how can i cut the puff?

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vivien

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Hi everybody!
I made some records last week, but i have too much "puff", what are the best filters(or settings) to cut it?
Thanks for your answers.
 
sorry

Sorry I am French, i wanted to say breath, wind, you know something like ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff,(when the signal is too low).
 
Sounds like you need a pop-screen in front of your mic to control plosives.

Bruce
 
Re: sorry

vivien said:
you know something like ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff,(when the signal is too low).
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Sounds like you're describing the noise floor.

1) Get your incoming signal as strong as possible without clipping. Get it strong at the beginning of your signal chain and keep it strong throughout it's path.

2) Try analyzing your noise floor (for each recording) by using, uh... (at work, gotta remember)... Transform/Noise Reduction/... shit, it's the one with the green, yellow, and red lines (starts with yellow and green, i think). ANYWAY, "get noise floor" on a part of your recording that is "silent," but that still has the fffffffffffff, and then "reduce" this by like 4 dB or so (any more and you start to be able to hear digital shit on playback). Put it on high precision, which might take a little while to do on a slower computer.

3) Try identifying equipment that makes noise, and either get rid of it or replace it.

Hope that helps. If you're talking about a "de-esser," you'll find it in Dynamics Processing (the compressor, in the transform/amplitude/dynamics processor). It's one of the presets, works decently with "s"ed vocals...
 
Yeah try that.

Humph. I was wondering what that de-esser was all about. See it pays sometimes to loiter.
 
Okay, Vivien, get out your francais/anglais dictionary. Are you talking about plosives because you're singing into the mic without a popscreen, or are you talking about hiss that you can hear on tracks when there's no music?
 
It is not a problem of popsreen, i think the original source was not amplified enough, and now there is a constant hiss as noisy as the music. Just imagine a record with very low volume, and then amplify the record with a bad amplifier: you will hear my problem.
 
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