ACX Dang that noise floor

[kozikowski]

that’s why you went to California!

I took a wrong turn in Arizona. Wait. What is this warm place with palm trees and surfers?

I’m sending you high quality MP3s of your test clips. I used the classic DeEsser…

Updated De-Clicker and new De-esser for speech

Here are the latest improvements to the plug-in I am developing for filtering out of wet mouth noises and clicks from my narrations. I also present a de-esser using similar methods that fell out as a by-product. De-Clicker is designed for filtering of natural but undesirable noises that take a few milliseconds to decay, not for repairing spikey damage to a digitized signal. I did not intend this for music or vinyl repair, but I would like to hear whether it has unexpected other uses. The def…

…according to these settings.



I used the mastering tools like this.

From here.

Missing features

The two states are different. Only Tennessee needs the DeEsser.

Here’s how mastering goes.

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Maryland/Tennessee Matching
2019-01-09


FF MD

Audiobook Mastering
Effect > Noise Reduction 9, 6, 6


FF TN

Audiobook Mastering
Effect > DeEsser -20.0, 10.0, 2500.0, 8000.0, 10, 5.0
Effect > Noise Reduction 9, 6, 6

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The two groups more or less match with TN being slightly more noisy than MD. Both pass. We hope nobody will notice. You can’t just crank up the Noise Reduction because that may affect your voice.

Koz