Trouble reducing outside noise. Actor sounds too echoey.

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September 4, 2018
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Hi. I'm not sure how to remove the white noise outside sounds from my audio. I selected the area in between the actors voice in Audition (which is just solid snow from red to purple) and either nothing happens because the removal level is too low OR I remove too much and the actor sound like they are in a concert hall instead of on an outdoor tennis court! Is there a trick to this?

I have uploaded my two audio files onto dropbox if you'd like to listen:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dykygee1x0nzb7p/AABn76fcLKq5DA3vPguvYia8a?dl=0

If you can let me know what steps to use (dumb it down) then I can apply it to other files also. I'd appreciate anyone's expertise!

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Correct answer SteveG_AudioMasters_

Reducing the hiss somewhat would be possible, but you'd still be left with a terrible-sounding file, as the hiss will have drowned out any ambience at all. Essentially this is unfixable.

The original sounds as though there is something seriously wrong with the recording - this sounds like equipment failure, almost. How did you make it?

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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Reducing the hiss somewhat would be possible, but you'd still be left with a terrible-sounding file, as the hiss will have drowned out any ambience at all. Essentially this is unfixable.

The original sounds as though there is something seriously wrong with the recording - this sounds like equipment failure, almost. How did you make it?

ChrisArtistScreenNameAuthor

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Hi Steve,

You helped me remove the singing bugs from my files, so thanks for that. I agree these are terrible sounding files. I recorded them 3 or 4 years ago so I'm not sure why these clips are so different from other clips that I recorded on a different day. Possibly there was more wind? Or maybe I had the mic angled differently that day? Not sure because I used the same equipment every time. I wonder if my recording level was just too low that day.

Thanks for answering so quickly.

Christine

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Chrisflashhelp wrote
Hi Steve,
Possibly there was more wind? Or maybe I had the mic angled differently that day? Not sure because I used the same equipment every time. I wonder if my recording level was just too low that day.

No, there's something else going on there. The basic background hiss level is much too high, and it's continuous - not wind noise. It's almost as though you had a mic preamp that's turned right down, and a gain stage after it set much higher to compensate for that. This would be the classic case for that much hiss... that or a malfunctioning mic.

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