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Really quiet background noise after mastering...?
« on: March 13, 2016, 11:51:57 pm »
Hey! So there's a little thing I've noticed a couple of times now when mastering my tracks. After I'm starting to feel finished and have boosted up the volume, there's some sort of noise in the background that you can hear in the most quiet parts of the track if you crank up the volume in your speakers a bit. The reason I noticed it is because I usually have a bar or two at the end of the track where there is complete silence, but it's not actually silence because of this noise. Why does this occur and what can I do about it? Is it something I'm doing wrong when mixing, or does this happen to everyone?

I don't know if it's worth mentioning but I'm using ableton live.

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Re: Really quiet background noise after mastering...?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2016, 12:07:07 am »
First, I'd check if this isn't made by either some distortion, saturation or tape/vinyl sim plugin. Sometimes those can generate some noise on purpose. If so, gate that particular track and you're done.

If that isn't the case, I'd suspect you might have dithering active on several stages of production. May be you render it out with dithering, turn dithering on in oZone and then render mastered result with dithering again? That might add up dither noise to the point it's audible.
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Re: Really quiet background noise after mastering...?
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2016, 12:57:50 am »
if you have any waves plugins turn off the "analog" button, or any buttons that say either 50hz or 60hz (power source noise emulation).

Other analog emulating plugins can create this noise as well, or if you are actually running it through analog gear it can be that.  It could also just be that your noise floor was brought up by your gain staging in mastering process, making it audible