Keep Noise to a Minimum
21/04/09 05:00 Filed in:
Noise Elimination
Keeping Noise to a Minimum
The most obvious advantage a professional studio has over your home
studio is a near silent environment. When recording anything using
a microphone very little if any sound other than what is being
recorded finds it’s way into the signal. Your environment likely
won’t have this advantage. So the first way you can deal with noise
is by using as few microphones as possible, and when you do try to
reduce outside noise as much as possible. Guitars, Bass guitar, and
keyboards can all be recorded direct rather than using a microphone
on a speaker cabinet.
Another good way to reduce noise is to use only balanced
connections. Balanced connections use a cleaner higher voltage
signal. Many guitar and bass amplifiers have direct recording
outputs. Other devices like Line 6 pods allow you to custom tailor
your guitar sound including speaker cabinet simulation. If you are
using drum machine you may be able to forgo using microphones for
everything except vocals.
If you are going to use a microphone on a guitar cabinet, make it’s
a dynamic mic and record the cabinet at high volume. This will
prevent other sounds from getting into the signal. There is no way
around using a few microphones to record a drum kit. You can limit
the effect of the noise by using noise gates on all the drums mics
except for the overheads.
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