Topic: best way to get rid of, or attenuate, applause between songs...

[macdaddy]

taped an acoustic performance - so the btwn song applause is rough. is there a way to just squash the peaks, so that it doesnt sound like you have turned the volume knob, where all volume goes down...?

thanks...

[Brian Skalinder]

Compression.  Search for compression in the Computer Recording forum and you should find a post with more details.

[macdaddy]

thanks brian....

[greenone]

I'll echo compression...used it on a symphonic recording myself with great results.

[Karl]

a round of t's for the input... thanks.


any particular plugin, or are all compressions the same..?

Waves C1 does a beautiful job.

[Karl]

Do you also have the Waves Ultramaximizer?

I've been thinking about it--you'll prob be able to have an easier time dialing in something that sounds good with the Ultramaximizer.  And, using that, you can squash the applause, but leave the music virtually unaffected. 

Here's what I would do--locate the part of the music (not applause) that's the loudest, and use that as your reference point.  Figure out how many db below 0 that is.  Say it's -12.6 dB.  Then, go into Ultramaximizer, and set the threshold to -12.6 dB.  Then, set the release to 100 ms (you prob ought to play around with that number a little, to find out what sounds best--what doesn't make the applause sound so out of place).

Good luck!

[Brian Skalinder]

Two primers on compression referenced in these posts:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=17482.msg220504#msg220504
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=9124.msg107087#msg107087

A bit more info here:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=43912.msg565874#msg565874

And this is probably the lengthiest comment I've made re compression:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=9124.msg107047#msg107047