HI guys i need to ask i recoreded gutiars they came out great but there is a small pop in the middle anyway to fix it with out replaying it just is a great recoreding?

You have a number of options for noise reduction software.

I'd recommend investing in Adobe Audition as a Wave Editor which integrates well with Sonar. It has a good selection of noise removal tools, including a spectral editing view.

You can use this view to visually identify the unwanted sound and very often just snip it out.

Another wav editor that will let you draw out clicks and pops with a pencil tool is Sony Sound Forge.

I have actually fixed these things in Sonar. Frank Coffey's sugestion is the best route. (Use an editor that allows you to redraw the wav form with a pencil tool).

But in a pinch I have done the following procedure:

1) grab a single sample that is above zero just in case.
2) grab a single sample that is below zero just in case.
3) Zoom in on the pop and determine how many samples are involved.
4) Select single samples and increase or decrease by 3 db as required to reshape the pop.
5) When necessarry replace a positve sample with a negative sample or vice versa and increase or decrease by 3 db until you have successfully redrawn your entire pop.

I have completely repaired a single pop a couple of times this way so that the results were indetectable.

He, he NYSR, thats down right inovative.

Thx for the help just man about 3 pops in the gutair riff but it was played so well dont want to loss the take

HI guys i need to ask i recoreded gutiars they came out great but there is a small pop in the middle anyway to fix it with out replaying it just is a great recoreding?

I've often fixed problems like this by splitting the clip and then copying in a tiny clip of the same note from somewhere that didn't pop. With the right overlap and crossfades, this is undetectable. It might take a while to get it right the first time, but you'll be a whizz in no time.

Regards,
David

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Thx for the help just man about 3 pops in the gutair riff but it was played so well dont want to loss the take

The above suggestions are the next best thing and will work, but if you get serious about perfection you really should get a real wav editor some day and try it. The pencil tool in Sound Forge was just science fiction the first time I used it the thing blew my mind. Talk about playing God with audio there is nothing like the rush of fixing something you thought was impossible. I did a B side to a 45 once that was not available on any other media and went through inch by inch and drew out all the clicks and pops. It tooks weeks to finish it but the results were amazing. Every time I tried a plugin it messed up the tone but fixing each one by hand (and ear) I was able to completely restore the recording.

I don't know about other wav editors but Sound Forge will integrate with Sonar is a very nice way. It appears on the Tools menu in Sonar. When you click to select a clip you want to edit you can also make a selection within that clip while it's still in Sonar to make where the edit needs to be made. When you pull down the Tools menu and select Sound Forge it not only opens the clip in Sound Forge but it also transfers the selection within the clip you made in Sonar to Sound Forge so you are zoomed in and selected right where you need to be. I love it. That was very unexpected, it's rare with software works BETTER then you expect.

I have to agree! Very inovative! Also what dcastle suggests works as I've done that before I had Sound Forge! Wildman

He, he NYSR, thats down right inovative.

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He, he NYSR, thats down right inovative.

Hey Verne, just tryin' to protect your mind from fallin' prey to a negative worldview.