landbeforetimelover:
I applied a few effects to your mo3.wav recording. Here's what I came up with after:
1) Noise reduction by copying noise to clipboard and reducing it throughout the entire recording by 50%
2) A noise gate with a slow attack and decay, removing all noise in any parts where you are not singing
3) An equalizer to reduce the boomy sound due to being too close to the microphone (which I know I instructed you to do).
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...4177CA9339DD93AI think it is certainly better; on of the best results so far. I'm still trying to figure out why where is such a high level of noise in the recordings...I don't mean the traffic going by and whatnot. I mean the persistant *hissing*. I get that when I'm recording on my laptop, which makes me think your sound card is the problem there.
As for what we want to do now...If you want to try again, turn the gain up *slightly* (maybe 20%) and sing just a a little bit further away from your microphone. Then maybe we can get a good balance between boominess and background noise. If you don't want to try again, I can use this one and similar effects applied to other recordings.
It seems to me that reducing the hissing noise is going to basically be an impossible task unless you replace your sound card (which of course I don't expect you to do). That being said, I don't think I can ask you for much more; we've tried everything that I can think of, short of a rather complicated theoretical techinique involving multiple microphones...I don't think it would honestly help that much and it would a pain, so I won't even go there.
I'm sorry if I sound overly picky. I just know this is a really quiet song and every little imperfection in the recordings will stick out like a sore thumb.