Fixing POPS on the vocal track.

[Slowjett]

Mind you I'm still new to this stuff. =]

I just wanted your input on how you handle those boomy pops in the vocal track. Obviously "have em sing it over!" or "use a pop filter moron!" are good options!

But in this case I was mixing a live show. The mic had quite a bit of boomy popping on the T's and P's and what not.

In Cubase I highlighted the suspect wave form section. Right clicked and went down to Plugins. I used a line graph EQ (like waves renEQ-2) and set the low end to a very HARD roll off and as the preview of the bit of audio looped over and over I dragged the roll off from left to right till the boom was gone. Hit process and it was gone very seemlessly.

Is how it is typically handled?

-Josh

 

[mshilarious]

Mind you I'm still new to this stuff. =]

I just wanted your input on how you handle those boomy pops in the vocal track. Obviously "have em sing it over!" or "use a pop filter moron!" are good options!

But in this case I was mixing a live show. The mic had quite a bit of boomy popping on the T's and P's and what not.

In Cubase I highlighted the suspect wave form section. Right clicked and went down to Plugins. I used a line graph EQ (like waves renEQ-2) and set the low end to a very HARD roll off and as the preview of the bit of audio looped over and over I dragged the roll off from left to right till the boom was gone. Hit process and it was gone very seemlessly.

Is how it is typically handled?

-Josh

It works, although I find it's just as easy to edit the pop out completely using a volume envelope.

 

[travelin travis]

i'd probably try using a volume and/or eq envelope.

 

[Slowjett]

I was gogin to do that initially (i used to do that in n-track) but i cant figure out how to do it in SX

 

[giraffe]

either is fine, a combo is the most natural sounding to me.

 

[Halion]

Use automation though. Destructive editing like that (the process > plugin way) if not very smart, because if you make a mistake, your fairly screwed.

Your gonna have to check the manual on that though.

 

[ocnor]

A parametric EQ works well because you can cut the offending frequencies and leave the rest in tact.

 

[giraffe]

Use automation though. Destructive editing like that (the process > plugin way) if not very smart, because if you make a mistake, your fairly screwed.

Your gonna have to check the manual on that though.

not sure about the program he's useing.... but it's not distructive in protools.

(unless you go out of your way to make it so)
and remember the "heal" function.

 

[scrubs]

Yeah, rolling off the bass, or using a parametric eq and "finding the frequency" will make it less noticeable, since it's mostly low frequency energy causing the pop. Compression or volume envelopes will bring down the levels.

 

[ocnor]

Use automation though. Destructive editing like that (the process > plugin way) if not very smart, because if you make a mistake, your fairly screwed.

Your gonna have to check the manual on that though.

Destructive editing? It's not like you are splicing tape or something. If it doesnt sound right you just hit the "undo" button. Any track that I know will need heavy editing I always make a copy of first. Then I edit the copy and if I butcher it too badly I just start again.