Sound vibrations which travel through your guitar into its body will not be able to travel out through the air in the soundhole, meaning your guitar will be much quieter.īass frequencies travel through walls and floors far more easily than higher frequencies so dampening these will make a big difference. Use A Feedback Dampenerįeedback dampeners are small rubber circles that fit into the soundhole covering it completely.įeedback dampeners are a very effective way of quietening acoustic guitars because they do a great job of deadening the deeper bass soundwaves. just remember to take them out before you go and perform your next gig! 2. The more fabric you use the greater the dampening effect will be. Here’s a screenshot of the first, most prominent fret squeak I hear in the recording, just after five seconds in.By filling the soundhole you reduce the space that the soundwaves have to resonate in and the soft fabrics you put inside will also dampen a lot of the soundwaves as they hit it.įilling the soundhole is easy, just take a couple of t-shirts, tea towels or any soft fabrics you can find and carefully stuff them in there. This is great for me because three of my biggest headaches happen to be amp noise, fret shrieks, and pick scrapes-and Guitar De-noise has parameters to tackle each one. Guitar De-noise offers tools for addressing common-if-unintentional noises caused by physical contact with the guitar. Guitar De-noise for fret squeaksĪs I mentioned earlier, there are a few stand-out fret squeaks in this take that I want to attenuate a bit, while still maintaining their presence enough for the recording to convey that a human being produced the sound.įor that, it’s time to break out one of RX 8’s new toys: Guitar De-noise. Selection made, I clicked “Learn” in the Voice De-noise interface and adjusted the EQ curve the module produced to preserve the crisp highs, while still managing the mids and containing the thumping lows. This helps address ambient frequencies that clash with the body of the guitar, but leaves high-end frequencies alone for a bright attack, and low-end frequencies alone for rich, “vocal” fullness. I grabbed a wide portion of midrange for Voice De-noise to analyze. My intent is to reduce room noise without compromising any of the frequencies that the recording needs to remain crisp, full, and intelligible. The screenshot above shows the selection I made in the Spectrogram display with the horizontal selector, and the noise-reduction profile Voice De-noise provided after analyzing the file using its Learn function.
Fun fact: I recorded this take with the onboard microphone of my Spire Studio! Let’s listen to a snippet from a musical idea I’ve been working on recently. With recording at home becoming not only more convenient, but more necessary, it’s good to know that tools exist to help isolate a guitar performance in a common, everyday-noise-plagued environment-tools like RX. Fixing common issues in a solo acoustic guitar performance Room sounds in at-home recording We’re just trying to refine them to sound cleaner without losing that human element. To be clear, we’re not trying to completely suck the life out of these guitar recordings.
Acoustic: a solo acoustic guitar performance with room noise and fret squeaks.With three audio examples, we’ll examine multiple contexts of guitar recordings, and appropriate methods for optimizing each one. In this article, I’ll show you some tricks I use as a guitarist myself to rescue acoustic and electric guitar recordings with distracting artifacts like fret squeaks, string slaps, amp noise, and other things I could do without in my life. Thankfully, iZotope RX audio repair suite has got our backs. But like anything worth loving, it’ll make you want to pull your hair out sometimes-and if you’re anything like me, that applies to practicing, recording, producing, and mixing guitar. Anywhere in the world, acoustic or electric, guitar is a hugely prolific and well-loved instrument.
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