[Ardour-Users] Reduce Noise

[Ralf Mardorf]

Christopher Stamper wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM, teza <tsaliou75 at orange.fr> wrote:
>   
>> Hi everyone, somebody could tell me how to reduce noise generated by an
>> overdrive on a guitar track, and How to reduce noise ingeneral.
>>     
>
> You want to know how to reduce noise in a file that already exists, or
> do you want to know how to make your recordings have less noise?
>
> What kind of noise is this?
>
> Can't help much without this kind of info...
>   

Yes, more info is needed. Anyway, here are some hints. If you are using 
single coils, like I do, you have got an antenna for electric fields. 
Keep away from monitors, power supplies, computers. Try to play with two 
single coils and to get the sound of just one single coil screw one near 
to the strings and the other away from them. For amp recording forget 
galvanic isolation, use microphones or if possible for the needed sound, 
connect the guitar without an amp to the mixer. You can decouple Ground 
by special capacitors, to be honest, sometimes I just switch ground off 
without using a capacitor. I don't like gates, better reduce the level 
in passages were you don't play the guitar when you do the mixing. I 
don't like to cut away all the noise in those passages, but ... more 
info is needed, e.g. a link to a sample if you can't describe the noise. 
Eliminating noise for passages were you play the guitar IMO is nearly 
impossible without damaging the guitars signal too.

Ralf