Questions tagged [noise-reduction]

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Reducing Noise in Feynman Lectures

There are quite a lot of old Feynman lecture recordings on YouTube, that unfortunately suffer from very noisy audio. I'm not a sound-design professional, hobbyist; in fact I'm quite possibly tone deaf. I am however an engineer, so I had to give it a…
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Noise Reduction when recording changes volume

The person running the mixer (what's the proper term?) had the level too low and changed it during the performance. It appears that he took four seconds to ramp it up. The noise profile is different on the two ends, as shown in the graph below. …
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Getting rid of background noise

There's a lot of background noise with a high pitched whine in this interview I'm trying to work on but I cannot seem to get rid of it with Waves C4 or EQ. They recorded the interview with the Zoom H4n on-board mics..Do you guys or gals have any…
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Noise Removal, Old School

Anybody got any tips on performing noise reduction without using any of the fancy NR tools (iZotope RX, X-Noise, et. al.?). I'm one of those youngsters who has never really had to work without them, so I'm finding myself a bit flummoxed. I'm…
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Bias Tone in Old Film Audio

I'm conforming and repairing a foreign language version of a classic 1941 film. Among it's many problems is an inaudible high frequency tone that screeches when I scrub. Obviously slowing makes it audible. I'm working in Pro Tools. The source is,…
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How to get background conversation in a sound record?

I have a audio file which belongs to a security camera that recorded inside of a cabin. There is a conversation taking place outside of the cabin and I need to get that conversation. Is there a way to do that? Removing background noise via Audacity…
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How can I salvage a live recording taken with an intermittent microphone?

At a recent performance, one of the vocal microphones was connected poorly and the sound recorded (example) contains some noise. As far as I can tell it's basically a lot of clicks as the connection is cutting in and out. I have a recording of the…
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how to apply a denoiser on a noisy scene

I am approaching to a new project, and have one scene very noisy, I splitted tracks, placed correctly roomtone, smoothed the transition,etc etc, ( applyed many john purcell advises) now i need to reduce the overall noise from the whole scene, how…
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Need opinions .. Does the Soundforge Noise Plugin sound good compared to XX ?

Hey SSD crew .. Over the past 2 years I've been making wild sfx / foley recordings. The source is my Sony D50 (D-50). Around a GAIN setting of 5 the self noise becomes annoying. I've been trying to clean these recordings up with the Sony Noise…
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