directions please (audio restoration)

  • Thread starter Thread starter Fusion2
  • Start date Start date
F

Fusion2

New member
i have quite a few demo pratice cass tapes with a (cinder block basement wall) reflect recorded in them to clean up, can the reflect be removed or lowered in anyway?

one more please, some of the audio sounds thin, i have a small mx 1604a behringer eurotrack about a month old, should i enhance the thin sound on the mixer when transfering or record the audio flat to disk then add or enhance the sound, forgive my newness...

i have a dbx 266xl comp, alesis midiverb 4, and bbe 462 sonic maximizer also.... if thats relevent, thanks

directions please or a few tweaks.... tia
 
I don't think you'll be able to remove reflections from the recording. But maybe you can start recording with a different mic that is put closer to the instrument so that you don't pick up the reflections. What do you play and what kind of mic are you using??

Beezoboy
 
guitar m58 angled to cone on half stack and a direct mixer line from boss gt3, the drums had 2 m58 or 57? (kick) and snare i believe, and 4 of the 2for $49 audio technica mics on toms, hh, cym, cheap but eh, the drums were miked through headphones then through the pa system, the drumer and i set up his set to a picture of a studio miked set, and tweaked the distance away from the set by both phone and pa...

the tapes are 3 years old, i used a audo centron eclipse amc-24 mixer recording...

Technics hx pro dual cass deck was used for recording.

and why does HR forum browser always keep unloging me? anyone? thanks
 
yes, they are enabled... i believe, i clean them every other day and there are quite a few of them...

directions please... thanks
 
When you clean out the cookies (generally a good thing to do) you're also tossing the cookie from this site which recognises when you come back to the site. No cookie, it doesn't know who you are.
 
since your a long time member, do you know of a way to keep desired cookies in a file other than the temp file? so i can clean and not remove them, thanks tons...
 
Man I think you might need to look at your signal chain. I could be the problem. So do you mean how can you remove the hiss or how can you remove the room sound. I am not really sure what you are asking here.

Here is what I CAN tell you though. From my experience Behringer and other mixers tend to be a bit noisy and thus can create hiss. Also mics that are 2 for $49 might not have that hot a signal or could be producing the noise too, thus making you drive the preamp harder adding more noise to the track. THEN, you are recording to a consumer level tape recorder. Tape recorders *ALWAYS* have audible hiss.

With that said, I realize you want to clean up the old recordings, but don't expect miracles. With CoolEditPro you can take out some of the hiss and noise, but not without creating a different kind of noise. So is digital noise better than hiss? It can be, but people are certainly used to hiss. People are not used to digital noise. Get it. Which is the lesser of the evil. And as far as EQ goes. You can only EQ so much until you lost the timbre of the instrment, thus losing the quality of the instruments characteristic sound.

As far as taking the room out of the mix. Unless I am misunderstanding, then I don't think you can get rid of the room noise very much.

Hope this helps,
Beezoboy

*some tapes probably don't have hiss, I just made a generalization.
 
yes, cooledit does a great job of removing hiss and other unwanted noise...i've pretty much have that down, it's the (Live) reflect i'm attempting to cut back or remove, the room recorded in mesures about 14x20 but was full of equip, 3 full stack, bass amps, 2 pa systems, 3 desk, 5 comps, a bunch of stuff so the reflect is not to bad, i just like the dry digital sound really...

a few of the tapes are thin sounding also, (kick the audio tech) this is easly fixed via mixer EQ, when listening to that is, should i add a small amount of EQ boost from the mixer while transfering/digitizing or add EQ after transfer is what i'm wondering...

digital distortion sounds worse than anolog distortion i think, from a guitar players point of view/listening anyway...

i'd just like to bring the audio up front more, it's not that boomy but i've gotten picky the last few years :) i never wanted to be an audio tech, just a guitarst, but it goes that way at times i guess....

thanks for your input...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top