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Hi Folks,

I'm running Audacity 1.3 and wonder if someone can help me.

I've recorded a friends band live on a Zoom R16 then imported the individual tracks into Audacity.
So far so good. There is the perennial problem of bleed, guitar onto bass drum mic for example.
I've tried the normal Noise reduction and can't find settings that allow me to reduce the bleed without affecting the bass drum sound.

Can anyone suggest another plugin or settings for standard Noise reduction.

Thanks

Mike Abbott

As you suggest in your title, this could be a good candidate for using a noise gate.
There is a noise gate plug-in for Audacity here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Noise_Gate
(note this plug-in requires Audacity 1.3.x (1.3.13 recommended)

Instructions for installing plug-ins are here: http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins

I'm the author of that plug-in, so if you have any trouble using it, please don't hesitate to ask. In fact, any feedback about plug-ins is very helpful for making future plug-ins useful and user friendly.

Many thanks for the quick reply,

It's 1am here in the UK so I may well wait till tomorrow to try this.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Mike

Hi Steve,

I've tried the noise gate both with recommended and guessed settings. The bleedover is such that I can't reduce it to any great extent without adversley affecting the sound I want on the track.

I could try post a clip here but aren't sure how to do it.

Mike

mikethebass60 wrote:I could try post a clip here but aren't sure how to do it.

When you are creating a topic or a reply you should see a tab just under the Save Draft / Preview / Submit buttons at a tab which says "Upload Attachment"

WC

Thank you,

I've seen it now. I'll upload an example later.

Please upload it in either WAV or FLAC format (lossless formats).
The forum only allows short files to be uploaded, but we only need a couple of seconds.

Thanks Steve,

Is there a file size limit?

Yes - I think it's 1 MB.
(that's about 6 seconds for a stereo WAV file, 12 seconds mono, 20 seconds mono FLAC format)

Hi Steve,

Here is the unprocessed example of the bass drum track.

By the time the signal is normalised and compressed there is quite a lot of bleed.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Mike