I’m on a quest to learn techniques for clearing up some particularly nasty artifacts on a poorly recorded acapella that I’ve been working with for my latest mash-up (TBA — stay tuned). There’s a ton of record crackle and hiss, along with a bit of annoying high-end percussion that I’d like to reduce/remove. I’d also like to open up the vocals a bit so they sound sonically similar to the other accompanying vocal in the mash-up.
In my search for production tricks and suggestions, I happened across this thread at the Acapella Heaven forum. It’s given me some interesting ideas to try. After some vinyl restoration clean-up in SoundForge, I plan on gating the acapella to reduce the interim high-end percussion between phrases, compress that a bit, and then send it all through a doubler effect. Any other ideas to clean and add sonic depth to an acapella track?
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This gybo thread:
http://gybo.proboards4.com/index.cgi?board=construction&action=print&num=1090972850
mentions soundhack for shaving off specific frequencies — there’s a 14 day demo period and you’ll need it but its amazing at gating tiny portions of the freq. specturm.
http://www.soundhack.com/shapers.php
Just look for a better copy of the acapella. If you look hard enough you’re bound to find a better recorded version.
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