Distorted Noise from Single Microphone Audio

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Renegade7
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Distorted Noise from Single Microphone Audio

Post by Renegade7 » Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:19 pm

We were doing an office testimonial and sadly one of the microphones spit out audio with this weird distortion. It only came from the one microphone, however the other sounded rather normal. I have a feeling the microphone may be bad, however I don't want to ask the person to re-do the testimonial because other than the audio, it turned out amazing.
I've tried noise reduction as well as a few other fixes found here: viewtopic.php?t=63991

Is this audio ruined due to a bad mic or is there a way I can clean it up and remove these distortions?

Thanks yall
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Re: Distorted Noise from Single Microphone Audio

Post by jademan » Fri Feb 12, 2021 1:47 pm

Renegade7 wrote:
Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:19 pm
We were doing an office testimonial and sadly one of the microphones spit out audio with this weird distortion. It only came from the one microphone, however the other sounded rather normal. I have a feeling the microphone may be bad, however I don't want to ask the person to re-do the testimonial because other than the audio, it turned out amazing.
I've tried noise reduction as well as a few other fixes found here: viewtopic.php?t=63991

Is this audio ruined due to a bad mic or is there a way I can clean it up and remove these distortions?

Thanks yall
I took at look at this recording and applied the following effects in this order:
1) High pass Filter: 100Hzm 24dB per Octave
2) Select audio from about .2 to .8; Noise Reducion: Get Noise Profile
3) Select all; Noise Reducion: OK
4) Select audio from about 2.4 to 3.0; Get Noise Profile
5) Keeping same audio selected; Noise Reducion: OK
6) Select all; Amplify

I hope this helps. :D

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Re: Distorted Noise from Single Microphone Audio

Post by Renegade7 » Fri Feb 12, 2021 4:37 pm

jademan wrote:
Fri Feb 12, 2021 1:47 pm
Renegade7 wrote:
Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:19 pm
We were doing an office testimonial and sadly one of the microphones spit out audio with this weird distortion. It only came from the one microphone, however the other sounded rather normal. I have a feeling the microphone may be bad, however I don't want to ask the person to re-do the testimonial because other than the audio, it turned out amazing.
I've tried noise reduction as well as a few other fixes found here: viewtopic.php?t=63991

Is this audio ruined due to a bad mic or is there a way I can clean it up and remove these distortions?

Thanks yall
I took at look at this recording and applied the following effects in this order:
1) High pass Filter: 100Hzm 24dB per Octave
2) Select audio from about .2 to .8; Noise Reducion: Get Noise Profile
3) Select all; Noise Reducion: OK
4) Select audio from about 2.4 to 3.0; Get Noise Profile
5) Keeping same audio selected; Noise Reducion: OK
6) Select all; Amplify

I hope this helps. :D
IMMENSELY. I didn't even think about zooming into those .5 second areas. That definitely cleaned up the entire clip. The other speaker is a lot louder now, so I'll keep working at it.

Thank you so much

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Re: Distorted Noise from Single Microphone Audio

Post by jademan » Sat Feb 13, 2021 12:24 am

Renegade7 wrote:
Fri Feb 12, 2021 4:37 pm
IMMENSELY. I didn't even think about zooming into those .5 second areas. That definitely cleaned up the entire clip. The other speaker is a lot louder now, so I'll keep working at it.

Thank you so much
:D You are welcome. Thanks for the report back. :D

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