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Originally Posted by engmix  i recently was mixing a record where there was a couple of tracks with a fair bit of noise. i decided to clean it up out of a knee jerk reaction, and found after the fact, that the mix lost some character. i put the noise back in, and bingo. |
When you clean up noise, you are also cutting out a lot of the actual musical content. Most notably, air. I've found that no matter how good a noise reduction plug is, it always takes some of the realism away with it. I only use it if I've cranked the pres on a noisy ribbon for example and the noise gets in the way, and I'll only cut it enough to push it back to where it doesn't "stick out."