Get rid of existing Clipping??!
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Posted on Oct 18, 2005 03:47 pm
ledeux_machina
Member Since: Jun 04, 2004
Hi, how is everyone? Hope you are all well?
Anyway, Im working on a really nice little song for my next album and I recorded a perfect acoustic track (stereo mic`d) but annoyingly, I`ve just found that it has clipped quite badly on the second mic towards the end of the song. So, without re-recording, is there any way I can get rid of, or minimize the clipping? I thought about duplicating the 1st mic`s track near the end and just eqing it differently etc but it still has phase problems.
Any help would be much appreciated :)
Thanks alot.
Alex
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Oct 19, 2005 02:01 am If I had to choose between digital clipping with stereo acoustic guitars or mono acoustic guitar, I'd be going to mono in about a half a second.
If it's that big of deal, I'd rerecord it. You'll spend more time fixing it than it would take to rerecord, more than likely.
Brandon
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Oct 20, 2005 09:17 pm Sadly there is now way to fix digital clipping. Once it is recorded that way it is always going to be there. You can try reducing the level a bit and see if it mixxes in better but it probably wont help much. I would suggest as you stated replacing it with a copy of the part that isnt clipping and just EQ as best you can.
olddogMember
Since: Jul 02, 2003
Oct 20, 2005 11:31 pm Well if it was only in a few spots Audition has a neat new feature that you could remove the clipping, but it would be far too time consuming to do it for more than a few spots.
Dan
Oct 24, 2005 08:35 am I had this problem last year with the Happy Xmas (War Is Over) collab we all pitched in on...
Basically wasted a good bit of time trying to fix it when I could and should have done the copy/paste/new EQ trick...
In the end, I run another take (funnily enough it was also acoustic guitar!!) and found that was far easier...NOT ideal but alas, certainly easier than messing with clipping fixes.
Also, as Noize points out, it really is stuck there. You can perhaps tidy it, clean it a bit and maybe "Hide" it but it will be there...Olddog, that sounds cool but how does that work - presumbaly it must remove the offending part but also anything else on that frequency>?>?? That could be useful tho as ye say for wee fixes....
Anyways, good luck to ye. Been there, done that and wont do it again....all the best
Coco.
