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Having made a few records myself... when mixing with noisy source tracks, I generally choose to use console automation to mute the spaces between the notes, rat
by beat 10y ago
Having made a few records myself... when mixing with noisy source tracks, I generally choose to use console automation to mute the spaces between the notes, rather than trying to remove noise from actual signal, or even gate out the noise in the quiet spots. But it's more important to simply prevent noise in the first place.
On the first record I ever produced, I was credited with playing "furnace". We were recording in subzero January weather in Minnesota, and the furnace in my basement was very noisy. I'd go and turn it off, and we'd track as quickly as possible before the house got unacceptably cold and the furnace needed turned on again.
As an interesting aside, something a lot of newbie/hopeful audio engineers obsess about is "mic bleed", where the mic for one instrument picks up sounds from another. I mostly ignore this. Bleed is swamped by signal, and disappears into the mix. Even if a punch or edit fixes an error in the "bleed" instrument, it usually drowns out any error that remains in the bleed itself. Then again, audio engineering is full of a lot of nerding about second and third and even fourth-order effects, while ignoring first-order effects like "Is the song actually good?", "Is the performance good?"
- tdaltonc 10y ago> I generally choose to use console automation to mute the spaces between the notes. I recently had to make a promo video for my startup on short notice, with a less-than-idea setup, and I did the exact opposite. I filled all of the 'silent' parts of the video with 'ambiance' because the sudden drop to absolute silence sounded very jarring. I have no experience will audio engineering. I just thought it was interesting that we took opposite approaches to similar problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambience_(sound_recording) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambience_(sound_recording)
- beat 10y agoHorses for courses. This is why a little background music can be helpful - it fills those silences. In the case of mixing a record, there are other instruments in the silences, so noise is just competing with music.
- riprowan 10y ago> something a lot of newbie/hopeful audio engineers obsess about is "mic bleed", where the mic for one instrument picks up sounds from another. I mostly ignore this. A better approach to "removing" bleed is instead to make sure the bleed sounds good. Euphonic bleed is solid gold.