audacity

Not as well as many other programs. But it's free so why not try it?

I've got the program, but haven't needed to use it since I have GoldWave, which is much more user friendly.  It appears to have quite a bit and I guess if you work with it for a while it will be OK.  One thing I don't like, I loadeda wav file and clicked on the noise removal and the first thing it wanted me to do was click on noise so it could identify noise and then I guess it will remove noise based on the sample.  With GoldWave, it has the parameters programmed in and all I have to do is click on the noise removal function and it will do it.  But, GoldWave isn't free and Auacity is.

I read your post this morning and downloaded the program.  I have wanted something like this to burn some old jazz, blues, and Living Stereo records so I don't wear them out.  I also wanted to make voice recordings...anyhow, I recorded John Coltrane's Blue Train.  It did a fabulous job and I was easily able to remove a few annoying pops and ticks.  I had previously tried my creative audio program but was not happy with the filtering.  If you have material that has a few fixes, you might really like it.  If your setting out to completely repair old 78's, you could be looking at a large task.  Also, it's open source so that there will be improvements and new filters and effects.  I think it's right up there with Gimp and FXphoto, two excellent imaging programs,  for freeware.  Give it a try...

Very interetsting! Thanks for sharing that information.....

A lot of people "in the know" recommend Audacity, including some very top names in the film, network TV, and music recording industries.  One person I'm familiar with, whose clients include household names in film and TV, uses it on his laptop to gather sound FX, background ambience, crowd sounds, and other location sound.  This fellow's kit includes a full studio with other recorders, microphones, etc and software whose costs rival that of a luxury car so the microphone and preamp he's using to feed the laptop are liable to have cost several thousand dollars, yet he says Audacity is perfectly adequate for the recording job  for location work on the software side of things.