Maybe check the archive for "EQ." And yes, filtering is not easy,
but it is rewarding when the unique characteristics of a recording
start to shine through. Is there a noticeable delay in your
monitoring by chance? When you move the break point around, can you
hear the affect on sound almost simultaneously? Slow monitoring
response can really make equalizing much harder. I was playing with a
friend's Cool Edit application a few weeks ago and the built-in EQ
plug seemed to have a considerable delay between making an adjustment
and hearing it. Maybe someone on the list with low latency monitoring
using the CE EQ dsp can make some suggestions about the version, OS,
audio card, the amount of RAM they're using.
I have a huge Martian landscape collection, mostly from making these
mistakes: (1) Trying to "remove" a sound/bandwidth rather than
balance it more naturally with the frequencies around it. (2)
Forgetting to set the monitor level at the volume I plan to use it in
the mix (3) Not addressing the most offensive sounds first or
concentrating on one end of the spectrum too much and failing to
consider the overall balance. (4) Forgetting to switch a setting in
and out to assess the net affect before I move on to another
bandwidth. Rob D.
At 3:14 PM -0400 6/22/04, wrote:
>Well, I have used CoolEdit for several years and there is NO EASY way to
>filter. The noise reduction program does not work well and even the
>times I have
>used better ones in the studio they often come out sounding like Martian
>Landscapes. I have learned the hard way the best filtering is the
>least filtering.
>it is so tempting to cut off everything in the low base that is not at the=
Hz
>of the bird song..but then you have a tin like recording.
>
>My best advice is to go to spectral view to see where the sound is that yo=
u
>are interested in and determine where the bad ambient sounds are. Then use=
the
>FFT filter to carefully decrease the bad sounds. Set up a couple of base
>settings on the FFT preset for 0 both log scale and regular and work
>off these. I
>had several presets (2000, -15 etc.) but lost them when my 1.2 crashed.
>
>There is no quick, easy way to filter. If there is..please let me know !
>
>John
>
>John V. Moore Nature Recordings
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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