rayc wrote: ↑Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:18 pm
Removing "noise" is easy but complicated. The VSTs and such that do it are easily found Reaper has ReaFir which does it BUT if the "noise" is removed from the music then that range of frequencies is removed also which can sound worse. It's a balancing act as to how much and from where. My favourite live recording is of the Velvet underground, (Velvet underground with Lou Reed 1969), and the LP is from a 2nd or third gen recording - the noise is part of the charm of it. I also have a "cleaned" version of the LP and it sounds cleaner but not better.
The best strategy, I've found, is archive a pile of stuff 1st with the gear set up and the mojo running. Tweak later.
yeah ..... you can actually do
some noise reduction just using a 31 band if you're good with it but I'll often find that, for it to sound good, I have to accept some hiss .... just gets dull otherwise and sometimes it's even like a bias signal .... getting rid of the hiss gets rid of the sparkle.
....... I imagine the stuff in Reaper's gonna be far more sophisticated than me with a 31 band but still ..... if you remove frequencies it always affects other things and not necessarily just in the frequency you're messin' with and so it's always a 'this-way/that-way' thing.
I'm pretty used to that but I have to think this is gonna be a step up for me so I'm looking forward to it.
The way I'm archiving these is to run them thru a mixer and a 31 band and pan and EQ things for the very best I can make it sound.
The odds of doing something with them later are remote as I have prolly 1000 hours or more so I'm doing it as I go ..... sometimes I'll EQ one of the channels different than the other and I don't necessarily pan them all the way L/R .... whatever sounds the best.
I've only done 2 of my bands and maybe 5 or 6 hours right now so if I were to have a relevetory experience with the noise software I could do them again.
But otherwise they're done and anything I use will just be from the point that I can because I'm pretty comfortable with 31 bands ..... at one time just having that was amazing.
I'm glad I came up the way I did ..... 4 track reel to reel requires you really dialing in your ears if you're gonna do more than 4 tracks.
If you're gonna ping things you quickly learn that this instrument or that cymbal cuts thru too much or not enough once you start adding other tracks because then you're stuck with it after you've recorded over the other tracks.
You remember that next time because it ruined your final mix.
So maybe your first ping sounds like the snare is too loud and there's not enough bass, but you've learned that when you add two more instruments, ping them, and add two vocals ..... with all those sub-mixes ( pings ), the snare and bass are just right ..... good thing because there's no modifying them at all other than EQ once you're at that point.
And now all that's left is EQ and panning ....
Maybe you may pull out 1-2k if a snare's too loud but that affects everything else ... might have to accept the snare popping more than you'd like..... really have to juggle things and you can only do so much ...... so getting the levels really balanced in the first place was way important, but once you're mixing, EQ becomes your primary tool .... sometimes the only one you have ... so EQ has always been a major recording/mixing tool for me.
Nonetheless I'm way looking forward to my new format. I bet I'm gonna learn some cool stuff about this shit.
It could be a fun exercise to remove hiss if for no other reason than to say "you did it!" and give us all a before and after of your efforts.