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Cleaning up old demos with Audacity 2.0.5
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 3:45 pm
by analog
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.
Re: Cleaning up old demos with Audacity 2.0.5
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 3:43 am
by kozikowski
removing the metallic old sound and improving the quality.
The metallic sound is a combination of permanent compression distortion and what is probably fake stereo processing permanent distortion.
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
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 12:31 pm
by Trebor
analog wrote:... I am also trying to make the vocals louder ...
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.
You got a lot of work on your hands cleaning up the percussion ...
[ You'll need
Audacity's spectral edit tool for that ].