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Max42
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January 18, 2020
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Decreasing volume of breaths in a podcast without completely removing them

  • January 18, 2020
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The guest's audio track has really loud and unpleasant breathing in sounds, so I want to decrease the volume but not remove them completely, as my concern is that removing breaths completely, it would make the guest sound like a robot.

 

Here's a short sample: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9rltnu8d6w9ken7/Podcast%203.mp3?dl=0

 

It's 90 minutes long recording, so I would prefer not doing this manually but rather using an effect that can do this for me for the whole recording (even if it's not perfect).

 

I can't find a solution on YouTube so hopefully, there is someone that can point me in the right direction here. Thanks!

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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January 19, 2020

You're correct about not wanting to get rid of them completely, even though they are, indeed, pretty intrusive!

 

I tried this using Dynamics Processing set up as a gate, but since the breaths are nearly at the same level as the wanted speech, this simply isn't going to work. The most success I had was with the Sound Remover tool. I sampled one of the mid-range breaths (not the first one in your file - that was too loud) and with a bit of rearrangement of the adjustments available, I got a reasonable degree of reduction of the noise, although it's inevitable that some of it will remain, I'm afraid - those breaths aren't 100% identical.

 

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Max42Author
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January 21, 2020

Just done with the test. Tried sound remover but couldn't get good results - maybe I dont Know how to use it. Had pretty good results with the Noise Reduction process 

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