Help with buzzing bass track

[Rim]

The project I’m currently working on is my first attempt to record and mix a CD. Unfortunately, I was very clueless and I’m now stuck with bass tracks on most of the songs that buzzes and it’s unintentional. I have put a 10 second snippet of it at [url=ftp://wingshadows.com/pub/]ftp://wingshadows.com/pub[/url] . The file is name is BuzzingBass.wav. It's a 24/44.1 WAV file and 1.25 MB in size. I wasn’t sure if converting it to MP3 would make it harder to hear the problem clearly. I really didn’t pay close attention and didn’t know what I was doing anyway. We recorded to a Yamaha MD8 and then I downloaded it to my computer using Digi001 (yeah, I know NOW that’s not the best way to do it). I think it was a Fender bass with active pickups and he had some rack equipment (compressor I think) in his rig. Anyway, I know I didn’t do a good job in recording it in the first place, but now what do I do? Retracking is not an option, unfortunately. Now that I think about it and know more about recording and stuff, chances are the bass player had his attack time set too fast on his compressor. What I’ve tried that works so far is by EQing it to reduce at 200 Hz with a very narrow bandwidth. It helps a little but I still can’t get it to sound smooth. So, what would you folks do with it? Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Rif

[Dwarf]

Can you hear that buzz when it's mixed in with music? Maybe I'm not listening for the right thing but that doesn't sound too bad to me, certainly nothing worth retracking the bass over. Just MHO. -- Rob

[not Cereal]

band pass filter, then sansamp. oh, and make friends with a limiter. works for me.

[Rim]

[quote]Originally posted by Dwarf: [b]Can you hear that buzz when it's mixed in with music? Maybe I'm not listening for the right thing but that doesn't sound too bad to me, certainly nothing worth retracking the bass over. Just MHO. -- Rob[/b][/quote]Yeah, on quiet parts of the songs where you only hear drums and bass, I can hear it buzzing along. Hmmm, maybe I've heard it for so long I'm more tuned to it than my audience would be. Thanks for the input.

[Rim]

[quote]Originally posted by coaster: [b]band pass filter, then sansamp. oh, and make friends with a limiter. works for me.[/b][/quote]Coaster, Do you mean to output a band (80-100MHz?) of the track to SansAmp and mix it back in? Does it matter I only have the regular SansAmp and not a Bass SansAmp? Interesting idea. I can also try it with my POD 2.0. I don't see how a limiter would with the buzzing though. Thanks for the tips.

[Uh Clem]

I don't hear any problem with that in terms of buzzing. You may be getting too anal. I heard more buzzing that that on the unmixed bass parts for SD's Aja? Guacho? - one of those. Guitars make little noises sometimes - that's what distinguishes them from SAMPLERS! Like the tag says "small blemishes enhance the natural beauty of the product".

[jtvrdy]

for remove this type of noise you can use the Noise reduction from Sonic Foundry,capture a noiseprint(only this "zzzzzz"),put mode 3,-35dB of reduction ,others parametres less as default,and voila no noise. :p

[Rim]

OK, thanks all. I'll try some of the suggestions but won't lose sleep over it. Maybe I am getting too critical.

[not Cereal]

i just had to deal with a buzzy bass track, thats why i gave the combo i did: i ran it through a band pass filter, set to reject around 1.2k to 6k or so, i cant remeber exactly. thats where most of the buzzing was on my track. then i ran the track through L1, and THEN through a sansamp, and THEN through an L1 again. it actually started to sound like a bass!! i bet a million $ that my track was in worse shape than yours, it was a live recording and the performer's equipment was sending me a bad signal. huge blobs of distorted crap. now it sounds very korn-esque, or even queensryche-esque. pretty good. it was the sansamp that made it work. a normal sansamp will work fine.

[Rim]

[quote]Originally posted by coaster: [b]i just had to deal with a buzzy bass track, thats why i gave the combo i did: i ran it through a band pass filter, set to reject around 1.2k to 6k or so, i cant remeber exactly. thats where most of the buzzing was on my track. then i ran the track through L1, and THEN through a sansamp, and THEN through an L1 again. it actually started to sound like a bass!! [/b][/quote]:idea: I think I get it now. I'm filtering out the range of the buzzing and then running it through SansAmp to recover some of the range back (or something like that). The limiter gives a hotter signal. Thanks, Coaster!