)
• Audio Exciter (Part of Virtual Valve Amplifier)
• Dynamics Processor (ALC, Compressor, Expander, Noise Gate, De-Esser)
• 10 and 20 Band Graphic Equalizer
• 10 Band Paragraphic Equalizer
• Punch & Crunch Multi-band Dynamics Processor. This is a multiband compressor, expander or ALC processor.
• Reverb
• Echo
• Virtual Valve Amplifier tube simulator and spectral enhancer.

Comprehensive Editing tools:

• Cut, Copy, Paste, Insert
• Selective editing and filtering
• Gain Change
• Mute
  
• Make Destination the Source feature
• Clone Source
• Mix
• Insert Silence
• Fade In, Fade Out
• Gain Normalize either a single file or accross multiple files.
• Cross-Fade two files
• Pencil Wave Form Drawing, with sample accurate editing
• Instant Channel Selection - Quickly and easily audition Left, Right or Stereo…even during playback. Apply any filter to either channel with one click of the mouse.
• Zoom in/Out

Fast Editing using our "Fast Edit" Cue-Sheet Based Editing mode:

• Instant editing with each level saved in the Fast Edit History Window
• Instant comparisons and undo over numerous levels
• Cut/Copy/Paste instantly…regardless of file length.
  

Flexible marker system:

• Up to 100 named markers per file.
• Add, Delete, Lock, Clear
• Marker Navigation - Goto next and previous, highlight, nudge
• Drop while playing

Wide range of file format support

• AIFF to wave file Converter. You can now easily work on your favorite Mac files and then export them back to their original format.
• Wave file to MP3 Conversion via popular encoders - Now, via the use of popular outboard encoders (Blade, Lame, Ogg Vorbis, Xing), you can quickly and easily convert any wave file to MP3 format from within the program.

Automation tools

• Batch File Editor
• Playlist editor
• Timer Recording - Just like your VCR…you can set your software to begin recording at a certain time and end recording later. This can be set to be a one time recording or a daily recording.
  

Video Support:

• Extract audio tracks for Videos for cleanup and enhancement
• Playback videos from within DCart

CD Prep

• Find and Mark Silent Passages
• Chop File Into Pieces
• Quantize
• Gain Equalize over multiple files. (Auto Leveling)
• Cue Sheet Support for CD Burning - You can now generate a .cue sheet that is compatible with many of today's most popular CD burning programs.
• Export Playlists - Export your playlist in a standard text file so that it can be used by numerous label making and CD writing programs.

Record and Playback System

• Signal Triggered VOX Recording - You can now trigger the software to begin recording automatically when a user determined level of signal is sustained for a user determined length of time.
• Time Display / Samples Display / Time Interval Measurement
  VU Meter / Relative Amplitude Measurement with peak hold (Log or Linear scales)

Audio Measurement

• Make Waves (Waveform Generator)
  Random Noise (White, Pink, Brown and Sesmic) Generators
• High Res Spectrum Analyzer Added - Now capable of resolving frequency increments as small as 0.02 Hz.
• Distortion Analyzer - New to the Spectrum Analyzer…measures the THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) of any device
• X-Y Vector Display with Average angle readout for head alignments and measurements

Miscellaneous

• 8 to 32 bit resolution (depth) support, 100Hz to 192kHz sample rate support
• Sample Rate Conversion - Quickly convert your files from one common sample rate and bit depth to another.
• Dithering Options for Resolution Conversion - Both Save as and the Sample Rate Conversion tool allow you to select from 3 different dithering shapes.
• Time Bracketed Play Range - Quick audition of a second or two around a selected area when trying to zero in on a problem area or click.
• Print Waveforms or any Screen Shot - A simple Print Screen function has been added with notation capabilities.
• Hundreds of New Factory Presets (Over 800 Total) - Always a great starting point. We’ve added a ton of new tools to this version; we’ve also followed it up with an incredible amount of “factory” presets to help get you in the ballpark.
• Context Sensitive Help
• Preset Import and export for exchanging Preset Files with other DC-Art users
• Selectable Fonts and Colors - Manage your working environment to please your eyes.
  Tile Window
• Time Shift Feature for correcting tape azimuth problems
• Lots of Keyboard Accelerators (Hotkeys)
• Standard multidocument window features (Cascade, tile, Iconic, Close all)
• Drag and Drop File Support - Drag and drop any audio file supported by the program and it opens and converts it automatically.

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