recording wrecked by what??

[GotZillaProd]

Hi everybody, I have recorded a choir, live in a church - using Studio one 5.5.0, a presonus revelator interface, two ake condesator mics - everything was fine during all rehearsals, but the actual recording is totaly wrecked. I do not understand what happend, as I believe I have not changed any setting after rehearsal. I'm sure You pros listen to the example and can tell in seconds what happend. Im quite sure the recording is wasted - but if there are any miracle tips how to repair it I would be extrelmly grateful!!

Recording Problems Example.wav

 

[John Vere]

That could be from a number of factors.
It sounds like RF interference.
A room full of Cell phones? Bluetooth, air conditioning?

But what seems weird is that it only seems to happen when the organ plays? Was the organ connected directly to your audio interface? It’s sort of way too loud anyway.

If it was a laptop Ive had that due to using the power supply and ground issues. The RF was getting into the USB system. Using the battery or a ground lift usually works.

Another thing comes to mind is the mikes were probably needing better voltage for the phantom power. If your interface is bus powered this is a common issue. There might not be enough juice.

Did you record it multi track?

It’s not clear what a Presonus Revelator is? There's 3 items, which one is yours. One of them is not even listed with Presonus. Only available trough Best Buy? And you must have meant AKG mikes.

 

[SwitchBack]

Maybe the organ's air pump motor was sparking? That would insert a lot of noise into the mains, which is extra bad when you use the same outlet for the recording gear. As John already noticed the noise seems to modulate with the organ's volume, not with the level from the choir.

 

[John Vere]

What might help is to have more details about how you were set up. Like what exactly was the interface. What type of computer, mixer’s etc. And a little more detail about what mikes were used. Balanced XLR cables?

 

[noisecoalition]

Hi everybody, I have recorded a choir, live in a church - using Studio one 5.5.0, a presonus revelator interface, two ake condesator mics - everything was fine during all rehearsals, but the actual recording is totaly wrecked. I do not understand what happend, as I believe I have not changed any setting after rehearsal. I'm sure You pros listen to the example and can tell in seconds what happend. Im quite sure the recording is wasted - but if there are any miracle tips how to repair it I would be extrelmly grateful!!

Recording Problems Example.wav

I had something similar happen a couple days ago on Studio One 7. I was recording a piano and it was super glitchy, similar to your recording. I’ve never had this happen before after years and years of recording. After restarting my system I was able to record normally. I thought it was a sample rate issue but I checked and verified that everything was at the correct sample rate. Very strange.

Here’s one of the glitchy files:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g1bz...ey=rbh8f4l1m6a9icn3z0cdp91qj&st=75kzt2y0&dl=0

 

[TheBassBagwhan]

Sounds like an artefact coming through the power grid. Likely, something not operating during rehearsals but required for services, like a hard-of-hearing loop or security cameras (could be a zillion things not turned on until the public have access) has trashed your power feed. It's bad luck, more than anything. Plugins to remove this noise might be marginally successful, but you'll waste a lot of time getting less than average results.
You're better off asking for a fresh, recording only performance. You might be surprised at how keen people will be to perform again.

 

[John Vere]

Seems like we are talking to the wind.

 

[chichogp]

Seems like we are talking to the wind.

I've seen this shit a lot lately on reddit, the facebook group and even this forum. Someone would ask a question and then disappear after people answer, not even a thank you. There's a guy in here who even deleted all of their original posts so now it's impossible for anyone to benefit from the issue being solved on the thread because the main post is gone. I have no idea where this behavior comes from but personally I find it selfish, rude and infuriating.

 

[GotZillaProd]

Sorry for my late reply - I was off grid for the holidays - thanks a lot for all your help and effort - for the next recording I will probably stay on battery - and I've already checked prices of the tascam recorder - luckily I did record the whole performance additionaly with a external recorder and my go pro - the sample I showed you was the "near field" recording - I will try some of the filter tricks and if useful report back - on the other hand Im with thebassbaghwan - I'm not keen on wasting hours and only get unsatisfactory results. As You all think that its really "recorded" and not something that could easily be removed.

 

[John Vere]

Thanks for the update. Possibly what you can do is dump all the recordings from all your devices into a project and sync them up. You might be able to mix them together to create a decent audio output.
Example heavy processing of the noisy track and blend in the other two to fill in the sonic weirdness that it might cause.
I have used this technique before with multiple camera shoots were each camera sounded terrible on its own but combined together it sounded much better.

 

[GotZillaProd]

thanks again - the original plan was to have the two AKG mics (P170 condenser, interface is a revelator IO24 ) as the main source and combine it with the zoom H1 as atmospheric background (it was placed high up in the back), now i used camera and zoom as the main sound and added the wrecked track. your suggegstions, that the organ triggered the distortions here brought me to idea to use a "karaoke" software "Moises" to seperate the organ from the choir, this worked surprisingly well. altogether it is still not a good result - but we can at least use it. thanks again!
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