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wrote:
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Once you have tuned your ears to this noise, you can't let go of
it. It's everywhere, on all recordings and you feel like a fool: "How
could I ever feel proud of my old recordings?"
> <snip>
> Klas.
Thanks Klas. I've just started and I've already developed this
particular sensitivity. So it does go with this territory.-LOL
In an attempt at some self-noise mittigation, I've done some rig self
noise tests for each of the relative recording level marks, with each
mark recorded with it's own take. There are two places I know that are
the most anechoic in the haouse: the closet (but, too often, the walls
transmitt building noise), and under the bed (recalled from when I was
still small enough to fit under there-lots of dead air space). Here's
the mic set up I centered underneath the bed:
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I then recorded a digital metronome set at 40bps, about 3 feet away. The
consistent tone beat allows me to aurally"guage" level recordings (ear
experience) and the beat interval is long enough for the recording
set-up to recover and record the relative self-noise. (All done, of
course at 2:30am, well 3:00am since the 'fridge kicked in with a
perceptable humm ;) The resulting self-noise recordings give me a a
starting point for sampled removal that must be present in all
recordings where that noise is too distracting. That's the theory,
anyway.
-Robert
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