unbelievable noise

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hey guys,

I used some unfamiliar equipment in my school band room today, and set the levels way too low, and ended up wiht a great recording, except that its quieter than ever. I have to boost it up, but when I do the noise is completely overwhelming. Its not needed as "good quality" by any means, but is there anyway to get the noise SOMEHAT reduced? I mean it is COMPLETELY unlistenable. its very quiet music behind TONS of noise.

I have a clip on my website, and you'll see what I mean. you might want to fade in your speakers so the noies doesn't surprise you. just a warning. i dont think its tha tloud though... but check it out please!!! i really need an answer by tomorrow morning.



any body know any techniques to reduce the noise? I dont' care too much about if it changes the quality too much, because I just need it to be audible for an audition.


thanks for your help. this determines whether or not I go to a 5 week summer camp, and how much money I get.

THANK YOU BEYOND THANKS
 
Dude, no. That's like the worst I ever heard. I mean, you can set a parametric EQ real narrow and deep against that 2, 2.5, 3kHz noise peaks. Cut everything above 9kHz (especially the whine at around 14-16kHz), and a high pass at 60Hz. Use a broadband noise reduction plug against the hiss, but not too much, you'll need to mask the phase artifacts from all those EQ cuts. But there is no way that will ever be an acceptable recording.
 
Oh no, heck no, I would think this will ever sound good, but as a restoration or rough listening maybe...you're right, this thing is a mess. Maybe I missed the intent...put this on a CD for distribution...nuh uh...never gonna happen. I thought he just wanted to be able to recover it a bit for someone to hear a little better.

After listening to it again, I did go over-board with the noise reduction. I'm taking another shot at it here http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=7895 but yeah I'm getting the same thing, there's something nasty at about 2k Hz and them what sounds like harmonic and then just total hiss in the top from about 5k all the way up. Seems even after I notch all this out, there's not much to listen to.
 
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punkin said:
After listening to it again, I did go over-board with the noise reduction. I'm taking another shot at it but yeah I'm getting the same thing, there's something nasty at about 2k Hz and them what sounds like harmonic and then just total hiss in the top from about 5k all the way up. Seems even after I notch all this out, there's not much to listen to.
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Yep. Midrange and phase artifacts. I think you pretty much hit it, just dial back the broadband noise reduction enough to sound a little like tape hiss.

OP, you'd need somebody with a high-grade set of noise reduction plug, a fully parametric linear-phase EQ plug (ideally with those nice graphs where you can draw the cuts), and a fair amount of time.

If you're got money riding on this, you've got to retrack it.
 
mshilarious said:
Yep. Midrange and phase artifacts. I think you pretty much hit it, just dial back the broadband noise reduction enough to sound a little like tape hiss.

OP, you'd need somebody with a high-grade set of noise reduction plug, a fully parametric linear-phase EQ plug (ideally with those nice graphs where you can draw the cuts), and a fair amount of time.

If you're got money riding on this, you've got to retrack it.
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No need for me to weigh in. mshilarious knows his shit.

But consider this a lesson learned about tracking levels.
 
Don't disagree with that, just thought I'd take a shot at it. I gave it lighter touch but bear in mind, I'm no mastering wiz by any stretch, I ship it out. Just thought I'd try to give the guy a hand.

http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=7895

I'd really like to see what the pro's could do with a train wreck of a recording like that though.
 
oh no worries

this is juts for one person to listen to to determine if I can get into a summer camp. not for distribution purposes haha. i recorded it on a crappy little cd recorder, and the input knobs are SO sensitive that I ended up with this.

i might just go with a different recording I have, although the one made by punkin might be acceptable. thanks so much! perhaps ill send both, ist just that musicailly the noisy one is much better.

well thanks so much all ya'll, i'm sending it in tomorrow, and well find out what the results are.


thanks!!
 
sounds like the crap I get all the time sent to me! lol


hopefully the summer camp isn't a "recording camp"? :eek:
 
hahahah

haha no. its teh berklee summer 5 week performance program. its sick, but i missed the live audition date and have been jumping through hoops trying to get them to consider my application for a scholarship, and I'll find out soon.

thanks guys
 
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