anti distorter

[mick thompson]

is there such a plugin or tool that can remove distortion / gain from a guitar recording to make it less gainy without loosing quality, tone, and volume?

i have no need for a tool like this but i have never heard of something like that before.

 

[mick thompson]

any topic takers?

 

[if6was9]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no- you can't remove a specific part of an audio file like that. this kinda distortion is harmonics, pretty complicated ones, I can't see how they could do it anyways. we can hear something and say it needs less gain, a computer can't see things that easily

 

[MartijnPaauwe]

I keep a simple rule as my experience as a sound engineer and something i always say too musicians when they play live/record.

"Shit comes in, shit comes out" Nothing you can change about it. Well you can switch drumsamples nowadays, but when a guitartrack is recorded shitty (and no DI is present) nothing in the world will change the outcome. Maybe you can try too make it sound less shitty, but you can not get another sound out of it. Some with bass, vocals, crappy cymbals, drums with heads that are from the Deep Purple "Machine Head" era (and lots of gaffa tape!) i think the message is clear

 

[mick thompson]

theres nothing that can cancel it out? - like two audio signals at the same freq at the same wavelenght and the same distance from eachother can cancel eachother out and produce no sound.

im just wondering - i have no need for the thing - i've just never heard of anything like it before

 

[Fifth_Horseman]

Hey, the next Melodyne version will probably give you the ability to extract a clean DI from a distorted guitar track!

Well who knows, they can already separate notes from a chord, so...