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by steve
Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:13 pm
Forum: Nyquist
Topic: Modifying Sound Finder to find high frequencies?
Replies: 31
Views: 10596

Re: Modifying Sound Finder to find high frequencies?

... what I'm talking about ;) If your sound card is reasonably good (accurate) you should be able to go pretty tight with the notch filter, which may help to clean up your low frequency display (without eliminating the low frequency signals that you want to keep). This will allow you to easily test ...
by HopeForTheVoiceless
Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:30 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: can LEVELING help reduce steady background noise?
Replies: 7
Views: 1934

Re: can LEVELING help reduce steady background noise?

... studios/radio stations? too bad the track can't simply be split between the background sound and the speaker. what the speaker's saying could help not only at-risk animals but the so many of the people serving them.
by edan
Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:09 pm
Forum: Nyquist
Topic: Modifying Sound Finder to find high frequencies?
Replies: 31
Views: 10596

Re: Modifying Sound Finder to find high frequencies?

... the signal in a way that's useful to the plugin makes it nearly impossible to analyze by eye later. We can possibly do that, but it it would help a lot if we know exactly what sort of filtering we need before we try to build it. I was under the impression that you were trying to find the ...
by steve
Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:49 pm
Forum: Nyquist
Topic: Modifying Sound Finder to find high frequencies?
Replies: 31
Views: 10596

Re: Modifying Sound Finder to find high frequencies?

... the signal in a way that's useful to the plugin makes it nearly impossible to analyze by eye later. We can possibly do that, but it it would help a lot if we know exactly what sort of filtering we need before we try to build it. I was under the impression that you were trying to find the ...
by kozikowski
Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:46 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: I am only hearing white noise
Replies: 1
Views: 450

Re: I am only hearing white noise

What kind of microphone do you have, how is it connected and do you have it selected in the Device Toolbar? http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/device_toolbar.html I assume you're speaking against a music bed and you're using the overdubbing or multi-track instructions to get there. ...
by kozikowski
Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:33 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: can LEVELING help reduce steady background noise?
Replies: 7
Views: 1934

Re: can LEVELING help reduce steady background noise?

All the leveling, volume control, compression and processing tools can actually make noise removal worse or more difficult. The only two that actually do anything valuable are Noise Gate and Noise Removal. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Noise_Gate Noise Gate tries to suppr...
by steve
Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:51 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: can LEVELING help reduce steady background noise?
Replies: 7
Views: 1934

Re: can LEVELING help reduce steady background noise?

I doubt that it will help. but if it is free there's no harm trying it.
Here's what we have on noise reduction: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Noise_Removal
by HopeForTheVoiceless
Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:47 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: can LEVELING help reduce steady background noise?
Replies: 7
Views: 1934

can LEVELING help reduce steady background noise?

i've used all else in audacity, according to instructions, and now i'm grasping, i know.
also, there is freeware called The Levelator. has anyone used it successfully for this purpose?
thanks . . .
by mdubin
Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:45 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Quality Settings for CD
Replies: 19
Views: 7911

Re: Quality Settings for CD

... the minor consequences. There are many classical passages which are low and I would rather not hear any additional hiss. Thanks for all your help. mdubin
by steve
Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:37 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Need help removing ringing background sound
Replies: 7
Views: 6381

Re: Need help removing ringing background sound

[moderator note: link removed] next-door-are-fighting-again I'm not a legal expert, but it is probably a breach of privacy laws in many countries to record your neighbours and publish the recording on the Internet without consent. Also the recording quality is so poor that it would not be possible ...