Am I the only one to hear a cricket or shaker sound when using Picked Acoustic Ray of Light C1 as played no voicing generator? I've try changing all the effects / settings, nothing works. Please help!
I can hear the artifact you describe: that's organic string sound. Not insect related, but guitar related!
Sorry, C1 is the strumming setting, I meant Em.
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On my computer I can not hear any "cricket or shaker sound" .
Have you tried using Kontakt standalone to see if you get same result for the ?
Also then in upper right of picture it say sound preset is 'custom' and I would also guess that Guitar Settings is of influence too ?
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I have used everything as is when opening in Kontakt 8 standalone :
Thank you so much for taking the time. I opened Kontakt 8, chose Ray of Light, played C and did nothing else. Listen it is clear, we hear the cricket twice every time the chord plays. It is more obvious when my phone is closer to my screen (neumann new speakers, I get the same result on my Mac speakers).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-cV9sBYNUpq-e3P5lkqqk1Siyps8dWWT/view?usp=sharingWhat do I not understand correctly?
Thanks!
I heard it
I can't hear it
Just spent 20 minutes going back and forth on this - no crickets here.
And let's be reasonable. This is a very detailed, very well done sampling session by e-Instruments - who pride themselves on bringing the very best to all these Session Instruments.
I cannot even begin to think how any extraneous sound could ever invade the studios they use for these instruments let alone allow that to appear on a commercial release.
My take - whatever the OP is hearing is simply the confluence of that specific chord generating specific overtones/frequencies (or maybe the FX/verb etc) that resembles this sound - to his ears.
I tested this via 3 sets of phones and two sets of studio monitors - turned up very loud - and I am 6 feet away - all I hear is the sweet sound of that sampled acoustic.
VP
I hear it as well, but think that what you perceive as "crickets" is simply… fret noise? Finger sliding on strings? Something like that?
(I'm not a guitar player, so bear with me if I get any lingo wrong 😅)
Thanks everyone for taking the time, I really appreciate it. What is clear now is that there is no way to avoid this. I'm really not the most experienced person around, but it is clear to me that even if this is organic, I can't relate it to a guitarist's move, nor to the sound of fingers reaching the next chord, or the pick touching a string. And it's not in the existing Fret Noise setting either. I won't be able to use this in my production; it is too present and unidentifiable. I really loved that preset.
"I won't be able to use this in my production; it is too present and unidentifiable. I really loved that preset."
Fair enough. But you should consider that everyone on this planet has unique hearing and many of us have already reported nothing out of the ordinary.
What you hear is what you hear - and that is all. But you gotta do what you gotta do I guess.
