I am hoping someone can assist me. I am on Windows 10 and using 2.0.6 of Audacity.
I am editing a “Voice Only” MP3. For some reason, the recording this week includes Buzzing/Static. The issue is that it’s ONLY present when the speaker is talking. This means I cannot isolate the Buzzing/Static during a Non-Speaking portion to build a Noise Profile and remove from the entire recording.
Is there a method with Audacity that can remove the Buzzing/Static/Hissing that is only present when the speaker talks? During the silent parts, there is no Buzzing/Static/Hissing. I’ve googled and cannot find a method with Audacity.
One more thing to note. The first few seconds of the recording, there is no Buzzing/Static/Hissing. I was hoping I could select that section to use to then delete the Static from the rest of the File, but I can’t determine how that would work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve googled and cannot find a method with Audacity.
That’s because there isn’t one.
The first few seconds of the recording, there is no Buzzing/Static/Hissing.
Which is upside down. The Profile step in Noise Reduction needs a significant segment of Pure Noise with no voice in order to work. If the noise is only there during voice, that’s the end.
That confirms someone recorded a noisy podcast and then tried to rescue it with a really bad noise removal. And then gave it to you. Have a happy day.
That’s the kind of thing the earlier Effect > Noise Removal did. That’s the one in Audacity 2.0.6.
We can’t take effects and filters out of a production. Once somebody puts them in, it’s permanent.
So. Get the producer to send you the raw, unprocessed, WAV sound file and try Noise Reduction in Audacity 2.1.2 here.
http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
Drag-select a fifteen second, mono portion of the show, export it, and post it here. We may be able to give you some pointers as to the best way to go.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-post-an-audio-sample/29851/1
Koz
By posting a sample on the forum, I mean the raw, unprocessed sound file you get from the producer, not the damaged one.
Koz
Thank you for the reply. The file I have is a raw file. It was a .aif
I converted to MP3 for Audacity. The hiss was present in the raw file as well.
The Admin is going to check the equipment this week as this has never been a problem.
Still. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Somebody shot a damaged performance and tried to cover it up. I’m sticking with that. You should get Production to submit a short test recording for acceptance. If somebody does that again, it will be two shows you can’t use.
There is one other way to get this effect. Rachel Maddow has a very poor television studio (I’ve accused them of shooting the show on the NBC loading dock) and they use a noise gate on her voice. All her words are noisy and have tails on them followed by velvety silence.
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/RachelMaddowNoiseGate.mp3
You didn’t complain about tails.
Koz