tape hiss..

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I found a tape with some songs of a band I played in a few years ago. We recorded the songs with a mic straight into a boom box. I have now recorded the songs from the tape to stereo tracks on my harddisk recorder, and I am having trouble with the tape hiss when I turn the volume up. Is there any frequencies or something I can cut to so the hiss will go away and I can mix the songs so they get louder?
 
What S/W do you have.
CEP and Audition have some good tools to remove tape hiss.
It takes a sample of the hiss and them removes it. If you take too much out it will sound like crap.

I think some DX and VST plugins are available to do that as well.
 
You could try recording the tape hiss on its own. Then playing the song along with a reversed phase version of the tape hiss and seeing how that works out. That might work.

Eck
 
ecktronic said:
You could try recording the tape hiss on its own. Then playing the song along with a reversed phase version of the tape hiss and seeing how that works out. That might work.

Eck
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A nice thought, but it won't work because hiss is random noise, not a periodic waveform. Take hiss from one part of a tape and then from another part and you'll never get them to line up any more than you can get two different mountain ranges to line up. Therefore inverting one will not even partically cancel the other.

G.
 
I don't understand what any of you are trying to tell me... so I guess there is no eq treatment that can reduce the tape hiss so that I can be able to mix the songs so that they get louder/better sounding????
 
Good info Glen, cheers. :)

Yeah you could use EQ to lower the hiss.
I would try getting your hands on Waves noise reduction plug-ins. These can be really good. They are pretty pricey.

Eck
 
EQ can help a little bit, but it can be hard to remove the bulk of the noise that will be around the same frequencies your music will be playing at. Since more likely than not the noise is not just in one specific frequency band.
Take a look at some of the noise reduction plugins. Here's a review of one withs some audio examples called Sound Soap
 
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