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November 17, 2022
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Pops not going away!

  • November 17, 2022
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I'm trying to edit some audio but i've tried every solution to get rid of the popping sounds (p's and t's) and i was able to get rid of some but not all.. if someone could help me that would be appreciated. attached is the audio that im trying to fix.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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November 18, 2022

Most of the major noises are low-frequency sort of 'graunch' sounds and as such they are not going to be isolated by any automated process. Rolling the bass off doesn't help much, and the only way I've managed to reduce some of them is by isolating the offending noise using the spectral display (with care and zooming in, the parts of the spectrum that are causing the noises become obvious) reduce their level by using the HUD to simply attenuate them a lot. But because they aren't all the same, you have to go through them individually, and some you simply won't be able to treat at all because it will also remove the wanted part of the sound.

 

It's well worth taking steps to avoid this in the first place. The two obvious things here are to use a decent pop filter, and get a couple of inches further away from the mic! It's much better to under-record and boost the level a bit afterwards than have to deal with the fallout from overloads. The other thing that will frequently make these sorts of issues worse is over-processing; any attempt at limiting the dynamics to make things sound 'louder' invariably makes the lower-level artifacts louder and more intrusive.

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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November 18, 2022

Should perhaps add that the reason it's very difficult to remove the sounds completely is that most of them - even the pops - have quite high levels of transient sound at the start of them. If you attenuate these too much, you can end up creating another transient from the noise around them, which can often make things sound worse rather than better. What this means is that with some of these sounds, you'll need to experiment with the outline of what you are removing. However you look at it, the spectral view is going to be your friend here.