Removing slide noises from acoustic guitar track?

[unpeople]

It seems that you're nobody on this site until you've posted five times. Sorry, but I'm too anxious to earn my wings, so consider this my fourth post...

[unpeople]

...and, as Beethoven once said, "this is my fifth."

[Aloysius]

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2107.html

Extra Boy Pro (name derived from 'Extract') can be used to isolate, remove, suppress or enhance ANY part of a stereo audio track.

Extra Boy Pro operates in real-time and is not restricted to vocal processing only. It incorporates a 2D Spectral-Spatial editing mode by which individual instruments, having been visually identified by their Spectral-Spatial graphical signature, can simply be deleted from the mix. Alternatively, an instrument that needs a boost can be boosted by simply drawing a Region of Interest (ROI) around its Spectral-Spatial signature and increasing the gain in that part of the mix. Multiple ROIs can be drawn and deleted independently. This provides the capability to delete, isolate or boost multiple instruments. A scrolling Spectrograph mode provides a further powerful diagnostic tool by which to visually identify individual instruments and edit their audio properties.

[jcrisman]

If you're handy with image-editing apps like Photoshop, there's a funky little program called Photosounder that converts sound into image files, which can then be edited using traditional image-editing tools. It's a little hard to explain, but go to the site and check out some of the demo videos, and you'll get the picture. It's particularly useful for isolating or removing instruments and sounds from complex recordings, which is exactly what you need to do. Admittedly, it's a somewhat wacky way to solve your problem, but it's so crazy that it just might work.

That's wild. I can't wait until I can get home from work to get to a computer with speakers.

It almost seems like I might be able to experience synesthesia vicariously without have to resort to hallucinogens.

I could imagine all sorts of fun cutting, pasting, and grafting pieces of different sound waves and product bar codes.

[rockstar_not]

If you're handy with image-editing apps like Photoshop, there's a funky little program called Photosounder that converts sound into image files, which can then be edited using traditional image-editing tools. It's a little hard to explain, but go to the site and check out some of the demo videos, and you'll get the picture. It's particularly useful for isolating or removing instruments and sounds from complex recordings, which is exactly what you need to do. Admittedly, it's a somewhat wacky way to solve your problem, but it's so crazy that it just might work.

Now, that's pretty interesting. I'm going to have to give that a try.

[geroyannis]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I have an old copy of Magix Audio Cleaning Lab which has a very handy spectral editor, much like the one in Adobe Audition or Elevayta Extra Boy. That did the trick very very well!!

[tehlord]

It seems that you're nobody on this site until you've posted five THOUSAND times. Sorry, but I'm too anxious to earn my wings, so consider this my fourth post...

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[unpeople]

If you're handy with image-editing apps like Photoshop, there's a funky little program called Photosounder that converts sound into image files, which can then be edited using traditional image-editing tools. It's a little hard to explain, but go to the site and check out some of the demo videos, and you'll get the picture. It's particularly useful for isolating or removing instruments and sounds from complex recordings, which is exactly what you need to do. Admittedly, it's a somewhat wacky way to solve your problem, but it's so crazy that it just might work.

That's wild. I can't wait until I can get home from work to get to a computer with speakers.

It almost seems like I might be able to experience synesthesia vicariously without have to resort to hallucinogens.

I could imagine all sorts of fun cutting, pasting, and grafting pieces of different sound waves and product bar codes.

I just stumbled upon this program recently myself. As it turns out, I'm both a professional photo retoucher and a professional musician, so this is right up my alley. What fascinates me is the idea of using Photoshop plugins as a new form of audio effects processor. For example, Photoshop filters like Gaussian Blur, Pixelate, and Curves are somewhat analogous to reverb, granularity, and dynamics in the audio realm. I imagine that running Motion Blur on an audio image would give an interesting reverb when set to 0°, but changing the angle would add a type of pitch bend. Or you could do crazy pitch bends similar to modulating with an LFO by applying Waves or Ripples. Or, like you said, you could chop up the audio image into pieces, and create mad loops by selecting a chunk of the image and creating a pattern or brush out of it.

[unpeople]

It seems that you're nobody on this site until you've posted five THOUSAND times. Sorry, but I'm too anxious to earn my wings, so consider this my fourth post...

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The thing is, this site wouldn't display my signature or weblinks until I had five posts under my belt. I don't mind being a nobody (for now), but I'm not down with my posts being treated as if I have leprosy.

Seven down, only 4,993 to go.

[chj]

OMFG automate volume!

This is the right answer, slides happen in between played notes so you can silence them completely (or greatly reduce volume) without really effecting the intended result. Trying to reducing a frequency range for the entire guitar track will effect played notes as well as slides.

Slides also tend to be lower volume already so slapping a noise gate on the guitar track may provide a quicker, easier way than automating volume. However, if the slides are too loud you may notice the noise gate chops the sound too abruptly and automating volume will be better.

[Real Grooves Audio]

I don't need to completely take the noises out guys, but I definitely need to make them softer. We have double-tracked the guitar part and given it a wide stereo image, which unfortunately means that you hear noises popping out of each speaker all the time. And the longish reverb I want isn't helping either It only pronounces the noise.

sellmestory I know what you're saying (I am a guitar player after all) but all those noises in our track are not soul, they are just sloppy playing.

Personally, I enjoy listening to a guitar that sounds as if it's been recorded by a real person. String noise is just part of the deal. You can de-emphasize it a bit with eq, etc., but you'll drive yourself crazy trying to create a guitar part that doesn't contain some bit of noise.

That being said, try flatwound strings. They have a more mellow sound, and you don't hear the "finger squeek" sound like on roundwound strings. I use them for my bass, and a lot of people (mostly Jazz players) use them on their gits.

[wavephonic]

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[Aloysius]

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