Noise Gates

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Hey, are there other noise gates that work with Audacity, and if so, anyone recommend any?

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are there other noise gates that work with Audacity, and if so, anyone recommend any?

I don’t know of any but somebody else may post.

What do we need our noise gate for? What’s the show?

Koz

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Hi Koz, it’s a NSFW comedy podcast about marriage/married life/fatherhood - all of that stuff from the perspective of men. If those men were giant children :smiley:

I don’t want to abuse the forum with links but happy to share with anyone interested.

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Thank you.

Sometimes the show or presentation will dictate the direction we go with questions.

Why do you need a noise gate?

Koz

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It’s to help remove “saliva clicks” - if that’s what you’d call them.

I don’t usually smack my lips when I talk, and drinking more water helps (dry mouth when recording?) - but I wanted to try and eliminate those sounds as much as I could.

Turning down the treble helps because they are more high pitched frequencies, but I thought this would help.

menmoirs.men if you want to hear the most recent episode to see what I mean, but I’m not sharing with the intention of promoting or spamming the board. I am a rule follower by nature.

Also known as a square :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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Rather than noise-gate plugin , try DeClicker plugin, (example settings below)…

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This is great, thanks. I assume it is the same installation process as others (copy file to plug in library)?

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Yes : it’s just another Nyquist plugin, which work in Audacity on all platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux).
If you can post a few seconds of saliva clicks. I can suggest bespoke settings for the DeClicker plugin.

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Declicker is great thanks so much

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Declicker is great thanks so much

And that’s why we needed to know what you were doing. There are better tools to get what you want.

Koz

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Wondering if this plugin would be better than the noise gate for removing Macbook mouse click sounds. I’ve tried noise gate but despite playing with the attack/decay settings I’m still getting some unnatural drops in my talking portions.

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Noise-gates only work on what should be silence, e.g. the gaps between words,
Noise-gates don’t reduce/remove noise which occurs during words.