bitflipper


I like your vocal booth, Matt. Necessity is the mother of invention.

It may sound very dead in there, but it's because the thin absorbers are sucking up mostly high frequencies, making it sound dead but actually having very little effect on lower frequencies. Below 500Hz you need to have LOTS of absorption to make a difference. I suspect your biggest problem may be the close proximity to the wall. Think about ways to maybe set up the booth further from the wall, or perhaps re-orienting things so that you're facing the wall when you sing (so that the wall's in the dead zone of your cardiod mic).

Oh yeah, well aware of the low frequency reverb I'll get. I actually intentionally had a few reflective surfaces inside the booth to help stop it sounding so boxy and give it a more of a neutral sound as much as possible. As for the comb filtering, maybe that's just it? Unless v-vocal was doing something else weird... I've done correction on 6 songs (this is number 7) and all were recorded with either my K2 or SM58 in EXACTLY the same spot with EXACTLY the same vocal booth. Nothing different. This is the only recording this is acting up, hence why I think it's just something in my voice being screwy... Thanks for the response.

Danny Danzi


Matt, lol....I don't mean to laugh as I know this is no laughing matter. But that artifact totally cracked me up!

To compensate for my laughter, I'll gladly try to fix this track for you. :) Split the section you want fixed, hi-lite it and then export it as a broadcast wave in the bit and sample you recorded at without any dither.

Send it to dannydanzi at dannydanzi dot com and I'll take care of it per your instructions on where you want it altered. I've used VV billions of times for clients and have never run into the issue you're running into. So if you need me, just send it and I'll email you back with a broadcast wave of that section fixed without artifacts. :)

-Danny

Haha, feel free to laugh away!! I've used VV maybe thousands of times (not quite billions :P) and this is also my first! I've had my issues but always found a workaround. Usually it was VV just being buggy. I can re-bounce or cut the clip down and then things work. Not the case with this one it seems... Bitflipper actually already had a go and he got the exact same issue! My clip (though only mp3) is downloadable from SoundCloud if you want to give that a 'test run' to see if you can find a solution.. I'm all out of ideas!