How do you remove pops from audio recording?

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2012/12/27 11:47:40 (permalink)

How do you remove pops from audio recording?

I love Sonar X2... however I am still in the learning curve having learned from Pro Tools, so I am still getting used to how Sonar works. I recorded my daughters singing, she has an incredible voice, but she sings really soft. So soft that I had to jack up the volume on the inputs and compress the signal to get a reasonable signal. The result of which was a great vocal performance, but there are several pop (on P's) throughout the recording. Is there a way to remove them w/o screwing up the rest of the audio? R

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    garrigus
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    Re:How do you remove pops from audio recording? 2012/12/27 11:53:54 (permalink)
    You can use an automation volume envelope on the track to lower the volume of each pop manually. Or you can try using a multiband compressor. Check out Power Tip #9 on this page...
    http://www.garrigus.com/p...oks/SONARPowerTips.asp

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    Re:How do you remove pops from audio recording? 2012/12/27 15:37:54 (permalink)
    but there are several pop (on P's) throughout the recording. Is there a way to remove them w/o screwing up the rest of the audio? R



    In the future, use what's called a "pop" filter (plosive filter) when recording the vocal.
    This will diffuse the plosives... eliminating them from the start.


    When dealing with an existing track that has plosives:
    Sonar allows you to add realtime EFX/processing to individual clips... in additional to tracks/busses.
    Split each of the plosives off into separate clips (s key) and add a high-pass filter to just the plosive clip/s.
    Adjust the high-pass filter's cut-off frequency by ear... until you hear the plosive reduced.
    The bulk of the energy for the plosive will be in the 50-80Hz range.
    This will leave the vocal untouched/unaffected... except for the plosives.


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    Re:How do you remove pops from audio recording? 2012/12/27 16:12:10 (permalink)
    Also, for info on the automation I mentioned, check out this video...

    * Cakewalk SONAR: Automating Data Selections
    http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/video.asp?ID=6

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    Re:How do you remove pops from audio recording? 2012/12/27 16:23:54 (permalink)
    Are these pops clipping?? you said you had to turn up the preamps allot. M<aybe you clipped thge signal. Clipping in some cases cannot be removed without hurting the track. If you cliped the converters, re-recordign may be your only choice if you do not want to degregade the track qulity
     
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