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Nasty Habit
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Registered: 06.Jul.07 |
Let me be the first to state the obvious: I need to buy a decent mic.
But is there a way to effectively remove the HUGE humming sound that I get with my microphone?
I have tried with CoolEdit Pro, but I do not believe the programmer was planning to waste his time on my weak-ass mic. It doesn't quite do the trick.
I don't need crisp clear vocals, but as things are I can only use my mic to make vocals that are going through the mingler anyway. |
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slammin vinyl
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Registered: 06.Mar.04 |
Nasty Habit wrote on 03 Oct. (9:21) :
Let me be the first to state the obvious: I need to buy a decent mic.
But is there a way to effectively remove the HUGE humming sound that I get with my microphone?
I have tried with CoolEdit Pro, but I do not believe the programmer was planning to waste his time on my weak-ass mic. It doesn't quite do the trick.
I don't need crisp clear vocals, but as things are I can only use my mic to make vocals that are going through the mingler anyway. |
Keep it away from your speakers for starters! if there is still hum, then the cable is probably too long and badly shielded - hence it picking up the hum. As for recording vocals, go buy yourself some ladies tights (stockings), and stretch them over a ring object type of thing, like grannies embrodiery ring! This is a cheap filter, and it works!
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tyr
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Registered: 04.Jan.05 |
Another way to remove hum, is to use a gate.
Simply set the gate threshold high enough so that you can't hear the hum,
just lower the gate threshold till you can't hear any background noise (but not more becouse you have something to record and wan't the sound intact),
when you sing (or record) the gate threshold is reached and the mic starts working again. |
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MatthijsB
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But the gate doesn't remove the hum where necessary.
Only on the parts where the input is below the threshold.
As Slammy said, better cables often are the solution.
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tyr
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Registered: 04.Jan.05 |
True, but you can also use an equilizer.
If you set an equilizers with narrow bands to 60hz, 120hz, 240hz, 480hz, (etc) you will filter out the harmonics of the electrical disturbance. I say 60hz becouse that is the frequency of your house electricity in europe (its 50hz in the states I think). This really works, but needless to say the first band will have to have the most dB reduction (lets say -12dB, the second -9dB...etc)
Now of course buying new shielded cables is of course a way better solution, but keeping mic (and speaker) cables away from power cords, outlets, and electronical devices will go a long way. |
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John Marwin
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Registered: 30.Jun.03 |
tyr wrote on 03 Oct. (16:00) :
True, but you can also use an equilizer.
If you set an equilizers with narrow bands to 60hz, 120hz, 240hz, 480hz, (etc) you will filter out the harmonics of the electrical disturbance. I say 60hz becouse that is the frequency of your house electricity in europe (its 50hz in the states I think). This really works, but needless to say the first band will have to have the most dB reduction (lets say -12dB, the second -9dB...etc)
Now of course buying new shielded cables is of course a way better solution, but keeping mic (and speaker) cables away from power cords, outlets, and electronical devices will go a long way. |
This is arguably the best way to filter it out, provided of course that you can't affect the source of the hum (bad termination etc), I used this when I was making a vocal project for a huge course in school, my teacher gave us high marks because I filtered out
the hum using EQ notches like that.
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Zepsi
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g
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Registered: 03.Jan.03 |
botb wrote on 03 Oct. (21:32) :
vocals are usually around 3000Hz/3200Hz I believe..
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That's of course given that you don't stray too far from G7. 
(unless of course you mean up to ~3kHz, in which case it makes sense).
If you want to get a cheap semi-decent microphone you can pick up Singstar, the microphones that come with it are USB. |
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Nasty Habit
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Topics: 7
Replies: 52
Registered: 06.Jul.07 |
tyr wrote on 03 Oct. (16:00) :
True, but you can also use an equilizer.
If you set an equilizers with narrow bands to 60hz, 120hz, 240hz, 480hz, (etc) you will filter out the harmonics of the electrical disturbance. I say 60hz becouse that is the frequency of your house electricity in europe (its 50hz in the states I think). This really works, but needless to say the first band will have to have the most dB reduction (lets say -12dB, the second -9dB...etc)
Now of course buying new shielded cables is of course a way better solution, but keeping mic (and speaker) cables away from power cords, outlets, and electronical devices will go a long way. |
I will try this... I can use the EQ workout anyway. |
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