# best method to use noise reduction

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**Created:** [January 14, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/best-method-to-use-noise-reduction/63947 "2022-01-14T16:23:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trebor](https://forum.audacityteam.org/user_avatar/forum.audacityteam.org/trebor/32/45854_2.png) [@Trebor](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/Trebor)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/best-method-to-use-noise-reduction/63947/17 "2022-02-10T00:07:20Z")

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> I searched LibriVox for the full string “apply noise reduction”; phpBB advanced search is broken and it returns partial matches. Even so only 0.114% (about 1 in 9,000) of the posts on the board talk about noise reduction …

How often is “de-essing” mentioned ? …  
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IMO de-essing is a more intrusive issue than continuous noise, as [ones brain can edit that out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_adaptation).

In this case I used [Steve’s de-esser plugin](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/please-help-with-de-sser/48588/14), rather than the [desibilator plugin](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/updated-de-clicker-and-new-de-esser-for-speech/34283/199).  
 ![steve's de-esser settings used.png](https://forum.audacityteam.org/uploads/default/original/3X/8/7/87a5d888a0613fa83ec15658c2559b9fbf2d01d8.png)

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