noise at end of song

[robjh22]

See the below quote? This was written by a friend who uses CoolEditPro in response to my question re: how to filter out white ambient noise at the end of a song without abruptly killing the decaying last note or chord of the song. Do we have something analogous to this "Amplituyde-->Envelope" function on the 80/160?

"You can decay a little longer on your notes the use the Amplitude-->Envelope tool and then make it fade out. In that window use the mouse to raise the left side up and the right side down on that line. That will fade it out. You can experiment
and undo until you get the length and type of fade correct. The only other option is to record with LESS background noise IF possible. Then the filter removing the noise wont have to be so powerful and it will also preserve much more of the high end frequencies too."

 

[billisa]

Originally posted by robjh22 The only other option is to record with LESS background noise IF possible. [/B]

I don't believe the VF's have the fade/filter feature, though someone may be aware of a workaround that tricks the machine into achieving the same result. I'd focus on having less noise to begin with. One way is to go to each track and erase immediately after the recorded signal is done on each one. Remember that noise is cumulative/additive, so a little noise on each track = a lot of noise when all are mixed together.

 

[robjh22]

Sure Bill, that works, but as I indicated, if you want a gradual as opposed to abrupt decay of the last note, it's hard to accomplish this. I think the answer has to be wrapped up in the judicious use of faders. My tendency has been to just reach over and hit "stop" whe I am finished, so I go from 100% to 0 immediately. That can't be the best way.

 

[billisa]

I think the answer has to be wrapped up in the judicious use of faders. My tendency has been to just reach over and hit "stop" whe I am finished, so I go from 100% to 0 immediately. That can't be the best way.

Definitely don't just hit stop. At least use the Master fader to fade out the whole mix, or use the individual faders if there are different fade points desired for different tracks... One thing to try is the fade-out during the bounce-down to 7/8. If you don't like it, just do it over. It's easier to do over a bounce down than a master.

 

[glynb]

If you have a vf160 with event recall you can set it to automaticaly knock out the tracks at the end of the song when they're finished. So for example if the vocal finshes a few bars before song end then get the vocal track out of there - it's not doing anything. Apply the same to all tracks that have 'finished' before the absolute end of the song. You can also do the same in sections of the song where there's no singing. All helps to cut down the overall noise level.

But there's really no siubstitute for making sure things are recorded with as little as possible superfluous background noise.