I need a smart engineer to answer a few questions!

[hellofellow!]

First, duplicate the track then on the first track, isolate the "ooooh" sound. Find what frequencies are causing it. Go to the second (duplicated) track and invert the EQ of the "ooooh". Send both tracks to a third track and the phase cancellation of both EQ's will eliminate the offensive sound. Worth a shot.

Ok- so what you are saying is eq all of the frequencies down on the first track except for the offensive soud- on the second track eq the offensive sound up and then send them both two a third track?

 

[bongoboy]

We all get better in time. Find the source of what the problem is. Your description is pretty vague. An "ooooh" sound can be caused by many different things.

 

[hellofellow!]

We all get better in time. Find the source of what the problem is. Your description is pretty vague. An "ooooh" sound can be caused by many different things.

The sound is like the sound of feedback-also like if you to the 100hz-200hz and boosted it up all the way.

 

[Mo Facta]

Can you explain phase response and phase- what drtechno is talking about?

Forget about the term "phase response" for now. Phase is the time difference, usually expressed in degrees, between a signal arriving at the same destination from two capture points, such as two mics or even your ears. When two identical signals are "in phase", the crests and troughs of the waveform line up. When they are out of phase, one is shifted. Combining the two signals will create "phase shift" which will cause a tonal change (often hollow sounding) called "comb filtering". Also, with complex signals, phase shift is not linear and is frequency dependent. In other words, some frequencies will be canceled and some will not, usually to some harmonic order which is why the resulting filter looks like a comb. This depends on the frequency content of the original waveform. More here:

Phase Demystified

Also, sometimes when I record I will a lot of low end, it can sound very cloud and obnoxious like someone is right next to your head saying "oooooooooooooooooooooooh!" what levels of even If I eq some of the sound out it's still there when I turn the fader up, just not as present as the other frequencies. How do I get rid of this "ooooooooooh!"?

Simply notch it out as suggested. Use a parametric EQ with a narrow Q to find the offending frequency and attenuate it accordingly.

Cheers

 

[thesoundtek]

Just my 2 cents. I agree that mixing on headphones is not the way to go if you have the room for speakers but if not there is a free pluggin called "Vnophones" that bleeds a portion of each signal (left and right) to the opposite ear phone to virtually create the Haas effect that was mention earlier. It comes with a few presets and of course you can tweek it. Is it perfect..no, but if you are cramped for space or live some place where mixing on speakers is prohibitive you can actually get some pretty good results by plugging it into the master track while you are doing your mix down...just remember to by pass or remove it before you render your tracks down to a 2 track project. good luck.