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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: uninvisible826 on December 26, 2010, 09:10:13 AM

Title: Any good tips for reducing cymbal noise?
Post by: uninvisible826 on December 26, 2010, 09:10:13 AM

I have a pretty solid recording.  The levels were in the green for the whole show and after a few listens I think it sounds clean for the most part.  This was an energetic punk show, and while watching the drummer throttle his cymbals was fun, it just sounds like splashy white noise in the recording.  Is there anyway to reduce that cymbal noise in Audacity without also losing clarity on guitar and vocals?

I've been messing with the equalizer and trying some other rudimentary stuff but nothing seems to really push the cymbals into the background without also reducing the clarity of the melodic instruments.

Title: Re: Any good tips for reducing cymbal noise?
Post by: goodcooker on December 26, 2010, 11:23:58 AM

I use Multiband compression for things like that. Start with a broad frequency range and narrow it until you reach a place where it sounds good. If you think it still pushes the other instruments into the background you can clone the track and more heavily compress one of them while leaving the other untouched (parallel) . Mix to taste.

There's a thread about parallel compression around here somewhere.

edit: the parallel compression thread is about 5 posts down in this board.