created by Likemylife on 25/12/2016 at 00:27 UTC
34878 upvotes, 123 top-level comments (showing 25)
Comment by allnamesiwantareused at 25/12/2016 at 01:25 UTC
27407 upvotes, 19 direct replies
Please check your PM.
Comment by Likemylife at 25/12/2016 at 00:31 UTC
4455 upvotes, 15 direct replies
We lost our son on October 9th 2016 at the age of 15. This video was taken in May of 2014. I am hoping there is a way to clean up the video.
Comment by DJ-SHITFUCK at 25/12/2016 at 01:51 UTC
782 upvotes, 3 direct replies
If you haven't gotten this taken care of already, I'm sure the nice folks over at https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/[1] would be down to help
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/
Comment by Likemylife at 25/12/2016 at 01:22 UTC
5264 upvotes, 14 direct replies
I don't need up votes, or karma, I don't even know what it actually does. I honestly just want to hear my son's voice clearly. I'm aware it isn't the same exact voice as when we lost him but it is him and it is a beautiful song that means more to me now than ever.
Comment by Oh_Hamburger at 25/12/2016 at 01:03 UTC
1502 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Beautiful voice. Im really sorry for your loss. I hope your family is doing well this holiday.
Comment by SavageTaco at 25/12/2016 at 02:09 UTC
1992 upvotes, 5 direct replies
You've already found a few people that can help you, and audio cleaning isn't my forte. I just wanted to offer my condolences. I'm sorry for your loss.
I wanted to share something that another redditor posted in regards to grief. I've had to deal with a far amount of loss in my lifetime and the paragraphs below really made sense when I read it recently.
"As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it's some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.
In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you'll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what's going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything...and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.
Somewhere down the line, and it's different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O'Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you'll come out.
Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don't really want them to. But you learn that you'll survive them. And other waves will come. And you'll survive them too."
Comment by Likemylife at 25/12/2016 at 09:10 UTC
534 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I've tried really hard to personally respond to each comment bit I'm very tired and getting a little delirious. I actually typed a response that said thanks neat person. So I'm done for the night. Thank you all for your kind words. I can't believe the amount of support. You all are in my prayers. Even the mean ones.
Thanks for reddit Gold. I will read how to use it in the morning. Good night and Merry Christmas. I am so excited about the quality of the video I have received
Comment by Likemylife at 25/12/2016 at 18:27 UTC
135 upvotes, 1 direct replies
https://youtu.be/qEem86UOhCQ[1] Here is a version that was completed by an amazing redditor. Several others did a fantastic job as well but I believe they posted theirs in the comments. Thank you to everyone for your kindness, thoughts, and prayers. If I didn't reply to your comment I apologize. I tried.
1: https://youtu.be/qEem86UOhCQ
Comment by [deleted] at 25/12/2016 at 05:45 UTC
486 upvotes, 7 direct replies
Apparently his school suspended anyone who wore pins to commemorate Nathan. Including his *sister*, and tried to make it seem like they gave her days off to grieve. What, the, actual, fuck.
Comment by Cigs77 at 25/12/2016 at 02:46 UTC
247 upvotes, 2 direct replies
im not much for sappy comments, but merry christmas man. I honestly hope you can find some peace.
Comment by oscane at 25/12/2016 at 06:07 UTC*
62 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Here is an audio render[1] that heavily removes crackle, hum, etc. Added some reverb, and manually pulled out a few pops where I could. I also went with the left channel because the vocals were louder, so there is definitely more emphasis on the singing. The post processing may be a bit much, but you might enjoy.
1: http://www.mediafire.com/file/3ltnj7zl9zu43b2/promise_nathan_v2.mp3
I hope you see this! Merry Christmas and God bless!
Comment by bilboslaggins_ at 25/12/2016 at 01:49 UTC
654 upvotes, 2 direct replies
This thread is spiralling out of control. Please. Please ignore the trolls. The good people among us recognise that you posted this to get help to preserve a legacy, love and memories for the rest of yours, and other family members lives. I'm so sorry for your loss. Please try to have a good Christmas and don't let the lowlife neckbeards get to you.
Comment by iHeisenburger at 25/12/2016 at 03:25 UTC
201 upvotes, 2 direct replies
please lock youtube comments and don't read them
Comment by [deleted] at 25/12/2016 at 01:29 UTC
84 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Comment by [deleted] at 25/12/2016 at 05:22 UTC
44 upvotes, 2 direct replies
If you can email me the video I can certainly try to help. I've been working with audio for half my life.
Edit: I lost my 2.5 yr old son in 2012 so I would love to help out. We only have like 6 short clips of him, those things are precious.
Comment by [deleted] at 25/12/2016 at 05:02 UTC
107 upvotes, 2 direct replies
@likemylife I am an audio engineer and do this stuff daily. Happy to help. Sorry for your loss.
Comment by ShieldProductions at 25/12/2016 at 04:46 UTC*
176 upvotes, 4 direct replies
My brother was 21 when he died. I was 16. I had gone 16 years without seeing my father cry, even at his own mothers funeral. It was the scariest thing I'd ever see. He was in a car accident December 26th, 2004 and passed on January 3, 2005 after eight days on life support. It gutted me and stole my childhood. In a split second, I had become the older brother and was the man of the house. I still have letters my father wrote me during the next year or so, like on Easter when he wrote to tell me he had gone out to try and buy us Easter baskets, but it was too hard and that he'd try again later.
You're going to hear a lot of advice from a lot of people who know nothing about what you're going through. Any time I meet someone who is suffering a great loss, I tell them what I wish someone would've told me when my brother died: the pain will never leave you. It'll be there every morning you wake up and every night you fall asleep. But one morning you'll wake up, and while the pain will still be massive and their will be an immeasurable void in your life, you'll learn how to exist with that pain and with that void until one day you mesh with it.
There are still days I get choked up about it, especially this time of year since we're remembering his 12th anniversary of his accident. For me, music was my solace. I'm no musician, but I sought out music that felt my pain. I came across an album three or four years ago that made me feel the loss all over again because it's a concept album about the singer losing his father to a debilitating disease, but it was the "loss" that I shared. There's a line in one of the songs that goes, "but losing you, I learned, to lose my youth." It was my exact feeing that I'd had for years but never had the words to match it. Now I have it and it's one of my top three favorite albums ever made. It may not be your cup of tea, but you could also just read the lyrics as poetry and cry. I still do sometimes.
Band: Pianos Become The Teeth Album: "The Lack Long After"
There are a few other go-to songs about loss that I tend to replay this time of year, but I'll post just two more and leave you alone. Just know that I love you, and I am devastated for your loss.
Band: Bayside Song: "Winter"
Band: Bleed The Dream Song: "No Smiles On Christmas"
PS: I'm not posting these to hurt you or to make you mope around and feel sorry for yourself. I just know what these songs did to me when I was going through the hardest moments of my life and I want you to have that same feeling.
Comment by allnamesiwantareused at 25/12/2016 at 10:57 UTC*
29 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Wow, thanks everyone for the kind words. I really appreciate it, but i just wanted to help out a mother who just lost his son.
On how i fixed up the video: I'm no audio engineer, but i work in digital forensics and recently finished cleaning up my private VHS collection of home videos. I mainly used the noise filter capabilities of Adobe Audition. This removed the background noise perfectly.
With the permission of /u/Likemylife, i will try to fix up the video a bit and reupload it to youtube as a private video. I will send /u/Likemylife the link so he can share it here if he wants.
Comment by [deleted] at 25/12/2016 at 04:46 UTC
23 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Wow, your sons voice was amazing. You mentioned that he was 15. That's incredible, I remember when I performed my first piano recital at the same age. I was nervous as can be and barely held my composure, making multiple mistakes.
I've re-played that video 5 times now and he had such a comforting voice.
I'm so sorry for your loss and I'm sorry for the pain that comes along with it. You mentioned your son impacted many; he has now touched that many more peoples lives by posting this video, including mine.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
All the best.
Comment by [deleted] at 25/12/2016 at 01:51 UTC*
69 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by caveman_chubs at 25/12/2016 at 02:33 UTC
100 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Great voice. It's obvious you took pride in his talent. A honor to listen to your son.
Comment by Shelbones at 25/12/2016 at 00:38 UTC
122 upvotes, 2 direct replies
You can use audacity which is free and should remove a lot of it, it guides you through how to do it.
Comment by CombatCloud at 25/12/2016 at 01:18 UTC
78 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Sorry for your loss.
Comment by _GJS_ at 25/12/2016 at 03:39 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Wayfaring Stranger is such a beautiful song, I'm sorry for your loss and I can't imagine what you're going through. Your Son absolutely nailed this song and it reminded me of my times in choir when My friends sang this for a song. This was beautiful.
Comment by [deleted] at 25/12/2016 at 05:27 UTC
68 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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