Hey,

I've been using linux for a few months now, and I've so far been able to replace every app I use in Windows with a linux alternative, with the exception of one: SoundForge
I use Sony SoundForge 7 to record a church band, then EQ and clean up the recordings. I've been using Audacity to record lately, but I'm still having to use SoundForge for the editing. Audacity is okay, but I need something a little more intuitive and powerful. The main features I need are a really good multi-band graphic EQ, a noise reduction plugin, normalizing and some basic editing. Audacity has all that, but the graphic EQ is a bitch to use, and for some reason, adds high frequency hum whenever I use it, and the noise reduction is a complete joke. It either doesn't work at all, or removes too much material and makes everything sound muffled and digitized. I've tried a bunch of other linux sound editors, and they've all been pretty damn good (actually, the editing functions were better than 'Forge,and they were alot more intuitive), except that not one that I've come across so far has any kind of EQ function (even parametric would be okay, but I haven't found any). So I was wondering if anybody knows of any sound editor that has what I'm looking for. I could live without a noise reduction feature, but EQ is a must, and normalizing would be very nice. I'm running Mandrake 10.1, and I'd prefer an RPM package to having to build it myself.

Have you tried these?

http://glame.sourceforge.net/en/index.var
http://rezound.sourceforge.net/
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnusound/
http://ecasound.seul.org/

Have you tried Ardour? www.ardour.org. Ardour compares to Pro-Tools let alone Sound Forge. Ardour will blow almost any other program out of the water!

I've tried glame (loved it, no EQ), rezound (good, no EQ), and Sweep (good, no EQ). Don't think I've tried the others, so maybe I'll give those a shot. I think I tried ardour, but had some problems because on startup it looked for multi-track hardware that I don't have. I'll give that another shot too and let you know how it goes.

Thanks.