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Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:23 am
by topmo3
So i got great new jack swing 'pellas but they're like 128 kbps and have vinyl crackle and pop all over them.. is there any way to compensate this? i run ableton

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:33 am
by wub
You can use a de-esser to remove some of the background noise/pops & clicks, but you'll only be to tidy up what you have. If you want a better quality, you'll need to find the source and rip one yourself.

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:52 am
by topmo3
ok. de-esser also fux wit the vocals

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:32 pm
by GenericNameHere
Use a bitcrusher.

You don't need to clean up the vocals. Keep 'em derty and unique, make something cool with them: Be creative.

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:52 am
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
hm yeha noisegate too maybe so you kill of everything quiet or a dunno iuf its the same like a de esser but like a de noise tool dunno its like a noise gate but some of them kill of dif areas too like sides or yeah best would be anyways to try to delete the sides with a eq and see if it gets cleaner and add some wide later. hm or make a chiptune

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:16 am
by Electric_Head
So you have no clue?
Good advise bud.

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:16 am
by mthrfnk
BudSpencertron wrote:hm yeha noisegate too maybe so you kill of everything quiet or a dunno iuf its the same like a de esser but like a de noise tool dunno its like a noise gate but some of them kill of dif areas too like sides or yeah best would be anyways to try to delete the sides with a eq and see if it gets cleaner and add some wide later. hm or make a chiptune
hahaha.

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:24 pm
by Gribble
You can get a demo of Zynaptiq Unveil - this will remove reverb from a vocal.

High pass the lower noise and rumble.

Gating can be useful for taking out noise.

Programs like Audition can sample the noise, create a noise profile then remove it from the entire vocal.

De-click, de-pop and de-noise are useful tools too.

Mid/side eq can also help. Sometimes the voice is stronger in the middle so you can lower the side volume or just use the mid signal.

Don't use a de-esser, it will make the voice sound like it has a lisp if you use it too much. There are better tools for this job!

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:29 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
haha yeh i kinda nowthe shit just not the names lol basically fuck the vocals until you like them

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:33 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
Gribble wrote:
De-click, de-pop and de-noise are useful tools too.

Mid/side eq can also help. Sometimes the voice is stronger in the middle so you can lower the side volume or just use the mid signal.

Don't use a de-esser, it will make the voice sound like it has a lisp if you use it too much. There are better tools for this job!
thats what i ment jsut in english :w:

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:47 pm
by mromgwtf
Boost high frequencies and it'll sound more quality :corndance:

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:54 am
by Libra
Waves xcrackle and xnoise does amazing thing to this kind of material

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:27 am
by Augment
Download the demo for mspectraldynamics and try the noise removal tool in there. U can have it create a noise profile if u have parts where there's only noise and no vocals, then have the noise removed that way

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 2:01 pm
by mistayif
bitcrush that bitch, add a bit of hp filtering and distort that bitch

Re: Compensating poor acapella quality

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 2:41 pm
by gαммα
what i usually do to reduce background noise is use a transient shaper and lower the release
i then compress and repeat until the background noise is gone but dont overdo it or it makes the vocals sound too weak