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Hey,

 

I get a bit of hiss when I record my acoustic guitars, I think its from my surroundings here at home, not an optimal enviroment in any way. But still I have the problem. When the guitars and vocals are in a mix i dont notice it, because its kind of low. But when I do a solo piece its there.

 

So can I reduce this in any way? any tools/plugins?

 

I dont think that I can do anything better in here recording-wise. Im afraid.

 

Thanks /S

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Hey,

 

I get a bit of hiss when I record my acoustic guitars, I think its from my surroundings here at home, not an optimal enviroment in any way. But still I have the problem. When the guitars and vocals are in a mix i dont notice it, because its kind of low. But when I do a solo piece its there.

 

So can I reduce this in any way? any tools/plugins?

 

I dont think that I can do anything better in here recording-wise. Im afraid.

 

Thanks /S

 

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I wonder if this trick works..When you're recording your guitars, take another take; you sitting on the exact same spot w/ same config (mic positions, distances etc.), but only record the silence. Then reverse phase and mix it with guitar track.

 

I have thought about doing this - Something to try tonight I think :)

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I wonder if this trick works..When you're recording your guitars, take another take; you sitting on the exact same spot w/ same config (mic positions, distances etc.), but only record the silence. Then reverse phase and mix it with guitar track.

 

Good idea, but unfortunately it won't work in practice - the background noise is going to be an inherently random waveform, so it won't "null" if you mix a polarity-inverted recording of the background noise recorded at a separate time - you'll just end up with twice as much background noise.

 

You will, however, want to record some of the background noise for the noise-reduction process in Soundtrack or SoundSoap to "profile".

 

Can you tell if the background noise is "acoustic" (i.e., refrigerator in the background, air conditioner, cars driving by outside) or "electronic" (i.e. noise floor of your mic/preamp/interface, not something in the room that the mic is picking up)? I've often had to unplug the fridge and other household stuff when recording with condenser mics at home. :wink:

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