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SoundSoap + other audio effects
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:04 am
by michkhol
Hi,
I'm here again with questions due to lack of hands-on experience. I was trying to clean a recording with Soundsoap 2 and Ableton Live and when I added a reverb to the effect chain the sound became unlistenable (clicks, pops, gaps). The CPU usage was about 35%. Anyone with Soundsoap & DP experience, does it happen to you too? I tried Eq->Compressor->SoundSoap->Reverb in that order.
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:53 pm
by chamelion
On the few occasions that I've been unable to get a satisfactory result with Sandsoap 2, Audacity has saved the day. Audacity is a free audio editor that includes the ability to remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises. Like Soundsoap, you just feed it a small sample of the offending noise and activate the feature. I've found the results to be excellent, and free is hard to beat.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Cheers,
Geoff
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:12 am
by jlaudon
IT would probably work better to soundsoap on the very original track, then bounce it, then add other plugins (you can also check to make sure the bounced track is "clean" first, with no pops, hiss, etc...).
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:45 am
by michkhol
chamelion wrote:On the few occasions that I've been unable to get a satisfactory result with Sandsoap 2, Audacity has saved the day. Audacity is a free audio editor that includes the ability to remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises. Like Soundsoap, you just feed it a small sample of the offending noise and activate the feature. I've found the results to be excellent, and free is hard to beat.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Cheers,
Geoff
Thanks! My first attempt to clean a small area of my 57 min 96/24 mono track ended up with the beach ball of death, but I'll give it another try.
try segmenting the file
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:03 pm
by Michael Labay
i just experienced a crash with soundsoap (standalone app) and a very large mono, 16 bit file. (4.3 hrs !! long...)
so i am dividing up my file into smaller bite sized morsels. I think maybe with a 96k file that's a hour long, you might be experiencing some sort of file size limit?? just a guess
Re: try segmenting the file
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:15 pm
by michkhol
Michael Labay wrote:i just experienced a crash with soundsoap (standalone app) and a very large mono, 16 bit file. (4.3 hrs !! long...)
so i am dividing up my file into smaller bite sized morsels. I think maybe with a 96k file that's a hour long, you might be experiencing some sort of file size limit?? just a guess
No, I just had clips, stutters and occasional gaps with SoundSoap. It was Audacity that died attempting to clean a small section of the file (about 1 min).