Attn: Drumkit from Hell experts: noise noise noise

[Smelt]

I just started to notice the loud hiss in some of the DFH samples, particularly all the toms.
The hiss is just as loud as the sound. I noticed it also on some of the snares.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? Ways around it?

The hiss is on the actual individual .wav files themselves. I'd post one, but apparantly you can't do that directly on this forum.

I've noticed that too, but I think it's even more apparent on the ride samples.
I listened just now, and it is only on the close miced sounds that the noise is audible.

[Smelt]

I'm looking for tight, in your face drum tracks. I'm afraid that I can't go further until I fix the hiss issue. If I ignore, then compress, that will get compressed as well.

I've thought of hiss reduction techniques, and I'm not opposed to going to every velocity of every sample and removing the hiss. I've got waves gold (no hiss reduction that I know of). I've also got CoolEditPro, but the hiss reduction it has really changes the tone. hmmm.

I have a feeling someone will mention Waves Restoration, but for $1200, I don't think so...

[kmshroom]

Originally posted by Smelt:
I have a feeling someone will mention Waves Restoration, but for $1200, I don't think so...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Restoration Bundle 4.X costs $469 from altomusic.com.

check it out!

[kmshroom]

tell him Kyung Min from the DUC sent ya. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

i do not work for them. i recently purchased the platinum upgrade to the gold bundle at very cheap from a recommendation from someone on this forum.

[kmshroom]

whoa, just kidding. that's the price i paid for the platinum upgrade from gold. hehe.

the restoration i think they sell for $679.

[Smelt]

I think the point I'm trying to make is, I shouldn't have to fix this.

Everybody talks about how great DFH is. It's got a killer review from Sound on Sound, and such. But I wonder why this hiss issue is not mentioned anywhere. I mean, it's real noticeable.

I can't see spending another half grand to fix this. I appreciate the heads up that it's not $1200 though, kmshroom.

Does anyone else see this as a big obstacle. If so, what have you done to compensate?

[kmshroom]

yeah, i'm surprised to hear from you that there is this problem! because i have not used it, but yeah, i've heard everyone raving about it!

i'd be curious to know what's up, please keep us posted!

[marcusb]

Interesting dilemma, wanna give us some more details on how you are using the samples? I haven't used DFH before but would find it hard to believe that a company would release a product with noisy samples.

Are you doing any pre-post processing? Are you running them from a soft-sampler or as raw audio? Have you had a more forensic look at the samples as audio? Are you mistaking room ambience for hiss??

Cheers,
Marcus

[nikki-k]

Hi!

http://drumkit.toontrack.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
Drop a note in the "DFH Support Q's" section.

They have seemed very helpful to their customers thus far.