Community, need help - I have tried to fix the sound(sample attached) with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition - but can't find the appropriate filter to make this background noise disappear. Any ideas on how to do it?
MIC used is AT2020 Usb (AudioTechnica) and I might have been too close...
You could try the Audition Waveform editor. Select a section of a second or so with no speaking but with the thumping and other background noises there. Shift-P will capture a noise print, Cmd/Crtl-Shift-P will open the the Noise Reduction (Process) dialog.
You can then select the option in the dialog to "select entire clip" and it will apply a noise reduction to everything based on eliminating the noise it saw in the segment you used to capture the noise print.
You can then adjust how much noise to remove and how low to move the 'removed' noise. I find that typically I can raise the level of how much is removed a bit without problem.
It sounds very much as though whatever is holding the mic isn't fixed in anything like a stable way, hence the clonking noises. Also, this has been recorded in a very reverberant space, and it has a lot of room tone - and that you can't fix at all. As far as the clonking noises are concerned, you can get rid of the vast majority of it by using the High Pass filter in Audition's Parametric EQ, as it's below the speech range of frequencies. For instance, just doing this:
...will get rid of most of it. Because it's not a constant noise, I don't think that NR is going to work very well, if at all, but it's possible that with a lot of experimenting, the sound remover tool might help. I'm a little dubious though, as it's hard to capture a clean sample of the clonking noise.
Ultimately, you need to fix all of this at source so you don't have to do any processing at all. Saves a lot of time!
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