How do you guys deal with this clicking artifact? Especially noticeable on unmixed bass stems and “other”. It’s pretty much always there. How is this a usable product??
(Tried on many sources, different hardware. Ticking artifacts remain.)
I’m not a Spectrlayers guru by any means, and there’s not much info in your post about what module you’re using, or what version of of the product you’re using so that info might be helpful.
In my experience I have not heard clicking etc after using any of the modules.,
Thanks Steve. It’s the “unmix song” module. (Listen to the bass stem after unmixing and it always has rapid high frequency clicking.)
If you would like someone to try to replicate the problem it would be best to post the info requested above.
and if it’s the Pro or a slimmed down derivitive
SL10,11,12 etc… Always been a problem at work. (I’m not there now so don’t have exact version number, but they did upgrade to v12 and it didn’t change anything.)
Mismatch of clocks… (?)
Thanks, but no. It’s only in the resultant stem when soloed. It’s faint, but it’s there.
Does it show in the spectrogram or is it just audible? Screenshot?
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I don’t find too much clicking with unmixed bass, it really does depend upon the sources in my tests
SLP is an incredible product for manually editing the spectrogram. SLP is not specifically an unmixing of music tool. I say it all the time: unmix modules deliver a starting point at this time; even for dialogue/ interview/ human talking. Amazing results can be achieved for location audio, live music adjustments and vocal separation to name a few.
The music unmixing is a work in progress. I’ve expressed my doubts that stem solo will not be possible without some kind of regeneration functionality.
All said, my life in audio post is waaaaaaaaaaaaay better with SpectraLayers than without it.
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further, how about these modern pop songs with hundreds of tracks? what do we expect SLP or any unmixing software to deliver for those? I’m pretty sure that, currently, most users don’t have an interest in that sort of modern pop music, yet still that could be a question posed in this unmixing regard. I’d venture to say most of us are attempting to unmix personal or popular music from the past.
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In what application are you monitoring/listening to the artifacts? SpectraLayers? Or exported from SL and listening in another application?
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touche, I have not actually done this with music
I have exported a lot of audio (Export Mixdown) from SLP after editing and then place into SAW Studio (DAW) and I have not had any “clicking” (these aren’t bass guitar stems by any stretch of the imagination; it is location audio)
Last week I did have an anomaly in SLP which I could not determine from where it came. It was an early job for me, so I may have easily made a mistake. There were essentially the sound of what sounded like a partly closed hihat that appeared nowhere else in that job in the middle of speech…I couldn’t track it down…this was on a lavalier recording using unmix noisy speech. The recording was on a farm, so maybe a farm sound…but I could not track it down. It wasn’t in my original job in the DAW, the hihat sound was only in the SLP…just sayin…
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I tested a few previously exported unmixed bass tracks, each of which had audible non-bass sounds at 5kHz. Is that the frequency you are hearing?
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yeah. But it’s a little more broad band than that, but that’s the ballpark. and it sounds like rapid clicking