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December 14, 2018
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Bg noise to high and loud than the vocal to change

  • December 14, 2018
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Hello guys,

I am pretty sure this topic has been beaten to death already, and there is a simple fix for it, but I failed to make a perfect clean up for the audio. I have an audio, with one person speaking but the bg noise is sooooo loud and his voice is so low, I could barely make any changes without not altering his voice. As you can imagine, it sounded robotic and alienish.

Here is the original audio

IWC6 AUDIO - YouTube

I would appreciate it so much if you guys would tell me some of the steps you guys take when dealing with such audio!

Thanks you guys!

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 14, 2018

The background noise is pretty constant - you can reduce this simply either by using the Noise Reduction (process) effect, or you could try with the DeNoise effect - I'm reasonably sure that either of these will improve the situation. If you use the process effect, do more than a single pass, and don't try to take too much out in one go. Also note that since this is primarily a hiss you are removing, you should set the FFT size to a high setting before taking a noise sample.

ryclark
Participating Frequently
December 14, 2018

Sounds like the audio was recorded at much to low a level in the first place. Hence bringing up the level of the voice also increases the noise. First rule of Noise Reduction is, I'm afraid, record audio at correct level.