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May 19, 2012 at 4:09 am #558491
KaramaParticipantSo I’m on a mission right now to be able to contribute more to the site and my own projects by creating a wide range of acapellas for the types of music I listen to that I haven’t been able to find anywhere.
But my biggest problem has been that dreaded snare drum
I use Audition and my process right now has been to use a combination of the Central Channel Extractor, Noise Reduction, and my latest addition is using Mash Tactic for certain things.
But I cannot figure out how to AT LEAST lower the volume significantly on a snare without it giving my vocals a low quality, suppressed kind of sound.Any advice would be awesome if not I’ll probably figure out something eventually. Just wanting to give back to the community since I’m currently unemployed so I can’t really donate at this time
AdSense 336x280May 19, 2012 at 4:09 am #692786
KaramaParticipantSo I’m on a mission right now to be able to contribute more to the site and my own projects by creating a wide range of acapellas for the types of music I listen to that I haven’t been able to find anywhere.
But my biggest problem has been that dreaded snare drum
I use Audition and my process right now has been to use a combination of the Central Channel Extractor, Noise Reduction, and my latest addition is using Mash Tactic for certain things.
But I cannot figure out how to AT LEAST lower the volume significantly on a snare without it giving my vocals a low quality, suppressed kind of sound.Any advice would be awesome if not I’ll probably figure out something eventually. Just wanting to give back to the community since I’m currently unemployed so I can’t really donate at this time
AdSense 336x280June 21, 2012 at 11:48 pm #693381
transc3ndParticipantThere is a method which sometimes can be surprisingly effective… in the same way as you can use phase cancellation to make an acapella, if you can find a single clean snare hit somewhere, you can use this as a noise reduction profile (Adobe Audition and izotope Rx are both excellent at this), and then remove that profile from the rest of the track. If you can’t find the snare without the kick drum, simple filter off the low frequencies from the entire track, and use the new less-low end snare to take the noise profile.
While it’s not a foolproof method, you will almost always get at least some weird artifacts, you can usually use this method to either reduce the snare volume or remove it completely… obviously the more you remove, the more chance there is that you’ll get the weird artifacts.
AdSense 336x280June 22, 2012 at 5:38 am #693387
KaramaParticipantYeah that’s what I generally do but most of the stuff I’ve been working on unfortunately doesn’t really have any good spots where its just a snare. But since this was posted I started using mashtactic a lot more and it’s actually solving this problem for the most part but thanks for the reply
Much appreciated, cheers!
AdSense 336x280July 1, 2012 at 9:17 pm #693564
transc3ndParticipantNo worries dude! I’ve never heard of Mashtactic, think I’m going to have to check it out as getting increasing requests for mashups!
AdSense 336x280July 1, 2012 at 9:37 pm #693566
KaramaParticipantIt’s definitely a really good tool if you have like for example a snare drum or whatever that’s panned off to the side cause you can see it in the spectral view and you just draw a circle over it and turn the volume down in that circle and it completely removes that sound. But unfortunately the center channel is the big problem but you can definitely isolate things really well with it.
AdSense 336x280July 15, 2012 at 8:16 pm #693806
MC240384ParticipantAs mentioned, phase inverting it with a single hit snare drum will target the snare drum in the acapella and aim to cancel it out but you have to be so meticulously exact when lining them up by the transients in order for it to work.
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