Acoustic show hiss

[pepper]

I recorded an acoustic show last night and got more hiss than i expected.The first set seems to be fine,but the second set is suprisingly hissy.As it was a cocktail bar and there was a bit of noise,i put the mic next to the speaker,and obviously set my levels pretty low.Seems like they must have been too low as there is a lot of hiss,and its a shame as it could have been a listenable recording with neXt to no audience noise.I have no experience with trying to improve this kind of problem,as ive tried and always made it sound worse.Has anyone( preferable in the uk) got enough experience with this kind of thing to give it a go??.Any help is appreciated.Il try and post a sample so you can hear how bad it is.

sample http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m...792155&q=hi

Edited September 20, 2007 by pepper

[A440]

You could try the noise filter in Audacity, the free sound editing program.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows

Make a saved copy of your original upload, and play around with a different copy.

Open Audacity and use it to open the file (as an .mp3 or .wav).

You need to Select the whole file or a part of it, and that activates the Effect menu. With Noise Filter, you select a section that has the hiss alone, it analyzes it and then tries to remove it. Another way to get rid of the most annoying part of hiss is with a Low Pass filter (in Effects)--cut it off over 10,000 Hz or try some variations.

Edited September 20, 2007 by A440