FILTERING in Cool Edit Pro??? (advise needed)

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hey everyone,

I'd really appreciate some advice regarding FILTERING. Here's my situation;

When listining through cds or vinyl I will often find potential samples that I want to use but in order to be able to use these samples, I need to learn how to FILTER out some of overlapping sounds like hi hats etc.

My questions are;

1) do many other Cool Edit Pro on here use FILTERING in a simalar way i.e. to eliminate unwanted sounds?

2) if so, what do you use to do it - just Cool Edit Pro? any special plug ins, hardware, other?

any additional FILTERING tips would be helpful too!

thanks!
 
1) do many other Cool Edit Pro on here use FILTERING in a simalar way i.e. to eliminate unwanted sounds?
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It's impossible to completely remove sounds from already mixeddown tracks.The best you'll do is make the sounds less noticeable. Eg Center extract/remove

2) if so, what do you use to do it - just Cool Edit Pro? any special plug ins, hardware, other?
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Unfortunately there's no special one fix all plugin or effect that can get rid of sounds all together.
 
I understand that I can't completely eliminate sounds. I'm happy just to reduce the sound I don't want and enhance the sound I do want via EQ and FILTERING. Is Cool Edit Pro a decent option to do this with?
 
You know they really named the program well ie: "cool Edit Pro"...

But anyway, yeah the filters in CEP are definatly capable of achieving what youve want:

(i think your talking about taking like a slice of a sample, or a chop, and filtering/EQ'ing out like the drums, or an instrument to chop in2 a mix)

In Edit View:

take your sample, or waveform,

select what portion of it youll be manipulating, trim to size etc.

GoTO: Effects>Filters>Parametric Equalizer

This is basically an EQ, but very fined tuned and precise...

Youll see the channellslides in the middle, underneath the graphic view, all transparent until you check them on,

each is already preset to a certain area of sound..eg: the lows, mid-lows, mids, high mids, highs etc....running from top to bottom in that same order.

when you select one on, youll see a little star appear on the graph above.
This is a visual representation of the frequency your going to be altering.

If u selct channel 1, the star'll appear, and youll notice a slide with the same channel number illuminate on the upper right...use this to make fine tuned changes of a few dbs here or there....

u can also be sloppy and click on the the star itself....

to the right youll see a box with a number representing the"Q" or "width" of the channel....a low Q, like say Q of 1.3, will be affecting a broader area than a High Q, of like say 10 or 12, which is "narrow".....

Ima post a link to this site about frquencies and which affects what type of instruments, gimme a while.....

Yeah CEP is great for filtering, among loads of other stuff...

Try the Parametric EQ and experiment with the presets and low Q, High Q etc..

The other options in "Filters" also may interest you, just experiment...

anything else let me know...

link coming soon
 
^^^^

you're a legend - thanks for the help!

(I'm gping to go and experiment with it now)
 
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