On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:50:58PM +0000, Daniel James wrote: > > I've got a vocal track that I recorded using ardour, and I have some > > serious pops in it from the singer being way too close to the mike and > > taking off my lovely pantyhose-over-a-wire-hangar-loop filter. > > > > I'm at a loss as to what filter/tool I might be able to use to reduce the > > severity of this... any clues? > > First, you could compress the vocal to even out the levels - I use the LADSPA > Dyson Compress or SC4 plugins for this. Compression by itself might make the pops worse by reducing the peak levels of proper vocals, unless the pops peak louder than the vocals. I'd suggest trying either or both of: (a) a steep cutoff high pass filter, set as high as you can without strangling the vocal (b) separating the low frequencies from the rest of the spectrum and compressing/limiting the LF severely, with a threshold just high enough not to affect the vocal, and recombining. A multiband compressr such as used for mastering could be set to do this, with compression only on the LF end of the spectrum. You'd probably want to go through the filter before compressing. > You'll still have the distortion from the pops though. I suggest you > make it a feature If there's distortion, that's about all you can do :-/ -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: 01638 720444 http://www.treewind.co.uk Mob: 07976 263827
