Hey everyone, I know I’ve made a few posts around here asking questions before… but I really feel like I’m not making much progress at all in getting better at this. I spend a lot of time just going back and forth on edits, feeling like I’m making things worse. I was wondering if someone might be willing to listen to like a minutes sample of a before and after that I’ve done and let me know if it’s actually better than it was, and maybe some pointers on the obvious stuff I could do to improve on it?
Before:
After:
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I think they are wrong way round: “Before” sounds much more processed.
“After” does not sound unprocessed: it sounds like typical “audio enhancement”.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/disable-audio-enhancements
Well, the base recording uses the RNNoise impression filter as a default. So the Before is just with that. The After is after I take it to Audacity and run Noise Suppression on any hissing background audio, de-esser, de-clicker and a 60hz filter curve EQ.
Two doses of noise reduction is a bad idea: generates artifacts of artifacts.
I can’t hear any hiss on the “base recording”,
so IMO applying noise reduction to it in Audacity is only doing harm.
Noise reduction artifacts are incurable …
“Base recording” Compressed & EQ’d
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I may have given a bad sample then… my default recording setup has bad air noise in the background that is there even with the noise reduction on. Let me try another example…
Recorded directly in Audacity without any of the filters I have on OBS
And then AFTER all the things I listed above that I normally do
And just as a note, I typically record with OBS and I tried to do a test recording there without the filters and it still sounded different than recording directly in Audacity.
Sorry my ear is not good enough to help. Good luck!
Buy yourself a good microphone. This one is extremely noisy. Just $100 will solve all noise problems
I’ve been thinking about getting an Audio-Technica BPHS1, but in the mean time I gotta deal with what I’ve got right now. I mean, this room I record in has always had that ‘noise’ across multiple microphones in the past. I can’t really do anything about the room, so I’m trying to fix as much as I can after the fact.
That AFTER sounds like a bit too much noise reduction.
Better too little than too much noise reduction as it causes collateral damage to speech.
Adobe Podcast Enhance AI is worth a try (free) …
before-after
Could you describe the damage that you are hearing from the noise reduction? I think part of my problem is an inability to detect what it wrong.
As for Adobe Podcast, I wanted to try it before, but for some reason, I cannot use their service. Despite the fact that I live in the USA, and that my location is listed in the USA on their site, it tells me that it can’t be used from my location and I have to go to a third party store. Their help chat and forums have been the literal opposite, lol.
I will say though, as per my above statement of not being able to hear what the exact damage is… to my hearing, the ‘after’ from Adobe Podcast sounds worse than what I was able to do in Audacity.