It’s all down to signal to noise ratio; the closer the microphone is to your mouth (signal) the quieter the background (noise) will be. So I would suggest a headphone and microphone set, that will get the microphone close to your mouth without creating plosives and look professional at the same t ...

I'm getting a ton of hiss... ...I really love the sound of an upright, very particularly when the felt is lowered. It gives this soft, dark sound that gets me. And I want to capture a very dark tone in the recordings. The lowered felt can knock out a lot of the brightness in the piano. That sound ...

This audio could end up being challenging, at least to recover all of the spoken and sung material at least the more quietly spoken on the recording. The audio transfer may not have been optimal. Do you still have the original camera videocassette?

"Dont assume" is a wise course here. Owners' Manual have for decades warned to use only the Plug Pack originally supplied with the unit. The old saying, RTFM (read the @#$%* manual) really is a wise one. Of course, RTFM is first port of call (and something I like doing for fun much to my wife's ...

"Dont assume" is a wise course here. Owners' Manual have for decades warned to use only the Plug Pack originally supplied with the unit.
The old saying, RTFM (read the @#$%* manual) really is a wise one.

It's an unusual sound, like an unrelated rasping noise, especially as Sam mentions on the "possess" word. More like something anatomical in the throat, perhaps related to the vocal cords. The sound reminds me of an Afro-American comedy actor from maybe the 50's who had unusual vocal cords which ...

It's an unusual sound, like an unrelated rasping noise, especially as Sam mentions on the "possess" word. More like something anatomical in the throat, perhaps related to the vocal cords. The sound reminds me of an Afro-American comedy actor from maybe the 50's who had unusual vocal cords which gave ...

Hey all On consideration I think I was probably incorrect about the Beatles reference, as yeah actually their recordings are actually very clean, I think I maybe just used that as a reference point that in my mind was more saturated than I thought. Yes and this error can come about by not actually ...

I would tend to verge on under rather over doing unless you are absolutely certain about what you want to achieve and what your monitoring is telling you. I would 100% agree with this - real tape colouration is surprisingly subtle - far more subtle than those who have never used real tape would ...

It is good you are cautious cause it can sound horrendous, like you don't know what you are doing. Beatles vocals were pretty undistorted actually, as were most pro recordings I’ve often wondered how ‘Go Now’, a 60s track, managed to be so distorted on the lead vocal, it always makes me wince when I ...

The book "Recording The Beatles" gives a pretty good account of the equipment and techniques used, I believe. Always good to go to the best original sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_the_Beatles Overall apart from eg: electric guitar distortion effects, Beatles vocals were pretty ...

BigRedX wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 9:00 am

Tim Gillett wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 9:21 pm1 sample long clicks should be easily dealt with with a standard Declick tool.

This was 25 years ago...

Thanks for mentioning that but wouldnt it have been clearer to have mentioned that "minor detail" in your original post?

... The clicks were exactly 1 sample long so all I did was to zoom in to sample level and bridge the gap either side of the click. It did take a fair amount of time as I had about 2 1/2 hours of audio to clean up but IMO it was ultimately the least destructive to the rest of the audio. 1 sample ...

De-clicking is RX's weak point in my opinion. You may have more success with De-Crackle but I'd probably go for Adobe Audition first. If you send me a PM with a link to the file, I can try running it through Audition for you. James you've been saying this about RX for a long time now. Why not ...

ManFromGlass wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 12:31 pm This may not be the technical explanation but I always thought a click was mostly a high frequency short duration event while a pop has mids and possibly lows in it. An audio event caused by a scratch or large piece of dust might be more of a pop event.

That sounds about right to me.

I use RX plug in version and it is very successful and deal with plenty of them. Snip snip, select, right click, select RX "De-plosive" (edited for exact name) plug in, process, gone usually without much fuss or parameter tweaks. Set the HPF something like 80Hz-110Hz, usually works ok. According to ...

Hi Safe and Sound, Maybe there are great Depop, Deplop, DeThump tools out there. I know Cedar Cambridge has a Dethump tool. But AFAIK compared to short duration clicks as found on analog disc media such as vinyl and shellac, these tools generally have a much tougher assignment. For unlike these ...

It's easy to find a Declick tool. They're mature technology and are now very cheap. Used within their natural limits they work really well.

But Depop?

The master tapes have disappeared many moons ago so I had to digitize my bands LP from 1978 last night. I had 3 unopened ones left. Assuming the disc process was good, having 3 unopened vinyl pressings is a boon. Obviously not as good as a clean master tape but not bad. The other analog aspect is ...

I remember the first time when I noticed my old Wavelab 4 would not always allow me to edit at a certain precise point. From memory it seemed to move the waveforms slightly until it found matching amplitudes, which became the new splice point. Would this have been so or was something else going on?

You should also ensure that they are fully wound to one end as I often find that there are dropouts at the area of exposed tape when cassettes have been stored part played. Yes good advice, and it's best for that exposed tape section to be expertly cleaned before playing especially if the cassette ...

Thanks Stig, all the best with your music.

Both links take me to the same processed file. The main issue that I heard on that file was quite a bit of room reverb. Thanks for listening, and your advice earlier. If I understand you correctly you don’t hear any unwanted “colour”? As for the reverb, the room is what it is for the time being... I ...

Agree with Hugh's advice to make a good capture. It makes life so much easier down the road. Corrective EQ, especially when it's multi band is sometimes necessary but often to pull it off we need to know our stuff, and even then it may be no walk in the park.