Soften the bass popping

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Greiga
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Soften the bass popping

Post by Greiga » Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:48 am

Pop Part 2.wav
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Hi, I'm dealing with a piece of sound that has too much popping in the bass or with the bass maybe too hard. I would like to get rid of this popping in Audacity without affecting the sound of the whole. As yet I'm not too skilled to get this done although I used among others Pop Mute etc. So I'm wondering if someone here versed enough could help me out...?

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Re: Soften the bass popping

Post by kozikowski » Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:21 am

I can't tell from the clip what's wrong other than it sounds funny. I don't think you can do anything in post production. How are you recording the guitar?

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Re: Soften the bass popping

Post by Trebor » Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:41 am

Greiga wrote:... I'm dealing with a piece of sound that has too much popping in the bass or with the bass maybe too hard.
I would like to get rid of this popping in Audacity without affecting the sound of the whole.
The plectrum noises can be reduced with Paul-L's DeClicker plugin for Audacity ...
Before-After DeClicker.wav
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but with the settings required it's very slow : ( takes 1 minute to DeClick 1 minute of mono audio ).
DeClicker settings used.png
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Greiga
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Re: Soften the bass popping

Post by Greiga » Sat Mar 11, 2017 9:05 pm

Thanks for reactions & solutions guys! That DeClicker whas precisely what I was looking for. Great tool... if you know how to handle it of course... But to be honest, I didn't know that it was the plectrum causing it, so that was the first step to the solution... :)

Gr

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