(Apologies for the political nature of the voice recording, this sample just happens to be a very good example of the problem.)
This recording is from an archive I am working with and was recorded about 4 years ago. I do not know what equipment was used. My best assumption is that the equipment was one of those electronic lectern setups like in universities but if so then I don’t think it was a very good lectern because the general audio quality is so disappointing. I don’t have high hopes for improving the clarity of the recording, I would just like to remove aspects that interfere most in the immersiveness of the recording, mainly this ringing sound.
Compression and noise removal have removed a lot of this ringing sound from across the recording, but as you can hear, this sound still remains on parts of the recording. I have tried using the high pass filter and the equaliser to remove it but I have been fiddling with this on my own for a couple of weeks and am struggling to get anywhere.
This is part of a one-off career project that will improve my quality of life a great deal and I would like to get the project as polished as I can, so any suggestions about how to get rid of this annoying sound would be much appreciated. Thank you very much for reading my question.
I couldn’t do it either. I was hoping to be able to find one or two feedback tones to suppress, but the room echoes just killed me. Once you build auditorium echoes and reverb into a performance it becomes a “record it again” problem.
And Hollywood does do that. If we get a terrible live field performance, we’ve been known to record the words again in a quiet studio and substitute the clean version in the show.
That notch filter code is specific to the example you posted.
If the position of the mic is changed during the lecture, (e.g. if it is hand-held and the lecturer moves about),
the pitch of the ringing will change and those notch-filters won’t match.
This week I delivered my project to an enthusiastic reception. I’m so grateful to this product and community. Without Trebor’s solution the audio would not have been possible for an audience to listen to, so my project would not have had any chance of success. What this means for me is that I have achieved a competitive portfolio in the job market, because I have conceived, proposed, lead, developed, and delivered a project that is complete with a pilot. Sorry I have not posted properly about it yet but my circumstances cause me to have a lot of hectic priorities. Not sure what the thread closing policy is here but hope this thread will remain open for me to post 1 more piece of information about how the audio turned out. Thank you
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