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Originally Posted by arf  Not so! Algorithmix ReNOVAtor, CEDAR Retouch, and other "frequency domain editing" apps can isolate and replace the squeaks with sound re-synthesized from adjacent sound making the removal seemless and invisible. I do it all the time with in the blink of an eye with Algorithmix. Don't go crazy, though, the squeaks are part of the instrument. I only remove the ones that hurt. ReNOVAtor is now available for ProTools. |
Great Advice with effective albeit pricey tools. Sometimes Sonic NoNoise can work in this situation as well.
(Oooh I see they just released ReNOVAtor for Mac OS X ! Very tempting, thanks for the tip Alan.)
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Originally Posted by Charles Dye Actually, I use the Waves DeEsser for this all the time. It works great. |
Also good advice... try the Ren DeEsser too.
You can kick it old school, and just manually reduce the ones that really jump up and bite the ear. I've fixed a zillion of these over the years, one at a time, using an Audiosuite plug-in EQ notch in PT, only on the offending squeaks, and their reverb tails. An analyzer can help you find the offend freq and its' harmonics. Create a pretty tight notch and reduce it a few dB. Just don't overdo it and punch holes in the mix.
In a given song maybe there'll only be a few of these to fix, same situation with DeEssing. No need to overdo it with a bunch of
automatic processing.
However, once in a while you get a song where the squeaks are really bad throughout the whole song, interfering with the vocal. Then it's time to pull out the industrial strength automatic tools & program length notches. Or a combination of all the techniques.
Also time to consider remixing or perhaps even recutting the song.
JT