Recording noise reduction

[EmergencyRoom]

A reasonably simple question. I'm recoding guitar with a solid state amp, a shure 57 mic. I keep getting finger on string noise that nearly drowns out the actual sounds i'm recording. Any idea how i can do this? I have a boss gt8 and a boss eq if eaither of those would help. I'm recording to a digital 8 track.

[Seafroggys]

is it coming through the amp or is it from the guitar itself?

If its the former, then there's nothing you can do, just find a better guitarist ;)

If its the latter, try different mic placements as well as moving the guitarist.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

IT shouldn't be so intrusive... Less gain maybe?



Also putting on new strings sovles 90% of guitarist problems ;)

[EmergencyRoom]

better guitarist huh:p

Thanks guys for the help tho.

Its coming through the amp. I've tried different mic placements, different ways of moving my fingers gently from strings etc to no avail. I have brand new strings on my guitars and it even happenes on a clean sound. I will give my right arm for a solution to this. I know theres gotta be someone on here who can help me. How do they manage it in studios?

[Moseph]

better guitarist huh:p

Thanks guys for the help tho.

Its coming through the amp. I've tried different mic placements, different ways of moving my fingers gently from strings etc to no avail. I have brand new strings on my guitars and it even happenes on a clean sound. I will give my right arm for a solution to this. I know theres gotta be someone on here who can help me. How do they manage it in studios?

Can you post a sound clip? I bet string polish on the strings and some baby oil on your fingers will help. That'll soften up the contact between finger tip and the guitar string.

However, if you don't here if from the guitar itself (you should be able to), there might be something more sinister causing it. Hopefully it's just a matter of practice and getting clean finger movements, but it could technical. A sound clip would help a little bit.

[EmergencyRoom]

Can you post a sound clip? I bet string polish on the strings and some baby oil on your fingers will help. That'll soften up the contact between finger tip and the guitar string.

However, if you don't here if from the guitar itself (you should be able to), there might be something more sinister causing it. Hopefully it's just a matter of practice and getting clean finger movements, but it could technical. A sound clip would help a little bit.


Sorry i cant post a soundclip because of comp problems. i might try the string polish idea though. I'll have a go at that and repost how it went. thanks:thumb:

You can hear the string noise from the guitar but its being picked up and amplified by the amp rather than the mic. It happens even when i record directly from equipment to 8 track. Its impossible to play it any more cleanly because i spent hours upon hours trying different configurations of removing fingers from strings. It doesn't happen if i remove them slowly and carefully but i can't afford to do that when i'm playing anything with a little speed.

Any other suggestions are welcome though.

[Aus_rock_god]

Try using Finger Ease on your strings to reduce the string talk. Practice playing like that a few times first, because it feels weird for a while.

I only use finger ease for recordings, because I like to feel the winds of my strings (hey, it feels sexy) and no-one can hear the string talk over the pounding drums and high gain distortion live anyway.

In the studio though, freaky sh!t like that happens.

[EmergencyRoom]

Try using Finger Ease on your strings to reduce the string talk. Practice playing like that a few times first, because it feels weird for a while.

I only use finger ease for recordings, because I like to feel the winds of my strings (hey, it feels sexy) and no-one can hear the string talk over the pounding drums and high gain distortion live anyway.

In the studio though, freaky sh!t like that happens.

Thanks much. I'll get a hold of some of that:thumb:

[cadencethefire]

put a noise gate as a preamp on your guitar and turn down the gain to about 60% or just after the pitch harmonics ring without trouble. You don't need that much gain really. If you're still having trouble check to see if you've got the compressor enabled on your gt8, i think it's on as a standard... When you have a compressor on as a pre or an fx loop your guitar will pick up everything, even headphones through the pickups, i have a feeling that's your problem