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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: MSTaper on August 21, 2008, 09:26:18 PM
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Ok, I came home to check out the recording Son of MSTaper made Tuesday night at a show I was late to and I was wondering what the odd noise was in the first three tracks. My wife said it was Cicadas (those funky bugs that shed their shells on trees and such). I asked again because it was nice and quiet by the time the main act came on. I honestly doubt that there's anything you can do about insect noises, so I'm really just goofing on this one. ;) They were gone by the fourth song. I guess it add an outdoor southern ambiance to the recording! ;D If I knew how to post a sample, I'd do it just for fun.
MSTaper.
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c326/russ3523/CICADA.jpg)
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...crickets and cicadas sing... a rare and different tune... terrapin station...
Think of em as a blessing to your recording!
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Ok, I came home to check out the recording Son of MSTaper made Tuesday night at a show I was late to and I was wondering what the odd noise was in the first three tracks. My wife said it was Cicadas (those funky bugs that shed their shells on trees and such). I asked again because it was nice and quiet by the time the main act came on. I honestly doubt that there's anything you can do about insect noises, so I'm really just goofing on this one. ;) They were gone by the fourth song. I guess it add an outdoor southern ambiance to the recording! ;D If I knew how to post a sample, I'd do it just for fun.
MSTaper.
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c326/russ3523/CICADA.jpg)
Insect frequencies are usually very specifically harmonic and can be removed (often) by narrow-band filtering etc. Can you post an example?
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just goofing on this one. ;) They were gone by the fourth song. I guess it add an outdoor southern ambiance to the recording! ;D If I knew how to post a sample, I'd do it just for fun.
Actually, as I live in southern Ontario Canada, I'd like to hear a sample just to see if your sicadas sounds like our sicadas. I know from all the news reports of the huge population explosion in Ohio and surrounding states that their's don't sound like ours! Their's had more of a steady pulse to them. ours are more of a sustained bzzzzzz.
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Could someone please tell me how to post a sample? I can create an MP3 easy enough, but after that I'm lost! ::) MSTaper
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additional options>attachments>browse to your mp3>post (must be less than 512kb).
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Thanks Dre. Here's Dylan LeBlanc & The Cicadas!
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Thanks Dre. Here's Dylan LeBlanc & The Cicadas!
Nasty! :) Unfortunately you are in trouble with this one, the Cicada noise is quite broad-band and covers some important frequency bands in your recording, the best thing you could do is EQ down a few dB at the frequencies shown. I tried some spectral filtering but the nature of the Cicada noise means that it's hard to reduce without introducing artifacts in the recording.
(http://www.digifishmusic.com/public/images/TapersSection_Cicadas.jpg)
digifish
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Yeah, they were pretty active that night. When I arrived for the main act, they were luckily gone and it was nice and quiet. Of course, he was a loud louder than this acoustic act. It was only noticeable for three of his five songs. He's local so it's not a big deal. Thanks for taking the time to check it out. MSTaper