Area 33 Origin – buzz in right channel OH

[pumpkinking]

Hi Folks,

Recently started digging into Area 33 Origin and I have noticed an electrical buzz in a few of the samples.  So far, to my ear anyway, it seems to be limited to the Splash 3 and Crash 4 cymbals, and only in the right side OH mic.  With low velocity hits it can be fairly noticeable, especially with the splash.  I’ve attached an OH mic bounce of a couple of soft splash hits with zero bleed.  The splash 3 position has only one cymbal option, but the crash has several and I’ve not tested them all.  I did a quick test of other cymbal positions and did not hear it, but it was not a comprehensive and detailed analysis.

Anyway, it’s noticeable but not terrible when playing live, but I’m not sure I’d want to record that artifact.

I could not find any posts about it, so I thought I’d get a record of it, and see if the support team can confirm.

Thanks!

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

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[John]

Hi,

when I listen to the Splash 3 crash soft articulations in the OH mic, I cannot spot any buzzing. Looking at your attached file, it doesn’t show anything spectrally either.

BTW, there is no Crash 4 position, did you mean Crash 3 or 5?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[pumpkinking]

Hi John – thanks for responding.

Regarding Crash 4 position – see the attached screenshot – it shows Area 33 Origin default kit and the Crash 4 position is highlighted.  It is just to the right of the tam-tam in the kit image.

Regarding the buzz in the mp3 I attached – I’ll do a frequency analysis sometime today, but I was hoping it would be clearly audible in that clip.  I’ll work on isolating it some more.

Thanks,

Joe

 

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.1
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

[Korken]

I can confirm I hear the buzz in the attached clip. It is better to raise the volume to spot it better. I still haven’t tried in my own library, though.

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[pumpkinking]

Hi John – a little more information.  I’ve attached a new OH-R bounce where I have cranked up the channel gain and the bounce gain, and I think the effect is much more discernible on listening now.  I’ve looked at the spectrogram for both R and L OH channels, and I cannot identify anything specific, but this sound has a multi-frequency, square wave sound to it.  Zooming into the waveforms of the R channel during the decay, I can see some squaring of the waveforms, compared to the left, but it is very polychromic and hard to say anything is there conclusively.

Thanks, Joe

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.1
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

[John]

Hi,

thanks for the new example, I have forwarded this to my colleagues.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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