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#REVERB LP SMASH YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL PORTABLE#

You're usually between a rock and a hard place with that as that resonant frequency band is also the only remaining audio band of the program!

If you can identify something like that, sometimes brutal eq cuts at those resonant frequencies can let the remaining program rise to the surface. (Before we even introduce tape degradation.) A recording can kind of sound like a single resonant frequency modulated with the remains of the music.

#REVERB LP SMASH YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL PORTABLE#

Portable little dictation device recorders capturing some event from the audience can get overloaded easily. That's how you know you're on the right track. If some element is buried, there should be headroom to raise that element without needing to turn down or limit the remaining program. Rule of thumb to check yourself with: An already compressed recording should already be loud and not need any compression or limiting to 'fit' some move you're trying to make into the signal headroom. Find a way to do that without damaging/distorting other elements though! It can be tempting to go 'Hulk smash!' with a limiter to raise some buried elements up. You really want to be sure you've isolated some resonance or artifact gone wild and ONLY hit that element with compression if it's the thing to do. Careful with any compression or limiting. It's probably already horribly compressed in about 7 different ways from the formats and equipment used.

(Letting some saturation or harshness get worse, for example.) I'd let some things slide for speech in the interest of making it easily heard and understandable. I would tend to keep music strictly to doing no additional damage. If you like beating your head against a wall and punishing your ears, this can be a rewording hobby! I've done a lot of restoration work on old troubled recordings. Split, fix level changes on items, noise removal item by item, compress, eq and then send result to new track for reverbs reduction (or utilise a specific FX plugin to do that last job if anyone can advise on that?).Īll being done as a present for a blind registered chap who is happy so far with results so no expenditure other than time!! So, any ideas to rationalize such as change to workflow such as: Would be best done early in the process before sprocket noise reduction as one of the separate items on the track.Īlso having duplicated the media track, and FX (the mild compression and specific eq) it is all becoming a bit messy with duplicated FX too. (There is maybe an FX to do similar, expander?)ĭownside is one voice is still low level relatively so need to increase that. Copied the imported track and its FX then compressed from a fairly low threshold and phase inverted to mix with the original to cause reduction of the lower levels thus similar result to reduced reverb. Having got to that stage I decided to reduce the reverb caused by a too distant mic in a poor room. (This could be done with envelope automation but the track is very long so mild compression is fairly satisfactory for the most part). Secondly, now having imported the cleaned up media track into Reaper, I eq to remove some specific annoying interference and compress a little to even out some chat level variation. Is there a similar noise reduction FX in Reaper to do the same once I split into items? I would like to do similar on the media track split into items rather than whole track as the characteristic noise of the sprockets changes at times. I did significant reduction to the track as a whole using Audacity noise reduction. I'll describe work to date to hopefully help understanding.įirstly I tackled some nasty sprocket noise. Long post to describe what I have done so far (on a suck it and see basis), rather on a piecemeal and poor workflow, that I need to improve upon so please bear with me if you will. I have made some good improvements but would like ideas from the experienced community to get more improvements, particularly in work flow in Reaper. I have been working in slow time for a while cleaning up an old low quality recording.

Reverb lp smash your head against the wall