Need help removing microphone buzz

[StitchedCinema]

Evening gurus. I was told to come here to seek guidance on removing the buzz from a hot mic. I recently filmed a wedding and the DJ's mice was a bit too hot during the fathers toast and welcome speech. I did test with the DJ prior to the toasts, set my range, etc, had no issues. Come toast, I could hear how hot the speakers were while standing there and I knew I was in for some fun when I got home and listened to the DJ's line. Sure enough, hot mic.

I did Lav the brides father too, but guess what...he pulled the mic out of the recorder by accident as he decided he wanted to wrap the cord around the recorder and shove it into his pocket, thus making the line taught without my knowledge. So, I'm stuck with the DJ's line for decent audio that isn't something from our cameras or Videomic's.

I am hoping there is a solution to this conundrum in this group!

I have put the .wav and .pkf files in my dropbox. Just a 14mb wav.

Dropbox - Dad's Toast

Hopefully someone is able to offer some guidance or some help!

Thank you again and have an excellent evening.

Stitched Cinema

[emmrecs · Accepted solution]

Hi.

I downloaded your file and did some "tests" on how it might be improved!

I opened it in AA CC and set up the effects rack with iZotope RX6 Advanced "Spectral Denoise" and "Declipper".  For the former I selected a brief passage with no speech and had the denoiser learn the noise; for the declipper I had to set the threshold quite "low", somewhere around -6dB.

The result is far from perfect but, if you'd like to listen you can download it here.

However, I realise that if you don't have RX6, or access to it, you will need to use just the noise reduction process in AA; I think it is licensed from iZotope but is not nearly as flexible as that in the full RX6.

Hopefully, this might give you some ideas!

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

One thing you can do with this is run the declipper on it, but it's not going to make that much difference, I'm afraid. Experimenting with the settings may yield a slightly better result, but it's only going to be a marginal improvement, at best. Distortion is what it is - with no reference point for what should have been there, and accurate fix is impossible. That said, running the deEsser improved the overall sound a bit, as did removing everything below 80Hz, which cut out most of the breath noises.