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Old 01-12-2009, 07:02 PM
daeron80 daeron80 is offline
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Default Re: Need help with background noise!

Hmm. Well, if the problem was the pad being on, then the noise is at least as much electronic hiss as ambient noise. The mic's self noise + the mic pre at high gain. It's possible that recording with no pad in the future will help some. Loud singers will help more.

NR plugs like X-noise can skew the transients, or ramp them some (like a gate opening to late), so it gives the impression that the whole sound is later than it really is. The actual latency of the plug-in stays the same. Still, what counts is how it sounds, so you may have to compensate by ear. It's gonna sound wierd, no way around it.

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Originally Posted by jimthepisces View Post
could I turn up the vocals and use a noise gate and then record the results onto a new track THEN compress it? or would the compression still pick up the noise?
Same result. Level is level. The noise occurring during singing at any point will go up by the total amount of gain over the course of the whole process. If you use those takes, you'll have to live with either vocals+noise or vocals severely warped by NR.
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