So what I’m asking, is if there is a way that noise reduction can pick up the noise better?
You probably want Audacity to reduce more noise better. Audacity picks it up just fine.
This is the improved Noise Reduction. The older version only reduced noise in the spaces between sounds or voices. If you had enough noise, it would give you pumping noise with voice volume. Not the best special effect.
I know it’s my recording device that picks up a ton of noise
What’s the job? You didn’t say. It’s good not to address issues in a vacuum.
I published a Kitchen Table Studio which helps get rid of environment noises and echoes.
Depending on the job, that may be enough.
If most of the noise is microphone hiss (ffffff), that may be the end of the world. The only way out may be to change the microphone.
There is also Noise Gate.
The service is tuned to recognize the spaces between words or sounds and only reduce noise during those spaces. That gets rid of the tinny voice problem, but it’s terrifically hard to adjust and keep working because it can’t tell when you announce louder or softer, and it has odd sound problems of its own.
You would think very high technology should be able to pull this out, right? They did. That’s how cellphones work. On the fly, adaptive noise reduction. Unfortunately, the goal there was cellphone voice, not theatrical presentation.
Is that your goal? You didn’t say.
Koz