Audacity Forum

help ?!?!?

my vocals are coming out way to dry after i run the noise removal

Noise Removal is a juggling act between all the remove settings and odd things happen if any one of the three are too high or too low. That and all these tools are a complete slave to your profile. Make sure your sample sound or profile in step one has only the interfering sound and none of the performance. Audacity will try to subtract everything in the sample or profile from the show.

Assuming the sample is OK, start with low reduction values. I start with -18 dB, 500Hz and zero delay. If that sounds OK, but a little of the noise is still there, up the reduction value to -24 dB. If the voice starts sounding bubbly or distorted, increase the 500 Hz number to 800 Hz. Juggle the tools until you get the maximum reduction and the least damage. This isn't a tool that has one best setting.

There are also background noises that can not be removed. Crowd voice noises are almost impossible as are noises that change like a MetroBus starting up during the show.

Koz

thanks koz this helped some, you seem like you know the program well you got any other tips to make my vocals sound better .. heres examples of my work http://www.myspace.com/rodneysick & http://www.horrormusick.net/rodney_sick .. if you hear something that i need to fix let me know.

It's a little rough to do quality analysis when the whole point of the music is to be edgy, crisp, and highly processed.

I think it's fine as is. Producers learn really early on that it's not a mistake if you tell everybody you meant it to be that way.

Koz

thnx man, i used to use cool edit pro back in the early 2000's i was out of action for a few years then when i come back cool edit was no more then i found this program and ive just been trying to get a nice sound .