Cleaning up old demos with Audacity 2.0.5
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Cleaning up old demos with Audacity 2.0.5
I've got some old Van Halen demos from 1973-1976, and I've been trying to remove their metallic, tinny sound and plastic drum sound. I am also trying to make the vocals louder. To be precise, I am working with this, which I downloaded as an MP3 stereo file. I have been using noise removal, normalisation, the compressor and boosting the bass, and so far, so good. But I need help on removing the metallic old sound and improving the quality.
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Re: Cleaning up old demos with Audacity 2.0.5
The metallic sound is a combination of permanent compression distortion and what is probably fake stereo processing permanent distortion.removing the metallic old sound and improving the quality.
We're very clear that we can't take processing out of a performance. That's why we require voice performers to give us raw capture clips, not post production fails.
Is it possible to get work closer to the original?
Koz
Re: Cleaning up old demos with Audacity 2.0.5
Make an in-sync duplicate of the original track, [Ctrl+D], then apply isolate vocals to the duplicate track, then mix that back with the original to boost the vocal volume.analog wrote:... I am also trying to make the vocals louder ...
You got a lot of work on your hands cleaning up the percussion ... [ You'll need Audacity's spectral edit tool for that ].