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Problem - There's a constant low end hum or high end hiss on an instrument track, or the vocals are too boomy. This track noise eats up space, clouding up the entire song. And the boomy vocals interfere with the kick and bass clarity. Solution - Roll off the bass in your vocals. Use a high pass filter on your vocal track anywhere from 150hz-300hz. Move around in that range to see what sounds best. This will eliminate most if not all of the low end hum. And unless you're singing like Barry White, you don't need that low frequency in your vocal track. Look through your entire song for noisy tracks. Sometimes the cause is a mic being boosted to loud during recording or an instrument is gained/boosted to much. Find your noisy tracks and either eliminate them or reduce their noise by EQ high or low pass filtering the track.
Noise/hiss is easily noticed at the beginning and sometimes at the end of songs, when instrumentation is low. It's not as noticeable when the meat of the song is playing. The problem is, the noise is always present and is slightly clouding up your entire song.
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