Topic: editing question...digital noise on recording

[fuzzyt11]

Hey all. I don't know if anyone can help out with this one. I recently recorded an intimate show by David Usher with about 100 people there. Most people where using their cell phones to do some video and photos. Some people would place their phones down near my recorder during the show. The recording turned out really clear and then there is a blast of digital noise coming through fairly often. I can only figure it was the darned phones interferring. Has anyone else had this issue before and does anyone know of anything that might help auto edit that out? I can manually take some of it out with sound forge and it's pencil tool but some of it is so hard to clean by hand. Any ideas of how to edit that out and maybe if there is a way to avoid this issue again? Besides getting cell phones banned (good luck there)
thanks

Rob

[nicegrin]

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=136039.0

[fuzzyt11]

thanks for the link

cheers

[andromedanwarmachine]

that's a classic issue I'm afraid.

I do a regular recording everyweek where I use my phone to take a couple of shots during the take and when I'm getting setup I move the phone into OFFLINE mode to avoid any interference.

Bad luck...

You could try actually deliberately recording some footage of this interference "clean" and phase inverting it and adding it back into the signal at the EXACT point that it happened (Walter Murch/ "The Conversation" style) and that might produce a result...

JimP