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mafg1953
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by mafg1953 » Mon Jul 20, 2020 6:11 pm
Hi,
Some of the seminar audio I receive to edit is coming through with little to no room noise so I was wondering about adding some brown noise so the breaks aren't completely silent.
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I generated a brownian noise at 0.0035 (file attached) and was wondering if that would work - and if yes, are there guidelines as to the suggested amplitude and what would be the best way to add that to the file (section by section or by mixing)?
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If this is a bad idea, what might be some other suggestions? The audio files come from a Zoom recording so I doubt that those can be addressed at the source.
Thanks,
Mike
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Trebor
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by Trebor » Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:36 am
mafg1953 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 6:11 pm
... adding some brown noise so the breaks aren't completely silent ...
There's a name for that ...
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_noise
Could
AutoDuck the comfort noise with the voice, so it is attenuated when people are speaking.
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mafg1953
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by mafg1953 » Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:51 pm
Thanks Trebor,
I've used AutoDuck for other things, but didn't think of it for this. I'll try that.
Mike
