Urgent need for an answer please

[d3d_ent]

Hello, I read a majority of the posts and I don't think this has been asked yet. If it has, I apologize. I used the noise canceling feature on Audacity. It worked well, cancelling out the unwanted wind noise that was recorded on my audio and for the most part, sounded good except for the volume which could be fixed by gain. However, going to export it as an Mp3 to be used in my Video editor, the sound was very unpleasing. Did I do something wrong? I also exported it as a .wav format and same thing. Please help me as I need to turn this into the bride in less than a week.

[kozikowski]

You were able to play the show while it was in Audacity and after you applied the corrections, right? Then, no matter how you Exported it, the sound was damaged? That's where you sailed into Never-Never-Land. Anybody can create an MP3 that sounds funny. MP3 has tuners and adjustments and it's easy to mess up. But not WAV. WAV has no options.

How did you play the WAV after you made it? Can you open it up in Audacity and listen to it?

You should Save An Audacity Project while you have the work active. That should let you open the show again after you turn off the computer.

You should post a brief segment of "real sound" from the show on the forum for us to listen to it. Plain voices are good. Do not, for one famous example, complain about distortion in your fuzz guitar. That's not helpful.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=72887

Koz

[d3d_ent]

Thats a good idea. I will post the before and after. The original is of human voices and heavy wind distorting it. I will post the two samples and get some feedback. Thanks for replying.

[kozikowski]

You shouldn't worry about the After. We'll make our own.
Koz

[d3d_ent]

I uploaded a clip. Here you can hear the wind in the background. When I go to export, or even in audacity, the end product sounds unpleasing

[d3d_ent]

so I don't know. Did I do this right. Uploading the clip

[kozikowski]

Forum help is voluntary and spread across ten time zones. Sometimes it takes a minute.
Koz

[kozikowski]

I was able to help a bit. This may be good enough for your show (attached). You did record this "in the wild" and there's only so much we can do. If this is OK, I'll post how I did it.

[kozikowski]

Here's one where I squeezed the wind noise a little bit more. If you're interviewing somebody with a male voice, this may create problems with them. Koz

[kozikowski]

Here's one where I left the crowd in but took out as much wind as I could.
Koz