# Suggestions for soundproofing and background elemination

**URL:** <https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/suggestions-for-soundproofing-and-background-elemination/49459>\
**Category:** Audio Processing\
**Created:** [June 20, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/suggestions-for-soundproofing-and-background-elemination/49459 "2018-06-20T20:31:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![kozikowski](https://forum.audacityteam.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@kozikowski](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/kozikowski)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/suggestions-for-soundproofing-and-background-elemination/49459/4 "2018-06-26T03:07:54Z")

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I thought you were going to post a two second clip. We can’t do much with that.

This is perfect.

Nice voice. Thank you Johnny Olsen.

This better? Set the playback volume so your voice is normal and then rewind to the beginning and listen.  
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It meets AudioBook standards.

I applied the Audiobook Mastering 4 tools from here. The posting is obsessive. It’s really only three filters.

[https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audiobook-mastering-version-4/45908/1](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audiobook-mastering-version-4/45908/1)

Followed by _very slightly_ aggressive Noise Reduction. 9, 6, 6.

You got lucky. Most of your trash is low pitched and the rest is “well behaved” and moderately easy to get rid of. I can talk you through that in detail.  
  
  
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny\_Olson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Olson)

Koz

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