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megabuff
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improve sound quality

Post by megabuff » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:08 am

Hi Guys

i have a clip of my daughter when she was young, copied from my answering machine onto my Zoom H4N.

i have improved it some what using the noise removal.

just wondering if any of the gurus could suggest further improvements.

Thanks

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4hyksjyj4oiz3 ... v.wav?dl=0
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Re: improve sound quality

Post by kozikowski » Mon Jun 20, 2016 3:39 pm

I can get a little more out of it. Attached.

I can send you the equalization curve.

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Re: improve sound quality

Post by kozikowski » Mon Jun 20, 2016 3:43 pm

EmEq.XML attached. Download and install it in Effect > Equalization.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/equalization.html

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Re: improve sound quality

Post by megabuff » Tue Jun 21, 2016 7:07 am

thanks Koz.

so i would do the noise reduction first? and then the equalisation?
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Re: improve sound quality

Post by kozikowski » Tue Jun 21, 2016 1:52 pm

I don't know you can do noise reduction on this. For noise reduction to work you have to have to be able to find clear noise with no voice. That's going to be rough.

I think I would equalize first. Noise reduction can produce choppy work and make further corrections sound terrible.

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Re: improve sound quality

Post by megabuff » Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:39 am

i had a clear area where there was no talking and so i did the noise reduction.

but i was reading the instructions with your effect (equalization) and i think it said to run the effect first and then noise reduction or maybe the other way around
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Re: improve sound quality

Post by kozikowski » Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:31 am

See which one sounds best. You're not in "sound sweetening" now. You're in disaster recovery, so there are no rules.

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Re: improve sound quality

Post by Gale Andrews » Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:02 pm

I think EQ is best done after Noise Reduction http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nois ... .html#Tips.


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