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abalagula
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I recently recorded a live band and had some problems with my mic and got distortion in the mix. Which frequency should I eliminate in the eq to get rid of as much of the distortion as possible?
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Garik
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do a parametric sweep to fund it 
u know how to do that?
u know how to do that?
pingu
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Damn hard to get rid of distortion.
You will need a really good noise reduction tool.
You will need a really good noise reduction tool.
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Synkrotron
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abalagula said:
Distortion?
Do you mean feedback?
If it's distorting then it could be a number of things.
Did you record the whole band with just one mic? If you used many mic's, which mic was causing the "distortion" problems?
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abalagula
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It was just one mic and It wasn't clipping so I think there might be a problem with the diaphram
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Garik
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its possible to get rid of distortion ,but your audio will never sound the same 
it will take a chunk out of your audio,so you might as well do it over.
sorry no good news here.
it will take a chunk out of your audio,so you might as well do it over.
sorry no good news here.
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Synkrotron
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abalagula said:
pretty much what I was thinking
One thing I don't know, and it might be worth asking of the experts in these parts, is... how much can a mic take? I've always wondered about this and I've never yet taken any of my mics to the point where I can't get a clean signal regardless of trim setting on my recording gear... and I've recorded some pretty loud stuff.
So, the question to the mic experts would be:-
At what sound level, in dB, do microphones no longer work effectively?
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cpl_crud
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really depends on the mic, and it's usually listed in the specs.
The average is around 120 ish dBA//SPL
I have actaully had a singer clip the capsule on an SM58... quite an effort if you ask me...
But, more than likely, it's a damaged capsule or a crap cable rather than the capsule clipping.
Do you konw which mic it was? and can you post a clip?
The average is around 120 ish dBA//SPL
I have actaully had a singer clip the capsule on an SM58... quite an effort if you ask me...
But, more than likely, it's a damaged capsule or a crap cable rather than the capsule clipping.
Do you konw which mic it was? and can you post a clip?
