Mic Pops

Hi,
I took a recording of a live music perfomance, originally recorded on DAT and downloaded onto logic. It's a very good recording, but there are some microphone pops where the singer is accentuating his 'Ps'. Does anyone have any neat tricks that would help to reduce or eliminate these pops from the recording? It could be really helpful.
Thanks,
terry

Hi Terry,
One other suggestion I'll add in tandem with Yoink's, is by automating a low cut filter.
Keep in mind, if it is a stereo recording, you're way more limited than if you had the vocal track separated.
Because you said you took it from a DAT, which is a stereo recording device, I'll assume that this is indeed the case.
Try automating a low cut filter. leave the filter set so that all frequencies come through. Then in automation, move the filter's slider up to a range where the low end is diminished. This will take the "Plosive" out of the vocal. usually somewhere around, or above 200 to 250 Hz will do the trick. I would highly suggest doing these automation moves with your mouse, with automation view enabled, so you can get it very precise.
Keep in mind though, that the whole track will suffer from this filtering, so by using automation, you can really hone in on it only triggering on that millisecond or so that the plosive happened, and hope that it goes by so quickly, that it's not noticed in the overall sound.
I recommend automating the filter frequency itself, over simply bypassing the plug-in with automation, because bypassing that type of plug-in, with the filter engaged, will cause "pops" when turned on and off. Surgical automation of the filter frequency level, will eliminate that.

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