In this video I explain what plosives are and how to prevent them, as well as demonstrate how to remove plosives from vocal recordings in Logic Pro X. SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ON PATREON: / musictechhelpguy See more at CARNEYMEDIAGROUP.COM
So, Mr. Tech Maestro....here's something to see if you can help me fix. Back in 1965, I led an extremely popular band. We did 50% covers and 50% of were songs I penned. We were working on a deal with Chess Records and they wanted to hear a demo. I knew a very bright young guy in our class who assured me he could record the band in his home (BTW he went on record people like Madonna...). So we set up the band in the house and they were all spread throughout the home in different rooms. My friend had "borrowed" a mixing board from the high school that was basically a board used to record an orchestra. The recordings sound clear and "dated" which some music supervisors want...the only problem is when he recorded the band, he over pushed the GAIN and a various times during the playback, the tracks get really boomy and distorted. I don't mind going thru the tracks to fix them section by section.... but what would I do to get rid of the BOOMY-ness and Distorted sections. If I can clean those up I can tweak the cleaned-up tracks and submit them to my clients, who REALLY prefer my originals to the covers we did.... Your thoughts? Chet Nichols chet-at-a-OHH-EL-dot-com
This tip is easy and PUUURFECT. Had a track I recorded back in 1967 with a Sony Stereo suitcase recorder and a Sony Stereo mic (I still have it) and passed it through Super Reverb to the recorder. Is is actually a great sounding track and a music supervisor wants to use it in a movie, but there were three PLOSIVES that wrecked it. I used this technique, beefed up the track, remixed it and mastered it and it sounds great. The Music Supervisor is VERY happy. Very simple solution just using what Logic has available. I took about :20 minutes....
Great trick, thank you ! In the example, I also hear a little problem in the "THe (perfect love)", I don't know if it could be processed the same way. Personally, I have problems with "SL" (as in "slow" for instance). Once the vocals are compressed and "in your face" it can easily give a nasty spitting impression.
thanks for posting, seems like a good system. i guess i could move all the track effects to the sum track and keep the plosive original without efx. thanks for taking the time to make the video. been wreckin my mind trying to figure out how to help this plosive podcast recording.
Thanks so much for this amazing, amazing series of Logic Pro X tutorials. The package is enormous and your information is so helpful! It has saved us hours of hard slog. Cheers Mate from Glenn & Dave.
Tried to do it on my own, had to come back to re-watch and realize that I had forgotten to repeat the part at 4:30-4:50 or so - where you talk about having X-fade Drag on, and then dragging original material slightly on top of the bounce-in-place EQ-is-in -version to create the crossfades. thanks!
Great little tip!. Simple and intuitive. Thank you for sharing :) I am currently working on a short BIO video and by removing these nastly plosives it gives the video a much more professional sounding voice-over. The best, FLX at FLX Music
Given that your video (which was, by the way, precisely what I was looking for so thank you!) and Logic Pro X are almost four years old at this point; are there newer methods that can produce the same (or better!) results? For my own plosives, I can't seem to find a good balance between removing the low-end rumble and maintaining rich sound (pun intentded😆)
@@EM-de7ds 3 options. Neither of them great. But they can work, if it's not too extreme. #1. Go into the EQ, pick the lowest Frequency (It's Red in mine-Far Left) and move it to 80-100. You'll want to Narrow the band (The red area extending on either side of the Dot) so the Curve (at the bottom) is as Vertical as possible. It's an imprecise art. #2. Go into Track Automation (Click. A on your keyboard. This is a goldmine for micro-editing lots of things) and do an extreme dip in the volume where the Noise appears. Play around with how wide you want the volume to dip and how deep. No clean formula. #3. Go into FLEX PITCH and fiddle around with the Volume levels there. It won't always let you change Audio Recordings and it's very hard to be precise. Worst of the 3 options. But it's something. I had a miserable time finding any Post-Recording Options online. If anyone knows better, they're not talking about it. Cheers.
Hello! Thank you for this! I'm having an issue--when it's time to bounce the selected section it doesn't appear underneath the track like it does in your video. Could you help me with that step? Thank you!!!
This does not work for me. I have the most recent LPX and I assume something changed from the time this video was made and today. When I Bounce In Place, the region gets created as a stereo track, so it's useless. :( This trick looks like it was amazing back whenever this video was made though.
thanks but when i do exactly what you say, after the bounce the new track portion becomes a stereo track instead mono, what am I doing wrong pease? thanks for your answer
Fina Producciones once you bounce in place the section with the plosives AFTER applying the EQ, that audio section will bounce into a new audio track with the EQ permanently applied into it, so there's no need of keeping an EQ plugin on to prevent the plosives anymore :)
Why is it stupid? This is literally the same way people did it for YEARS before plosive removal plug-ins were a thing. Yeah, sure you can go buy a plug-in that removes plosives, but that costs money. If you don't have restoration plug-ins and you don't want to spend money, what other way is there to do it? The 'plosive' itself is actually always going to be there, you can simply mask it by cutting the lows for just a split second. You can do it with automation too, but that takes the same amount of time. So how is it stupid again? I would argue it has helped a lot of people, if you happen to read the years worth of comments on the video.
only half of this was helpful. there is a far easier way to do this man.... select the segment with marquee, right click and select "selection based processing". you can apply plug-ins to just that area and process it right there on the spot and it will adjust the wavelength right there in the take
