Removing of "scratch sound" from guitar recording?

[Macke/Crystal Light]

Hi,

Is there any tricks available to remove "high freq scratch, gliss sound" from a guitar recording? I have tried to EQ it away, but did not succeed.

Any tips?

Edit: Sound clip (I think I found the worst part of the album....) https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37621803/noiceguitar.mp3

 

[The-Zeronaut]

i´ve seen some people doing it with izotope RX i think it was

 

[Sethis]

The only way to fix it that comes to mind would be recording it more carefully. Try to add some kind of lubricant on your strings.

 

[Skinny Viking]

de-esser on the guitar track maybe

may not totally remove it but might make it far less noticeable in context

 

[Uros]

copy the track, and just flip the phase on that copy. removed. easy peasy

 

[B36arin]

i´ve seen some people doing it with izotope RX i think it was

I've done it with RX, RX is an AMAZING piece of software.

 

[rfahey86]

copy the track, and just flip the phase on that copy. removed. easy peasy

Wouldn't that cause silence?

 

[arv_foh]

Izotope RX will do the job

 

[everybody's x]

Wouldn't that cause silence?

i'm sure he meant the the offending part

Personally if it cant be retracked, surgical removal and stretch

 

[RedDog]

Clips?

 

[Uros]

^^Actually, I was joking.

On a more serious note, the only thing that I can think off (aside from pulling out the scratchiness by using surgical narrow cuts) would be to try chaining an extreme low pass filter (something at like 4-5 kHz) with hi shelf/peak filter, which would be used to boost frequencies beyond the LP's cut off point, in order to compensate for the loss of hi freq content.
But the OP should really post a clip which shows the problem, because atm we all are just theorizing on the subject, rather than solving it.

 

[Macke/Crystal Light]

Hi again,

thanks for the tips so far. Ofcourse I should have added a clip...but better late than never. Updated with clip in first post.

 

[colonel kurtz]

haven't used that izotope rx before, but the de-esser trick that was mentioned can definitely help to reduce string squeal

i also have heard of people doing what uros mentioned - copy the track, bandpass it so that you only hear the squeaking, then flip the phase. this should cancel out most of the noise, but seems like it might result in some sort of weird artifacts and the such

in the end, the best thing to do is to play the part without the string noise in the first place...

 

[bryan_kilco]

Yeah that's pretty bad.

I'd personally retrack if possible.

 

[mva801]

That usually comes down to a bit of lazy technique. You'll obviously have a bit of that no matter what, but I usually have no problems just automating it down a little in volume. If it was that bad, I would have had them try again.

 

[Nuno Filipe]

the worse shit to me it´s the noise that comes from changing from a chord to another. In those cases I edit to the hell and back.

 

[Macke/Crystal Light]

Thanks for the tips everyone!

 

[JasinElric]

I actually often have the opposite of this problem. I wind up making so many mid-range cuts I wind up losing my pick attack.