What have I done here? My other tracks don’t have this, but I’ve got 20 minutes of this and have no clue how to use that deesser
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I like the voice. Can you post a similar segment that sounds normal?
I don’t think you have classic ice-pick in the ear Essing, so I don’t think DeEsser is going to help. You have more like “Effing.” “From City Liffs.” Interesting that all the SS sounds are not affected.
Can you repost more of that damage—and in WAV (Microsoft)? An MP3 posting can cause its own distortion and hide symptoms.
The forum will allow 20 seconds of mono (one blue wave)
Do you use your machine for multiple jobs? A common cause of sound distortions can be a chat program, conference, or game running in the background. Try a clean shutdown. Ctl-Alt-Del to get the system screen, then hold Shift while you shut down.
Still do it?
Koz
There’s notches at 6kHz and 8kHz which makes it sound lispy in places
Possibly someone has attempted to de-ess with notch filters.
I noticed there was haystack distortion, but it was in the wrong place. There’s actually a valley at 3000Hz. Probably why the presentation doesn’t have that piercing, irritating sound.
But no further ahead. What could cause that?
I can’t wait for the clean sample.
Koz
After a Zoom session, the system is using the wrong microphone?
We’ll also see if the Clean Shutdown has any effect.
Koz
Huh? Not sure what you mean.
We would like to hear a sample of the clean tracks. The ones you produced before this damaged one.
Don’t cut it off too soon. Your damaged sample was three seconds and that’s difficult to analyze and inspect. It’s too short. The forum will cut you off at 20 seconds mono (one blue wave). 10 seconds is good.
Koz
Different problems can have different sounds. If you analyze enough different problems, you can get good at recognizing the acoustic symptoms. That’s why we insist that you post “clean” samples of the damage, samples you haven’t tried to fix. We want to fix the computer, not your editing technique.
That’s also why the sample shouldn’t be too short. We need examples of many different expressions and words. In your quick post, I think the valuable sound is in the last word. One portion of one word.
So that’s the damaged sample. Sometimes we need to listen to a sample of the work you produced that was OK. The clean work. We are reminded of the forum poster whose natural voice sounded like a broken microphone. Hard to fix that.
Koz