Cerumen wrote on Tue, 18 May 2004 20:54 |
A click track bled into two instrument tracks. Is there a way to remove it digitally?
Thanks.
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Do you still have the (approximate at least) setup (mic position, gain, EQ, headphone level) in place, or good notes where you could reconstruct it? You could stick the headphones (assuming it bled from headphones) on a pillow or something and duct tape it to the end of a mic stand to approximate the position of the player's head, make another recording of *just* the click bleeding into the mics, then flip the phase and mix it with the real track and see if you can cancel out some of the click.
Less effectively, you might just bounce the click to another track, flip the phase, play with timing and EQ and see if you can mix it with the acoustic inst. tracks and get it to cancel.
At best you'll be able to mask it a bit, maybe enough that it does not really stick out.
This is a major problem in my studio FWIW.
You could always notch filter it. Depending on the click sound, you probably can isolate the frequency of the click and EQ it out with a really steep EQ setting. Might sound better or worse than the subtraction technique.
None of these of course are digital techniques, other than the fact that you can do them on a digital system.
Best of luck... that's a bummer when that happens.