Adding Background Noise

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hi,

Some of the seminar audio I receive to edit is coming through with little to no room noise so I was wondering about adding some brown noise so the breaks aren’t completely silent.

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I generated a brownian noise at 0.0035 (file attached) and was wondering if that would work - and if yes, are there guidelines as to the suggested amplitude and what would be the best way to add that to the file (section by section or by mixing)?

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If this is a bad idea, what might be some other suggestions? The audio files come from a Zoom recording so I doubt that those can be addressed at the source.

Thanks,

Mike

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There’s a name for that … Comfort noise - Wikipedia

Could AutoDuck the comfort noise with the voice, so it is attenuated when people are speaking.

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Thanks Trebor,

I’ve used AutoDuck for other things, but didn’t think of it for this. I’ll try that.

Mike