Harsh High end hiss in mix

[darkstar7762]

I am mixing a song for a friend, being slightly less of a noob than him. When i turn up the volume i'm getting a lot of high frequency hiss even though its cut on the guitars by Eq. I'm wondering if its a phase issue, or too much distortion creating a big fuzzy wall. The guitars are ran through pod farm, and the mix still has some rough spots this one was a practice run but the high frequency hiss is unbearable. Any help much appreciated.

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[miroslav]

It's only there on some sections....probably a guitar track that was overloading something....sounds like it's part of the guitar tracks doing the repeating licks.

 

[Paschalis I.]

I am mixing a song for a friend, being slightly less of a noob than him. When i turn up the volume i'm getting a lot of high frequency hiss even though its cut on the guitars by Eq. I'm wondering if its a phase issue, or too much distortion creating a big fuzzy wall. The guitars are ran through pod farm, and the mix still has some rough spots this one was a practice run but the high frequency hiss is unbearable. Any help much appreciated.

Dropbox direct link here.

Hey there, have you tried adding a gate?

 

[darkstar7762]

Yeah, i played with the gate on pod farm. The noise seems to come from when all the guitar tracks start coming together, i may have to dial back the distortion because miroslav was right that when the leads come in you really hear the fizzy wall of distortion, thats also when theres a total of 4 guitars panned hard left and right and the lead down the center. On the other end of the spectrum the part at 2:15 lacks the annoying hiss quality and theres a lot less guitar going on.

 

[RAMI]

Yeah, i played with the gate on pod farm. The noise seems to come from when all the guitar tracks start coming together

Right. A gate won't help you at all. Gates only work when you're not playing. They don't do anything when you are playing.

 

[mjbphotos]

Are you running Podfarm 2.5x? Try a different distortion in PodFarm some of them are very fizzy.

 

[Paschalis I.]

Right. A gate won't help you at all. Gates only work when you're not playing. They don't do anything when you are playing.

Aw sorry, I should have mentioned that I meant an external one like the Waves C1 that works in between the playing,
pod farm's gate is really getting bypassed when the guitarist is playing my bad for forgetting to mention I'm talking about an external one.

@OP: Here's a video that I used a similar gate like the C1 gate, it's the reaper's stock gate, pretty useful:



Maybe this would help you out, if not, try using a de-noiser,
it works pretty well when I get mediocre rock/metal recorded rhythms guitars and I can't go back to the source to fix it.

 

[darkstar7762]

yeah tube screamer -> pod farm 2.5 cali diamond plate -> subtle compressor and limiting

I'm gonna dial back the distortion a little bit especially on the lead riffs and bring the cymbals down a bit and see where that gets me.
A C1 might get it done too though.

Thanks

 

[RAMI]

If a C1 works "in between the playing" (like they all do), how does that get rid of hiss WHILE he's playing? (which is the problem)

 

[Paschalis I.]

yeah tube screamer -> pod farm 2.5 cali diamond plate -> subtle compressor and limiting

I'm gonna dial back the distortion a little bit especially on the lead riffs and bring the cymbals down a bit and see where that gets me.
A C1 might get it done too though.

Thanks

Aw man, bypass the tubescreamer and make it active again while playing and try to figure out if that's what's triggering the noise.
I suppose it's the tubescreamer, it's a pretty sneaky little man!

Let us know if it's the tubescreamer, if yes, replace podfarm's tubescreamer with this:
TSE Audio - Software

It's freeware and better than most other paid tubescreamers
It's pretty "silent" compared to others too.