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Cleaning kick samples
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| JVH |
Hi, I have noticed that no samples, even from very good sample cd's, are clean. Most have background noise or a rumble at about 100Hz.
I was just wondering how everbody clean these samples. Do you just use EQ? This is very difficult as most of the 'rumbles' seem to be at about 80-100Hz which is the centre of the kick.
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| armanivespucci |
| quote: | Originally posted by JVH
Hi, I have noticed that no samples, even from very good sample cd's, are clean. Most have background noise or a rumble at about 100Hz.
I was just wondering how everbody clean these samples. Do you just use EQ? This is very difficult as most of the 'rumbles' seem to be at about 80-100Hz which is the centre of the kick.
Thanks |
I don't really know what you're talking about, but my kicks don't rumble. Perhaps it's your sub? ;)
I have Mackie HR624 monitors, and the Vengeance/Icone kits sound great. No "rumbles" in the kicks unless deliberate.
If you feel that there is background noise, you might want to either EQ out the highs, which give kicks an "airy" feel, or you might want to use something like Waves Bundle X-noise, which gets rid of noise rather effectively. Really, though, there shouldn't be "rumbles" in high-quality kick samples.
-Armani |
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| thoughtlessjex |
If by 'background noise,' you mean a bit of multifrequency noise across the spectrum, I wouldn't be too worried. Most trance kicks these days have a lot of 'noise' added to give the kick some snap.
If by 'rumble' at 100 Hz, you mean the kick seems unnaturally loud at that frequency, it's probably your sub, as Armani noted. I know that for my crap stereo, I get way to much in the 90-100 range. What kind of sound system do you have? |
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| Atlantis-AR |
^^
I don't think JVH was talking about kick samples specifically, was he?
I agree though, 100 Hz 'rumble' doesn't make a lot of sense. What does though, is if there's rumble around and below 20 Hz, often resulting in a DC offset. Just highpass these unwanted frequencies out and you should be fine, as you generally shouldn't have to do any noise reduction unless the recordings are really bad - and the noise wouldn't be around 80-100 Hz anyway. Sometimes you might also find the unwanted bass frequencies bleed higher up, even though 80-100 Hz does still sound quite high. Still, you can just increase the highpass cutoff until you get the sound you want.
EDIT: should've read the topic title :p |
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