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I transferred some old audio from cassette tapes from 15 years ago, and now I place them in Logic Pro. I am new to Logic Pro and I know there's a way to clean up the noise in the background and make the audio clearer. How do it?
Is there a simple way of removing hums and background noises in Logic Pro. If you could give me step-by-step how to do it I would appreciate it very much. Thank you.
Once, again, thanks, I must be the densest person in the world because this is what I come up with and it's not the same as you showed. I don't think it's even on this logic pro. Maybe the next step I'll get there.
No, that's the correct screen. It's just the screenshot I sent have different plug-ins inserted on the tracks. If you just click where I've indicated on the diagram below, you'll get a list of plugins you can insert. If you control+click you should also get the Lagacy option in that list.
You can also click or control+click right under where it says Chan EQ on your screenshot to add an additional plug-in to that track.
dmfett wrote: (...) Also, I could not find the preset called hum killer. (...)
As octopi already pointed you to the hidden Legacy PlugIn Section, I'll continue with the presets of the Channel EQ. Insert the Channel EQ, then open the controls by double clicking on the just inserted slot, if not aleady opened automatically. You can access the presets like I've shown in the picture below. This works with any plugin in Logic.
One more word about the legacy plugins. If you still can't find the legacy plugins after successfully CNTR+clicking the audio insert slot, you may (or may not) need to download the additional legacy library in the Soundlibrary Manager.
You can try Logic's old Legacy plugin "Denoiser" by contol+Click on the audio insert, then look for Legacy in the list.
You can also try to reduce humming with a steep Channel EQ setting. There is a Preset called Hum Killer and others in the EQ Tools section of the Plugin.
But honestly, I usually use third-party plugins for that, like iZotope RX (Elements is sufficient) or Waves Restrauration Bundle. Other people use Adobe Tools...
How ever, it's not that easy to do, especially without creating artefacts. You can find many videos about that in the internet.
I have a bachelor of music degree with many years of teaching music education and understand how to operate manual recording devices, but logic pro is in a whole different world. I just started using it the other day and I will try to do what you said I'm not buying plug-ins because I don't even know how to use the current plug-ins that are within the unit itself. It seems as though logic pro is way more difficult than Final Cut Pro. In any case thanks for your help. I'll see if I can figure out how to do what you said if not be prepared in a few hours or maybe a day I will be asking for additional help... I don't have to have a perfect project just take a little bit of the old fashion hum out and make it more easy to the ears. Maybe someday I'll buy a plug-in but not anytime soon.
My schedule finally allows me to check out your suggestion and unfortunately, when I control click on my audio file as you said, I could not find legacy in the list. Obviously, I must be doing something wrong. Perhaps you can explain to me what I've done wrong. Also, I could not find the preset called hum killer. Hope you can get back with me soon while I have time to work on this.
At last, I finally got to find where are the kill hummus. Thank you so much. I'm sorry to be so dense here but this logic Pro is 1 million times more complicated than Final Cut Pro. I never had anywhere near the issues of trying to figure Final Cut Pro as I have this. And I have a music degree +90 graduate hours I don't get this. I know how to run sound machines and everything but this electronic sound machine is a whole New World world. With that said, it works and cleaned up the home but then when you clean it up, you lose volume and I know that's a trade off for a crummy home sound. But it worked. Thank you on this
The legacy fix did not work. When I download logic pro I downloaded everything that came with it. But I do not know if I have to download an additional legacy plug-in or I already have it and I have to just fine where it is on the program. Maybe you can explain that more clearly for me.
I have been doing some exploration after being totally frustrated with this program. I found a program audacity, but this program should be far superior to that. I know audacity does only editing of audios, and it doesn't create music like this program does. But I believe this program should have that capability fully without having to buy any add-ons. Final Cut Pro has all the simple add-ons that you need to fix audio and video and I used every one of them over the last 10 years. In any case I thank you all for being so patient with me.
With 44 years of musical experience and terminologies this program it's like learning a new foreign language and someone needs to write instructions and make them easy to understand. Easy to understand language. None of this makes a lot of sense unless you're training this and have 44 years of experience in this. In any case thanks for all your help. I'll wait for the additional answers.
Well, my friend, Logic isn't Final Cut Pro. If it's any consolation I don't know what I'm doing with video and find Final Cut Pro massively confusing and frustrating. Coming up from an analogue studio (yes I'm old) I found Logic to be pretty easy from the Mixer page. The inserts are slots (like the ones I pointed out above) whereas they are physical input and output jacks on a mixing console but it was the same principle. As was the busses, aux and groups. So it translated quite easily for me.
There was, of course, a learning curve but an evening with the manual answered most basic questions. This was many years ago.
Logic does come with stock plug-ins for great recording, mixing amd production. Using techniques you learn as an engineer can help with clean up, like side-chaining a compressor with an eq for example. Used to do this in the analogue world and it's easy to do in Logic. It does have the ability to clean up audio but It's more to do with engineering techniques though. Any of the specialised 3rd party plugs that focus in on clean up like Izotopes RX work in all DAWs including Audacity. None of the most popular DAWs specialise in cleanup but there's always things you can do depending on the state of the audio and engineering skills.
What musical, recording, mixing, engineering terminaologies are you having trouble with in Logic? Maybe we can help. Lot's of users here with lots of experience always willing to help.
These are the insert slots...
Don't control click on the audio file.
Control click on an insert slot on the track that the audio is on. Then you'll see 'Legacy' in the list that pops up.
First, thanks for responding. I do not understand what you mean by control click on the insert slot. What's that mean. I thought that meant the audio track.
I've never had logic pro before this version of 10.7.5 as its on my new M1 Mac Studio...
Perhaps you can do a screenshot of what you mean by control click on it inserts lot where is that at?
Cleaning up old cassette tape audio on logic pro
