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EQ'ing scratches from vinyl
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| FirstBorn |
Hi,
I hope this hasn't been asked to death before - I did a search but couldn't find anything similar.
I bought a pretty rare 12" second-hand from someone recently and it arrived with a small scratch on it. Nothing too serious but just enough to annoy me (and the dancefloor) if I played it out. Ideally, what I'd like to do is record it and EQ out the scratch - but I have no idea how to do this. Does anyone know of EQ settings I can use to do this?
All input gratefully received - thanks in advance. :) |
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| TVG |
| Well the part that would be hard in the ears the most would be in the high frequencies. |
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| ehRipper |
| Download the mp3 :) |
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| PutBoy |
| Don't think you can EQ it, I would suggest gating. |
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| DJ 00 Tommy |
| Depending where the scratch is you could just copy another part of the song. |
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| FirstBorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
Depending where the scratch is you could just copy another part of the song. |
I'm attempting it at the moment but unfortunately it's during quite a busy part of the track where it's not as simple as just copying a drumloop or a groove. I'm sort of resigned to the fact that I may just have to accept that there'll be a loud snap whenever I play it out. :rolleyes: :( |
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| aquila |
| Have a look at Sony's (Sonic Foundry) Noise Reduction plugins. There's a really good pop and crackle filter for this very purpose. |
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| retrobyte |
| Adobe Audition is really good at reducing transients - I use it all the time to get rid of pops/clicks (manually!). check it out and see if it works for you. |
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| groundzero74 |
| Try Waves X-Click and X-Crackle , you might be able to at least take down the 'pop' without compromising too much of the overall sound quality. |
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| FirstBorn |
| Thanks for the advice guys - much appreciated. Will investigate some of these and see what happens. :) |
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| Beautiful Beast |
Hi,
if you have the option of transfering and playing the 12" from CD; record the 12" to WAV. Open in Sound Forge or any other decent wave editor. Zoom in on the tick as much as possible - mute only the tick (will show as a spike in the graph)/. You're done.
If you keep the muted part very short in length, it will be almost unaudible. At least it will sound less harsh then ticks.
cheers,
BB |
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| Jinyun |
I agree, noise reduction plugins would probably be best for this problem.
There are also plugins for anti click that might be very useful. |
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