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Dan7777
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June 18, 2019
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Which is it best way to remove boompole bumps from the recording?

  • June 18, 2019
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Which is it best way to remove boompole bumps from the recording?

I have those dialogues recorded with a boompole for a documentary, and sometimes there are fast bumps, really very low frequencies.

I did various attempts with the "spot healing brush tool" to paint that frequencies but it didn't worked. I mean it works only if the bumps are the the middle of the dialogues (in the pause), but if the bumps are under the dialogue the brush don't works. I tried to change the size of the brush or to zoom into the waweform. "nothing", many hours of attempts, I mean sometimes it works but it's very rare (so I still used to try) but I have to be very lucky).

do you have a better suggestion please?

thx

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    ryclark
    ryclark
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    June 18, 2019

    A lot of the bumps may go if you filter out the low frequencies with one of the EQ effects, try Parametric. Dialogue, even if a male voice, won't contain much very low frequency so you can be quite ruthless in cutting the LF both in terms of level and frequency. You should be able to see where the low frequencies in the speech end and the very LF bumps are in the Spectral Frequency Display.

    Also instead of using the Spot Healing Brush tool try using the Marquee tool to just select around the bright yellow low frequency sound and then Auto Heal to remove it.

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    Dan7777Author
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    June 19, 2019

    Thanks a lot for your help the problem is that often even with the parametric that bumps start from below and go over 100/150hz so I can't really fix it with eq because it will start to eat the males voices, and if I stay below 90hz yes it removes quite a lot of the problem but no 100% of it (it still very annoying).

    I tested the "Marquee Tool" with "Auto Heal" (I like to use ctll+u for fast healing) but in those cases when there is a dialogue line at the same time of the bumps, it's not ebough smart to discern the bumps.

    He react in 2 ways: he do not apply any change; or it eats the voice of the actor.

    if there is not alternative I really wish to make a request to Adobe to improve this feature in future releases. What I ask is that the marquee tool +autoheal or the "spot healing brush tool" may be more effective to discern where the bumps are when there is a dialogue line over them. because it works well during dialogue pauses (on the ambience noise)but it is really bad when people start to talk over the bump.

    ryclark
    ryclark
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    June 19, 2019

    I doubt that there is anything much that Adobe could do to improve the situation where one sound overlaps another in frequency. But it is very difficult to offer the best use advice about Audition's various features without hearing the original defects. So if you like to post a clip of a bit of your affected audio as a .wav file on somewhere like Dropbox or Google Drive we could take a look and see if any of Audition's other tools does a better job.

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