Application rejected from hiss - Mic self-noise? SM7B
Hi there, my submission was rejected due to hiss but my noise floor is well within parameters and normalized to -3. In the second rejection it was mentioned it is likely due to my mic self-noise.
Could I get an opinion on this? Is the inherent self noise on the sm7b just not good enough for Voicebunny or is there a way I can work my equipment or daw to make it pass? I've been looking at the rode ntg5 but don't want to buy it yet if I don't have to.
Mic:SM7B + Cloudlifter
Interface: TC Helicon GoXLR
DAW:Audition+RX7 Standard
Cables and recording space not a problem
File that was rejected https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HLCFix373-wJ7APdQh6qKJyAh0GgSbH9/view?usp=sharing
Thanks in advance for the help! I can't wait to get things working up to par.
Cheers
Zack
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Hi Zack,
Thank you for reaching out.
You have a great read and it seems like a good recording, the issue is still present tho.
How about you try to apply a mild noise reduction plugin to see if that helps us to eliminate that hiss noise from the recording?
Give that a try and send us a new file to evaluate
Hi there Johnatan! Thanks for the feedback.
This recording actually is after running the spectral noise reduction plugin with RX7 and an FFT filter with some dynamics processing in adobe audition, apparently the hiss is still present on top of my words, though I've cleaned it out very nicely between words with no gating. I personally only hear it by turning my volume up to max on my laptop. I don't hear it on my headphones.
I could be more heavy-handed with the filters I suppose. Aside from that, I've done everything I know how to do here, do you have any more specific suggestions of what I can do?
Thanks for the help so far!
Hi, Johnatan, I wasn't able to get a much better result without introducing artifacts or other distortion into the recording. It's hard to imagine such a high-profile mic as the SM7B not being suitable to this kind of work, so I'm sure there's just a tech mistake I'm making somewhere.
This is the raw file, undoctored in any way.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LIRRNN4MYLzteB9gr395DwTAWizqMq3v/view?usp=sharing
Could I request that yourself or one of your experts take a moment to see if this file can be processed to work? If it can, you can just tell me what you did and I can use that setting from now on.
I'm new to audio engineering but I'm very tech savvy, so if someone can take just a bit of time to help me out with this I know I can become a valuable member of your roster. I'm very committed to making this work.
Thanks in advance!
Zack
Hi Zack,
Thank you for all of your work and willingness to make it work, we believe that you could be a great Pro in our platform.
We took your file and did small editing to it, here the result:
https://we.tl/t-ulMJovb7XB
We used Logic Pro and used a stock plugin:
Most DAWs have its own noise gate/noise reduction plugin, and it seems that only by applying it or tweaking it a bit you could achieve the same results.
Let us know if this is helpful to you, or if there's something else we can do to help you.
Looking forward to your reply
Hi Johnatan
This is great, thanks for the screencap and the kind words. I'll work with this for a day or two to really get the hang of these plugins, and then I'll put up another file and see what you think!
Cheers
Zack
It's been a pleasure, Zack.
I hope this helps you, based on our conversation, I'm confident you'll get a hang of it pretty soon.
I'll be waiting for your new audio!