Attn: Drumkit from Hell experts: noise noise noise

[Smelt]

Well, I placed a post on the toontrack forum, and the response was:

"There are pretty much hiss sometimes, especially on soft hits, this is totally normal considering the naturality of the kit (that we make everything ring for very long, and that all mics are on). You wont be bothered by this at all while using it in your songs."

I guess he could be right. But I thought since they were in a professional studio with the best mics, that would not be an issue.Maybe I'm just paranoid.


But to explain my usage to marcusb more effectively:

The DFH comes with two folders of samples: one is closed mic, second is ambient mic. This is so you can have two versions of the drum track, and blend in the ambience as you see fit....I'm not a fan of the ambience at all, as I want the "in ya face" drums, as my project is metal.....so I'm using only the close mics. My goal to to make the most realistic drums thru the Digi001 / DFH / dr008 sampler. My goal is to separate the drums into about 4 or 5 midi tracks.....kick, snare, toms, hi-hat/ride, cymbals. I program the drum hits (via sampler dr008) with the ProTools piano editor. Now, once the midi is all laid down, my intention is to bounce each midi track to disk (solo'd)...then bring that .wav file back as audio to replace the midi track.....running the audio out thru outboard compressors, EQ, and tube preamps to give it punch and warmth and realism. Final special effects for parts will be with ProTools plugs.

But I haven't got that far yet. I'm just doing the midi sequencing, and I hear the hiss sometimes, so I went into the folder containing the individual .wav files (there's a wav file for every velocity hit of each drum). I've opened up a few of those .wav files with CoolEditPro, done a noise profile, and it finds it as well....I would try to remove it there, but when I did, it took some of the drum sound with it. I'm looking at close mic .wav files only.

So that's about it. I may try to, once a song is laid down in midi, when I go to the outboard stage, run it thru one of my buddy's vintage noise-reduction units.