NEED HELP: how to get back audio from BG noise
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NEED HELP: how to get back audio from BG noise
Not sure if my situation is salvageable. I have a track that has extreme nosie over speech. You can barely hear the speech but its there. Anyway of geeting rid of the noise? Remove noise function doesn't seem to do much.THanks!
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Re: NEED HELP: how to get back audio from BG noise
What the designers mean by noise removal is to suppress that quiet, tiny, small, almost insignificant air conditioner noise behind a valuable, clear, well shot interview.
What most people want is what you got. Turn barely recognizable speech plus garbage into a quiet interview.
The noise removal tool can help, but probably not the one in Audacity 1.2 Download and install Audacity 1.3 and use the noise tools there. They're much better and they have vastly improved controls and adjustments. You can install 1.2 and 1.3, just don't use them at once.
You in particular are going to have problems with sampling the noise without the voice. That's totally critical for proper operation. If you can't do that accurately, no tool is going to help you. The tools memorize what the "room" sounds like without the voices (room tone) and then subtracts it from the performance. If there is any performance during the room tone sample, you're dead. If there is any change between the room tone sound and the eventual performance (somebody turned the air conditioner off) you are, guess what, dead.
Let us know (here) how you get on.
It is said over on the television forums that sound kills more shows than video.
Can you post a 10 or 15 second sample somewhere we can hear it? WAV or very gracefully compressed MP3. MP3 interferes with this process a lot.
Koz
What most people want is what you got. Turn barely recognizable speech plus garbage into a quiet interview.
The noise removal tool can help, but probably not the one in Audacity 1.2 Download and install Audacity 1.3 and use the noise tools there. They're much better and they have vastly improved controls and adjustments. You can install 1.2 and 1.3, just don't use them at once.
You in particular are going to have problems with sampling the noise without the voice. That's totally critical for proper operation. If you can't do that accurately, no tool is going to help you. The tools memorize what the "room" sounds like without the voices (room tone) and then subtracts it from the performance. If there is any performance during the room tone sample, you're dead. If there is any change between the room tone sound and the eventual performance (somebody turned the air conditioner off) you are, guess what, dead.
Let us know (here) how you get on.
It is said over on the television forums that sound kills more shows than video.
Can you post a 10 or 15 second sample somewhere we can hear it? WAV or very gracefully compressed MP3. MP3 interferes with this process a lot.
Koz